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11-06-09, 10:41 AM
I should know better than this.
But after getting "hit" by a car two days ago (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=600084), then being nearly killed by a bike salmon and a "not-looking" bicyclist riding through a pedestrian crosswalk I had to vent, and the most anonymous way I could think to do it was to let loose a little venom on Craigslist.
Always entertaining to hear the responses.
This was not my OP, but I responded to it because it seemed like someone who was not a bicyclist actually realizing that you can criticize the idiotic behavior of some cyclists without "they're all idiots" or "they should all be killed".
http://corvallis.craigslist.org/rnr/1449999474.html
Strangely, the worst offender as far as posts go come from another "cyclist". Here's a wonderful sample of his wisdom.
http://corvallis.craigslist.org/rnr/1452132055.html
This post is what led me to make a little angrier post later in the thread. WOW.
Clearly CL Rants and Raves is sort of the dregs of cyber-society, however, like roadkill at the side of the road I can't help but look.
If a place like Corvallis can't get bicycling right, I don't know where it is possible. That being said, I defer to a previous posters' wisdom concerning this town: "It is Corvallis, after all".
But after getting "hit" by a car two days ago (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=600084), then being nearly killed by a bike salmon and a "not-looking" bicyclist riding through a pedestrian crosswalk I had to vent, and the most anonymous way I could think to do it was to let loose a little venom on Craigslist.
Always entertaining to hear the responses.
This was not my OP, but I responded to it because it seemed like someone who was not a bicyclist actually realizing that you can criticize the idiotic behavior of some cyclists without "they're all idiots" or "they should all be killed".
http://corvallis.craigslist.org/rnr/1449999474.html
Strangely, the worst offender as far as posts go come from another "cyclist". Here's a wonderful sample of his wisdom.
http://corvallis.craigslist.org/rnr/1452132055.html
This post is what led me to make a little angrier post later in the thread. WOW.
Clearly CL Rants and Raves is sort of the dregs of cyber-society, however, like roadkill at the side of the road I can't help but look.
If a place like Corvallis can't get bicycling right, I don't know where it is possible. That being said, I defer to a previous posters' wisdom concerning this town: "It is Corvallis, after all".