Originally Posted by
John Forester
I see that you have given up on unreasonableness and have retreated to "common sense". In so many affairs of life, common sense has been disproved to be safe and useful, and that is particularly true in bicycling affairs, a field rampant with superstitions that contradict scientific knowledge.
And I see how you have conveniently left out the all important correlation I made between common sense and riding safely. Instead, you have chose the oft-used, but generally ridiculous, tactic of distracting the subject from the issue at hand to semantics. Nice try.