JoeyBike responds to an anti-bike rant
2. Make up your mind. Do you want me out of your way, or do you want me to stop for every red light? I can't do both. If I safely run the red lights, you will only see me one time as I disappear over the horizon. If I stop for every one, you will be stuck behind me light after light after light until you can safely pass with 3 feet to spare. In short, you will NEVER get past me Downtown if I stop for the lights.
3. Not only are cyclists in better shape than your Classic Rock arse, but they probably own cars, trucks, and SUVs too and generally, according to certain statistics, are well educated (i.e., smarter than the average DJ) and in a higher income bracket. No doubt most adult cyclists pay more local road taxes than a lowly Rock Jock or the caller driving a dump truck.
4. People disobey traffic laws. Nearly ever driver on the road - car, motorcycle, SUV, whatever - breaks the law. Why single out cyclists. Roll through right-on-red, roll through stop signs, stopping in crosswalks, driving drunk, texting, speeding - especially on interstate highways, illegal lane change, no signal turns and lane change.....I saw ALL of that just today. Do I want to "get all Grand Theft Auto" on every motorist out there. Well...sadly...YES I do.
5. Why do I have a right to be on public roadways and where does my arrogance (at times) come from? Because when I am on a bike, and you are in your ego-structured carbon-belching ecological bomb tin crap junk vehicle, I simply have more right to be on Earth than you do. http://www.bikeforums.net/showpost.php?p=9481717&postcount=22
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