idiotic bicyclist
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idiotic bicyclist
Yesterday evening while I was going to the movie theatre in a fuel efficient car, i had stopped at a stop sign, and then a girl on a bicycle coming off of the sidewal from the rear-left end of the car hit the side of the car. She wasnt injured and the car was only scraped a little, but I just think some people like that shouldnt be bicycling. I feel as though she helps to make the stereotype of bicyclists that swerve in traffic and cause accidents. Theres really nothing I personally can do about having to share the road with a couple bad apple bicyclists. I'm not trying to bad mouth bicyclists or anything, considering that I am one, but why are bicyclists given more slack for that sort of thing, especially children?
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I am of the opinion that just because someone is in possession of or operating a bicycle he or she is not necessarily a cyclist.
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I concur with the preceding comments, but I am far less concerned about idiotic pedestrians and cyclists than about idiotic motorists, because the latter are far more likely to injure or kill other road users.
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Originally posted by webist
I am of the opinion that just because someone is in possession of or operating a bicycle he or she is not necessarily a cyclist.
Carl
I am of the opinion that just because someone is in possession of or operating a bicycle he or she is not necessarily a cyclist.
Carl
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Originally posted by Devster
but why are bicyclists given more slack for that sort of thing, especially children?
but why are bicyclists given more slack for that sort of thing, especially children?
Maybe it simply that you give them too much slack.
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