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cars get the lion's share
Daryl Hunt wrote:
"Bill Baka" wrote in message The idea is to relax at the mid-point of an 80 mile ride. Besides, since the radio only takes about 1.5 watts at full volume and the solar panel puts out about 250ma at 6 volts it works just fine. Pedaling for less than 1 watt is a tad ridiculous. Riding is riding, and relaxing is laying on the grass, listening to the waterfall and the radio, with the radio being optional. Bill Baka I know, Bill. I was poking fun at some. I can handle that. Bill |
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cars get the lion's share
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"Paul Hovnanian P.E." writes: Who said anything about speeding? If a cyclist impedes more than 5 vehicles, that's a violation. Not necessarily. Are you sure there isn't a proviso in that legislation that says the slow moving vehicle may proceed until the first opportunity to /safely/ allow following traffic to overtake, if it's built-up to five or more following vehicles? There's the link right below. I saw no such proviso, but you are welcome to search for it. Okay, I did follow your link: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=46.61.427 and it says: "On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a slow moving vehicle, behind which five or more vehicles are formed in a line, shall turn off the roadway wherever sufficient area for a safe turn-out exists, in order to permit the vehicles following to proceed. As used in this section a slow moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place." Note the part about "sufficient area for a safe turn-out." Sometimes self-interested car drivers try to disguise themselves as cyclists. The results of their thrashings and wailings and nashing of teeth are amusing. Like now. And sometimes cyclists don't want to get killed due to the road rage that those seeking to make political statements incite. "Incite", eh? As in: "She was just /asking/ for it?" If you want to be taken seriously, you are going to have to quit acting like children. How so? Do you mean by exercising one's rights to use the road despite not being motorized? If so, how is that childish? Nobody is going to invest millions of dollars into infastructure to coddle law breakers (other than prisons that is). FWIW I, unlike certain autoholics, don't want or need millions of dollars of infrastructure or political statements. The infrastructure and the politics are already in place for us cyclists. All we need is for some self-interested, selfish people to stop trying to impede our due access to them. Tell ya what -- I'll leave you to your own pitard. But I sure hope you don't represent too many drivers. -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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