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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Rank-ordering nuisances
Message-ID: <334@ihu1g.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-May-84 17:22:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 17:22:55 1984
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I've put together a list of the top ten nuisances for bicyclists
coming from my own personal experience.  Can anybody else comment
or come up with new ones?

1) Motor Vehicles:

	a) Carloads of teenage punks -- invariably harass rider.
	b) Trucks, especially when driven by ill-tempered rednecks.
	c) Geriatric drivers -- slow down and follow you.
	d) Drivers who *insist* on honking the horn, no matter
	   how much room they have.

2) Kids playing in the street.
3) Joggers with headset radios on the bike paths.
4) Glass and debris on the pavement.
5) Bugs sticking in clothes and hair.
6) Potholes and rough pavement.
7) Dogs.
8) Horses on the bike paths.
9) Road dirt in the chain.
10) Water on the pavement.

This is the top ten for me, in decreasing order of obnoxiousness.
Can anybody add? Change?  I'd be interested in knowing if others
have about the same opinion as I do.  I'm particularly interested
in my number 1 nuisance, 1a.  Is this a universal phenomenon, or
local to this area? Or is it me?

I'm also interested in possible solutions.  I built an extremely loud
horn which takes care of joggers and draws attention to my salute to
horn-honking motorists, and I try to keep my chain clean.  Also, I
use tire savers, which seem to prevent most of the punctures you can
get from small particles of glass.  However, These are only partial
solutions.
-- 

                               Bob Fishell
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