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From: mark@hp-pcd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: bikes and cars - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 24-Sep-83 03:56:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 24 03:56:10 1983
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#R:hplabsc:-137400:hp-kirk:7100028:000:835
hp-kirk!mark    Sep 22 10:01:00 1983

I sympathize with Anne's flame but I have to believe that she is
living a very dangerous life.  It is true that a driver should
yield to the bicycle in many common driving situations.  It is
fact that they do not (in general).  It is likely that the driver
who was attempting to pass Anne did not come that close to
causing two deaths because if indeed the car had been unable to
get back behind the bicycle when confronted with an impending
head-on, the result would have been one scratched up car, one
mangled bicycle, and one death.  As much as it ought to be
otherwise, a bicyclist who insists on taking their right-of-way
is a bicyclist who is not likely to live long.

                                        Mark Rowe
                                        hp-cvd!mark
                                        Corvallis, Oregon