PSA on doorings: check your mirrors:
dgraber460 at aol.com
dgraber460 at aol.com
Sun Sep 27 13:14:31 PDT 2009
It would be great if we could all just get along, but in the meantime
That would be great! Really great.
However most of the posts to this thread have been of the "it's my right and no matter how many people I piss off I'll do it anyway".
Doesn't exactly sound like a recipe for that to happen.
Dennis
Denver
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com>
To: quattro at audifans.com
Sent: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 1:47 pm
Subject: re: PSA on doorings: check your mirrors:
As a motorcyclist you should understand that while your safety is indeed
your business, others around you can either help or hurt in the quest to
ride without getting killed.
To your point #3, that's simply wrong for anybody but little children (who
are better off somewhere else). The speed differential is too great when
traffic moves in opposite directions and virtually nobody counsels riding
against traffic anymore.
On a side street where traffic is doing 30 mph, I'm doing 20. A car can slow
down and wait for a safe place to pass. If I'm coming at them, they can't.
To your point #4, with almost 35 years of paying road, excise and income
taxes, I've paid my fair share of construction and maintenance costs. Am I
supposed to ride in the grass when I choose to bike to work rather than use
a finite resource to fuel my car? Perhaps it's the cars that should be
relegated to the shoulder!
I ride to keep myself safe. If it means taking the full lane and slowing a
car behind me so that you don't try to squeeze by, I will. I may give you
the finger, but I will also report you to the local authorities for
aggressive driving.
Some drivers seem to be personally angered by the sight of a cyclist. I
think it has less to do with being delayed by 8 nanoseconds or
inconvenienced in having to lift their foot off the gas, and more that the
cyclist looks like he or she is having fun, or maybe is doing something that
reminds the driver of an earlier age. And I think this pisses them off.
It would be great if we could all just get along, but in the meantime, I'll
continue to ride with my rear view mirror, my cellphone and a can of Halt
dog spray.
Lee
MXHOWES at aol.com writes:
3. A hole bunch of years ago, when I was a little boy, we were told to
ride on the wrong side of the street, that way you saw the cars coming and
got
out of their way.
4. I have an issue with a lot of the bicycle riders on the open road. They
ride like they own the road yet don't pay a nickel for the construction or
maintenance. The don't ride on
the paved shoulder (too many rocks= flat
tires) so their 'lane' is the white stripe that denotes the shoulder. This
makes it very tight if a car happens to be passing you at the same time.
Generally, I lay on the horn, they flip me the bird, and both of us are
happy.
5. When I went to college the only means of transportation I could afford
was a small motorcycle. Several years of daily commutes in the LA area
taught you that sixth sense to understand that every car, whether or not
being
driven was a potential trip to the hospital. This ends up making you a much
better driver. Also owning a '69 Lotus Europa (with the biggest blind spots
of any car on the road) taught you to know the location of every car
around you, at all times.
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