On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Michael Lemberger <[email protected]> wrote: > the westbound traffic so he could cross at his leisure. My current standard > response to these goons is loud, sardonic heckling along the lines of "Oh, > no, you just go ahead. I'll wait here. You just do what feels good and the > rest of us can just go screw ourselves." I think that's something close to > verbatim. It's the wrong thing to do I'm sure (just ask Colin) but frankly > I'm sick of these people—they're a danger to themselves, others, and most > importantly, to me.
It may be the wrong thing, but it feels right sometimes. In Palo Alto, CA, there's a street with a stop sign at every block. It's six blocks long, and you need to traverse it to get to a different bike path. Very few bikers stop; I'm one. One day, I stopped, with signals, and the bicyclist behind me swore, squealed his brakes, cut around me, and blew through. I started up again, passed him, saying "nice stop" and stopped at the next one. This repeated for 2-3 more stops until he finally said "Why do you keep saying that?!" "Because you don't stop." "I don't need to stop! I'm on a bike!" (with much outrage). "Yes, you do." "Well, it slows me down, and it's hard to keep my speed up." "I kept passing you without much effort..." "But I don't need to stop, that's only for cars." "Nope, the law, and that friendly PA police man right there, both say you do. Have a nice day." At the time it was $175 for blowing stops, in a car or on a bike, so I'm pretty sure he didn't really have a nice day. Rich -- Just imagine a really neat quote here _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
