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This thread ain't about me, Paul.

You want to see how absolute that is, ask him if he'll be filing a claim for his medical bills with his own insurance company. Since it was his fault and eveything.

I just got back from my morning ride. I passed a bunch of people walking on the trail. Came up behind 'em, slowed down and let 'em know I was coming, and passed 'em on the left with no hit pedestrians, injuries, or conflagrations.

Every single one of 'em was either already walking over to the right or moved over when they heard me coming.

It ain't rocket science.

Toward the end of yesterday's ride, I stood an hammered to cross a road. When I did, I heard a loud metallic noise. A quick look didn't reveal anything wrong. Today, about 12 miles into my ride I discerned a bit of thump. A glance at the back wheel showed pronounced wobble. I found the source of yesterday's metallic noise. When you are cranking out serious quadpower, things can break.

It's almost as if some people think it costs money to pay attention.

lolol

Easy smokepole, there's only room for one gay cyclist on this forum. You're getting dangerously close to Paul's turf.
I feel a turf war coming on.

Ripped spandex, hair pulling, subtle dick grabbing, oh the humanity.

LOL, I've seen those and the dick grabbing ain't subtle!!

But oh man, what is that helmet you're wearing in your avatar, I gotta get me one of those!!


PS, I don't think Paul is really gay, he just says that stuff because he craves all the positive reinforcement that comes with being a gay cyclist on here.

How do you like my new shorts?

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That story is almost as exciting as a new bicycle.

LOL

Nonsense.

You began with.....


I gotta presume that if I had written that you’d call me a “Karen”.

I wrote....


Yepper, I don’t agree that people merely out enjoying a walk are supposed to worry about cyclists. Should be the other way around and, by law, it is.

Anyhoo.... you got offended and went to personal insults and then puzzlingly wrote as a counter argument pretty much exactly what I would do


If I wrote this I gotta assume you would call me “self righteous” etc....

Among motorcyclists there’s a truism.. “It ain’t IF you’re going down, but when.”

Indeed, I got lucky and somehow walked away from my big motorcycle wreck, no helmet and all. A good friend nearly lost a leg in his, suffers chronic pain and now has to keep a cane handy.

I think cycling on the road is far more dangerous than on a motorcycle, you will post stats showing that it isn’t, but having put in many miles on both I know how many close calls there’s been.

On a road bike it ain’t if you’re getting hit but when. Getting killed out there is a real possibility but at this point in my life, that ain’t the worst possibility.

Texting driver scenario? Yep if I hadn’t been out there on a bicycle I wouldn’t have gotten hit. Drunk driver etc etc... no me, no bicycle, I wouldn’t have gotten hit (the ‘Fire would say the exact same thing )

Some years back my own family suffered a tragedy in a large part because of someone’s error in judgement. Coulda sued, was encouraged to, didn’t. It wasn’t intentional and suing would not have brung that person back. Suing ain’t what we do.

Would I sue? Actually prob'ly not.

YMMV

Do you subscribe to the same "always my fault" irrespective of the mode of transportation?

Are all modes of transportation the same?

People merely out enjoying a walk on a trail where they're outnumbered by cyclists 2:1 don't have to worry about cyclists as long as they keep their head out of their ass and themselves over to the right so the bikes can pass.

It's called "common sense."

It's funny that you think it's always your fault if an automobile hits you while you're on the road ("by law it's not") but a pedestrian on a trail used primarily by cyclists can do anything they want including jump in front of a bike and if they get hit it's the cyclist's fault.

It's called common sense. Get some.

It also implies that bicycles have the right of way and not pedestrians. Pedestrians having to limit their travel for the convenience of the cyclists.


If the cyclists were not traveling at speeds that were likely to result in injury to one or both parties while passing said pedestrians this would not be an issue.

In reality the speed that the majority of cyclists fly by pedestrians on hike/bike paths is one of the reasons cyclists are disliked by so many.

JMHO

In terms of their legal status on the road, yes.

I was trying to determine if you used logic to arrive at your philosophy. It is becoming obvious that you didn't.

Is it logical to assume that “legal status” makes all modes of transportation the same?

WTF does being the same have to do with fault in a collision?

It's okay if your logic is "just because." I simply wanted to know how you arrived at your belief.

When bicyclists fight, there will be scratches.

LOL