Originally Posted by
Booger1
It goes where I go,otherwise I shop elsewhere.If a double wide baby stroller or shopping cart doesn't block the aisle,neither does my bike.
Of course you're free to shop elsewhere, but comparing your bike to a stroller with child is arrogant nonsense.
A parent cannot leave a child and stroller locked up outside a store, or in their car. First of all it's stupid and dangerous, secondly it's illegal and can result in arrest. So mom has no choice about bringing the child into the store.
OTOH- your bicycle is a vehicle, which can be safely (relatively) and securely be left outside, locked as necessary. It's fine to bring it in if the merchant doesn't mind, but it doesn't in any way have the same status as a stroller and child. Cyclists making this kind of comparison is the kind of stuff that makes folks that we're all arrogant and too full of ourselves.