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Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!rogerh@arizona.UUCP (Roger Hayes)
From: rogerh@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Bikes & cars
Message-ID: <4936@arizona.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Sep-83 19:01:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 27 19:01:26 1983
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Some thoughts about bikes and cars:

Bikes and cars can co-exist happily.  I have personal proof.  I rode my
heavily-loaded touring bike through the busiest intersection in London
(Hyde Park Corner) around 4 PM once.  I was much less scared than I have
been many times in the States, because British drivers are polite to
bikes.  (After all, it might be their Dad.)  This is true even though they
are hell-on-wheels to other cars.

Even though you do everything right, you're in some danger on American
streets.  I've been run into by a car AFTER (I thought) I made eye contact
with the driver.  I've been brushed by teenage jerks who thought it was
fun to play chicken with a defenseless cyclist.  Sometimes I'm tempted to
carry a shotgun.

One thing big, heavy locks are good for is breaking windshields.  I've
never done this, but it's a jolly fantasy.

The faster I ride, the less trouble I have with cars.   I think they think
I'm serious.

	Roger Hayes
	{lotsa places}!arizona!rogerh