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Originally Posted by bikiola
careful, the fools in this forum simply hate political organization of cyclists and wish every cyclist would wait patiently in traffic country until cars moved, red-sea-like, out of their way.

I just don't like it because the cagers have as much a right to the road as we do, yet some CMs make it a habit to interfere with that right, through blocking intersections, runnign lights, etc.

Like I have iterated a million+1+man+dog times... CM in concept is great, but in practice is a massive fustercluck. It doesn't make any point to these people, as they are getting too angry to catch the point.

Plus, do you carry any advocacy fliers or anything similar? If not, then why are you doing an "advocacy" activity, as you would call it, and not have materials for it? Well maybe then advocacy by example?

Advocacy by example only works if it's done in a proper way, and blocking intersections, running lights, and riding 6-8 abreast is NOT the right way to do advocacy by example....at that point since it was arranged and has so many people involved, it's deliberately congesting a roadway. SO not that either....

So what type of functional advocacy is being done here, or is it just a massive group ride, under the guise of advocacy?

..and start riding legal.....trying to advocate cycling when running lights, etc, is like having Osama host a talk on world peace.
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