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From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Bicycles - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 22-Oct-83 23:54:49 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 22 23:54:49 1983
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uicsl!wombat    Oct 21 13:21:00 1983

The dangerous bikers are the guys zipping along, stopping for nothing,
riding ten-speeds with their hands in their pockets. There are an awful
lot of them around. The dangerous cars are the ones that speed up to pass
a bike, then cut in front of said bike to make a right turn (no turn
signal, of course) at an intersection with no stop sign or light. There
aren't that many of these around, just enough to make bike riders
real paranoid about cars. Oddly enough, the two hazard groups never
seem to meet each other...
Then there's the battle between people who follow the letter of the law
(absolutely everything must come to a full stop at every stop sign) and
people who understand and follow the spirit of a law (the whole idea of
a stop sign is to prevent accidents, and if there's no traffic in sight,
why stop?). I suppose it depends on how much intelligence you credit
the average citizen with.
						Wombat
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