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From: tjhuguen@uok.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Bikes & cars - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 00:05:58 EDT
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uok!tjhuguen    Oct 12 09:17:00 1983

/***** uok:net.bicycle / arizona!rogerh /  6:01 pm  Sep 27, 1983 */
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
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