HAY GUYS

Giro0001 · Local time: Nov 20, 2007, 03:23 AM

If someone's doing that then they either can't ride a bike or are stupid.

I ride my bike on the streets at least twice a day to get to and from school, but I am always in a bike lane, on a residential street, or on the 1.5 feet of cement next to the curb (I have cars pass by me all the time, entirely in their lane). So ya, no reason that a biker should be in a lane so far that a car can't pass by the biker in the lane.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Giro0001 · Local time: Nov 20, 2007, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by RainMan

I find that a car is a bit more hazardous than a mailbox. That's just me but perhaps it's just my sense of bias and hatred of all cyclists chiming in...

Personally, I'd take my chances with the mailbox.

I almost died from the stupidity in these sentences. Let me lay this open for everyone.

First let us consider a fictitious situation. Say you were in a room that you couldn't leave, and you were told that if you stayed where you were in the room that you would die and that if you moved to another place you had a .5 chance of dying (that's 50% if you can't handle basic probability theory). What do you do?

I'm not sure about other people, but I personally would move because if I didn't I would have a 1.0 chance of dying, if I do move I would at least have a .5 chance of surviving.

Now let us draw the parallel. I have the choice of biking one foot away from the curb or 2 feet away from the curb. If I bike one foot away from the curb I will hit the mail box. If I bike 2 feet away from the curb I have a minuscule chance that an insane (because of the legal consequences), asshole (because of the nature of the action) of a driver will come and hit me. I'm not sure which one to pick now. Run right into the mail box, or take the 0.0 (if you're a probability idiot, this doesn't mean that it's impossible) chance of getting hit by a car.

I can tell you though, that Rainman would choose to run right into the mailbox.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Giro0001 · Local time: Nov 23, 2007, 02:50 PM

Originally Posted by Devoxycontin

In San Fran they tend to not give a shit about the street lights, then act all pissy when one they're own gets hit. I've lost sympathy for several bikers in that city after Critical Mass and the shit I've seen them pull in front of on-coming traffic. I'm sure there are tolerable ones but the proportion in SF is just tilted towards assholes.

If they go across a red light when there's traffic going the other way then they deserve to be hit.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.