For one part, this speaks volumes for having a bike mirror. It provides the security of being able to monitor what drivers approaching from behind are up to. I feel more naked than a Portlander without one.
Also, when I was a lad in Summit County, Colorado, biking on narrow-shouldered busy highways to go hiking or trout fishing, some rednecks in a pickup yelled at me to get off the road. Whereupon my equally redneck dad gave me a huge revolver to wear in a shoulder holster over my clothes on my left shoulder, where motorists would see it clearly. It was (and I believe still is, there) as legal as having a rifle on your truck cab rack. Curiously, no one ever harassed me again. Jeff Schimpff "Bus, Bike, Walk or Carpool to Work for Clean Air for Kids" (*) phone: (608) 267- 7853 (*) fax: (608) 267-5231 (*) e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robbie Webber Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Bikies] Ugly incident last night on Speedway We are fairly lucky in Madison that these types of incidents don't happen very often. I rarely hear about intentional harassment of bicyclists, besides the standard, "Get off the street/Get on the path!" or honking and one finger salutes. But last night, an obviously well-equipped bicyclist was grabbed from a moving van. Anyone with information, please contact the police. http://www.cityofmadison.com/wsc/pdpress.wsc/ReleaseDetails.html?release Num=8637 -- Robbie Webber Bicycle Friendly Communities Coordinator Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin www.bfw.org 608-251-4456 (office) 608-233-1390 (home) _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
