Should we make people pass a cycling/motorcycle test before a drivingtest?

Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!


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WHY THE BANANA REVOLUTION?
(reason #103: because bananas will never be biofuel for cars!)

http://webspawner.com/users/bananarevolution

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
ComandanteBanana wrote:

Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

I've been riding bicycles since I was about 4 and motorcycles since I
was about 10, but I keep crashing my car into other cars because it
won't fit through gaps - I reckon I should drive trucks for a while.

On Oct 10, 4:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Yeah and? You are stating the obvious...tha's why the unwashed masses
wont go for it.

Simply some people should not be driving!

Thankyou Cpt. Obvious.

wrote:
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
ComandanteBanana wrote:

Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

I've been riding bicycles since I was about 4 and motorcycles since I
was about 10, but I keep crashing my car into other cars because it
won't fit through gaps - I reckon I should drive trucks for a while.



LOL....Thats the attitude! More speed before the gaps helps......

On Oct 10, 6:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

I would say a bicycling test once a year in grades 3-10 ages 8-16,
call it pre-drivers education. Then when you are old enough to get a
car drivers license, you just need to learn about cars, you already
know the rules of the road.

In article ,
Mike A Schwab writes:
On Oct 10, 6:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

I would say a bicycling test once a year in grades 3-10 ages 8-16,
call it pre-drivers education. Then when you are old enough to get a
car drivers license, you just need to learn about cars, you already
know the rules of the road.

If you're proceeding in a straight line along a highway,
you have the right to expect nobody will obtrusively
interfere with your line of travel (your ROW.) But they
might, so watch out.

Slower traffic keeps to the right (North America,) allowing
faster traffic to pass on the left.

Unlit intersections are dealt with on a first-come/first
served basis -- if a vehicle or bicycle operator is already
in the intersection, they should be ceded ROW. When crossing
vehicles simultaneously arrive at an intersection, the leftward
vehicle cedes ROW to the rightward vehicle.

When opposing vehicles meet at an intersection and one is going
straight through while the other is making a left turn, the
left-turner should cede ROW to the straight-through vehicle.

These are the rules of the road I learned at age 7.

Since then, i learned that when you're riding your bike on
the streets & roads you can be as law-abiding as all get-out,
and you won't get credit for being some kind of traffic saint.

There are no traffic saints.

So there are no holds barred.


cheers,
Tom

--
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

On Oct 10, 4:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

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WHY THE BANANA REVOLUTION?
(reason #103: because bananas will never be biofuel for cars!)

http://webspawner.com/users/bananarevolution

Oh, it's the ****ing idiot again. Take your cross-posting ****
elsewhere.

In article
,
"Road Glidin' Don" wrote:

On Oct 10, 4:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a
cycling/motorcycle test and if they fail that test they won't have
a chance with the driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a
few cones with a bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are
bound to be cyclists or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

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-------* ----- WHY THE BANANA REVOLUTION? (reason #103: because
bananas will never be biofuel for cars!)

http://webspawner.com/users/bananarevolution

Oh, it's the ****ing idiot again. Take your cross-posting ****
elsewhere.

I only see posts form this idiot when someone responds to him (like
you). Put him in your killfile, life is much too short to waste telling
trolls to shut up.

On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:41:48 -0500, Tim McNamara
wrote:

In article
,
"Road Glidin' Don" wrote:

On Oct 10, 4:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote:
Case in point is how we should make people pass a
cycling/motorcycle test and if they fail that test they won't have
a chance with the driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a
few cones with a bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are
bound to be cyclists or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

--------------------------------------------------------------------
-------* ----- WHY THE BANANA REVOLUTION? (reason #103: because
bananas will never be biofuel for cars!)

http://webspawner.com/users/bananarevolution

Oh, it's the ****ing idiot again. Take your cross-posting ****
elsewhere.

I only see posts form this idiot when someone responds to him (like
you). Put him in your killfile, life is much too short to waste telling
trolls to shut up.

**** off and follow your own advice.

On Oct 11, 12:23*am, Mike A Schwab wrote:
On Oct 10, 6:03*pm, ComandanteBanana
wrote: Case in point is how we should make people pass a cycling/motorcycle
test and if they fail that test they won't have a chance with the
driving test! Why? Because it's better to knock a few cones with a
bicycle, than with a car, where those cones are bound to be cyclists
or pedestrians in real life.

Simply some people should not be driving!

I would say a bicycling test once a year in grades 3-10 ages 8-16,
call it pre-drivers education. *Then when you are old enough to get a
car drivers license, you just need to learn about cars, you already
know the rules of the road.

By the way, http://www.bikelib.org/ has a good 2007 rules of the road
video, free to watch or burn to CD.
A 1963 movie is on http://www.youtube.com/ and seach for 'One Got
Fat'.