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From: mjl@ritcv.UUCP (Mike Lutz)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Bicycles and Paranoia
Message-ID: <36@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 14:48:01 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 27 14:48:01 1985
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In 3305@utah-cs.UUCP, Peter Badovinatz writes:
> 
> A major problem in finding a solution to this mess was mentioned:  the
> unfathomable hatred many people have for bicycles.  Why is this?
> I don't know, but a part of it may be that some bicyclists are young, somewhat
> unestablishment and very vocal about their "rights" to use the road.  This
> threatens the older, conventional, poorly conditioned types (remember the
> '60's?  Issues different, Framework similar).  The many bicyclists commuting
> to their offices are not so much in the minds of non-bicyclists.

Well, here in Rochester, NY, I (at the ripe old age of 37) have less
trouble with "older, conventional" types than I do with their offspring
trying to impress each other by nudging me into a gutter with Daddy's car.
Could it be that the problem is the magnitude of the age difference, with
the sign of the difference being at best a second order effect?
-- 
Mike Lutz	Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester NY
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