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175 c_yonts2 Offline Send Email Sep 2, 2000
1:22 am
Anyone have any good motorist rage stories?<br><br>In my part of the world (SF Bay Area) crazed motorists get particularly indignant when they encounter ...
176 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 2, 2000
2:13 pm
You all sound like the coolest family!! I salute you for having what it takes to simplify your lives with bicycles and live better!! My life is very similar...
177 rick_p26 Offline Send Email Sep 2, 2000
7:12 pm
We've had a few bad ones in Ohio this last week:<br> A man was kileed after disturbing a motorist(<br>apparently he rode thru a stop sign, and the...
178 tommerr69 Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
4:50 am
Ahh.. The Bay area, so well known as the "birthplace" of the mountain bike and the locus of 'bike kulture' but there are so many millions of the majority who...
179 srpennell Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
1:40 pm
I think the government should get more involved in biking. Why can't mail deliverers use bikes to deliver mail? Maybe that's just too fast and efficient for...
180 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
2:50 pm
I encounter all the same things on a daily basis too, and am hard up for an answer. Several times a week I am screamed at to "get on the sidewalk where I ...
181 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
2:58 pm
By the way, I posted two new photos in the photo section. Just showing off my bicycle trailer hard at work again. This time hauling music gear and stuff to a...
182 c_yonts2 Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
6:03 pm
Just be careful! That's the bottom line. <br><br>Motorists will take it to the limit, and that limit seems to be a cyclist's death....
183 c_yonts2 Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
6:08 pm
Hi again, everybody!!!<br><br>Anyone know if the Bike Brain ( <a href=http://www.bikebrain.com target=new>http://www.bikebrain.com</a> ) will work with a...
184 c_yonts2 Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
6:53 pm
Here are a few EXCELLENT comic strips from a serious bike activist: Ken Avidor's ROADKILL BILL!<br><br><a href=http://www.roadkillbill.com/...
185 c_yonts2 Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
9:33 pm
Good news to any Visor owners out there...Email from Bike Brain tech. support:<br><br>Hi Chris,<br><br>The Visor version is in the works - give it about a ...
186 tommerr69 Offline Send Email Sep 5, 2000
9:54 pm
they might actuslly smile....<br><br>tom...
187 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 6, 2000
3:16 am
You got a response from someone's tech support?!?!? I hope you bought a lottery ticket too!! lol<br><br><br>Happy trials!<br><br>Marc...
188 cirkus_cirkus Offline Send Email Sep 6, 2000
8:03 pm
Anyone here had the displeasure of being the moving target of some car protected douche bag who thinks they're being funny by spitting at you or throwing a...
189 Dolo724 Offline Send Email Sep 6, 2000
9:27 pm
yeh, one day last year I was riding home and got whapped! in the head by a sandwich from a trolling Chevy Nova. He was trying to hit me and slowed down to make...
190 kf4cln Offline Send Email Sep 6, 2000
11:06 pm
I too have had smart assed comments and too close for comfort brush bys.<br>What I usally do is catch them and make a comment<br>similar too " man ! you are ...
191 tommerr69 Offline Send Email Sep 7, 2000
7:06 am
Now, I LIKE that suggestion. I'll try that tomorrow- its getting to be about a week or so since the last incident.......
192 tommerr69 Offline Send Email Sep 7, 2000
7:17 am
Dos this count?:<br>In 1989, I was hit in the head (no helmet) with a Big Gulp at 45MPH at 9:30pm in the late summer. We did not finger them, or yell before or...
193 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 7, 2000
3:03 pm
Mea Culpa mea maxima culpa!!...
194 LadyArwyn Offline Send Email Sep 7, 2000
3:19 pm
So what happened? Did any of thies go to court, or did minister-daddy get them off because "obviously the bicyclists were trying to lure them into the devil's...
195 astro2000_1999 Offline Send Email Sep 8, 2000
12:20 am
Hey all. I am new to bike commuting. Way more fun than by car. My ride is in The Washington DC area (Maryland). My commute is about 22 miles round trip. I have...
196 vfetzer37 Offline Send Email Sep 8, 2000
6:34 pm
Sheesh! Reading your guys' posts about being hit with missiles by passing motorists makes my experiences with little old ladies on the recreation path seem...
197 rick_p26 Offline Send Email Sep 12, 2000
9:18 am
Got a different one for you. I was riding to work Friday morning when my headlight batteries died. As I crossed over the canal, a deer came at me at an angle. ...
198 astro2000_1999 Offline Send Email Sep 12, 2000
1:09 pm
Wow, that was a close call! I came to within about 15 feet of a deer while riding a trail once. She didn't move right away, so I waited. This is about the time...
199 srpennell Offline Send Email Sep 12, 2000
1:25 pm
Bike riding certainly isn't tame, is it? A few months ago, I had just cleared the summit of Round Mountain (a local landmark) when I came face to face with a...
200 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 12, 2000
4:49 pm
Hey Astro...good thing you weren't wearing your deer costume!! lol<br><br>and yes....cars ARE for wimps...
201 astro2000_1999 Offline Send Email Sep 12, 2000
5:32 pm
I'll take on a deer anyday over a beer chugging slob driving a mid 80's three tone rusted Chevy Blazer. Deer are not as obtuse!...
202 srpennell Offline Send Email Sep 13, 2000
4:38 am
My bike was stolen today. I am soooo saaaad....
203 glennboulder Offline Send Email Sep 13, 2000
6:25 am
My heart sank when I read this....I am truly sorry. I've had two bikes stolen and felt raped both times. To steal someone else's property is the lowest form of...
204 rick_p26 Offline Send Email Sep 13, 2000
9:30 am
Sorry to hear about your bike. Probably some kid who took it for a joyride and threw it down somewhere. I've had mine stolen also and know how it feels. People...
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