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From: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
Message-ID: <735@mako.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Apr-85 17:47:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: mako.735
Posted: Sun Apr 28 17:47:26 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Apr-85 07:12:31 EDT
References: <1290@watdcsu.UUCP> <1093@hound.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@mako.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Summary: 

In article <1093@hound.UUCP> llfe@hound.UUCP (L.FENG) writes:
>Reasons why you shouldn't pass cars on the right at a light:
>
>You are breaking traffic regulations

Traffic regulations vary.  I've never heard of this being outlawed.
(thou considering the idiots that make the laws I'm sure that
virtually *everything* is illegal somewhere)

>You are unecessarily creating hostility towards other cyclists

Passing cars in the 'bike lane' (read: 'shoulder' in most places :-(   )
should be no different than cars passing other cars when there
are multiple car-lanes.

>You give motorists an excuse to run you off the road

Sorry, Woodstock, passing someone is *not* an excuse for them
to run you off the road.

>You may get run over by someone turning right

Not if you're alert.

>It is difficult to see you and an unexpected move
>   therefore it is harder for the auto driver to avoid having an accident

"unexpected move" ??   I always thought it was standard procedure.
Bicycles are not that difficult to see.  (At least in daylight, nighttime
is another matter.)  If I (in a car) pass a bike, and shortly later
have to stop for a light, I assume that the bike is probably going
to repass me, and try to leave a little extra room.  If I'm going to turn,
I check to see where the bike is first.  (yes, I know the typical
egocentric bicycles-don't-exists type in the 'lectra 225s don't think this
way. Watch out for 'em!)

Snoopy
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