Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
A&S certainly has a significant number of posters who display that sentiment, but certainly not a higher percentage than this one.
Well no thread here as yet has provided contact information for a third party while re posting their private emails in an apparent effort to garner them additional harrasment from fellow fanatics.
Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Then is your proposal just so much wee-weeing into the wind for the heck of it since there is no constituency for it?
Isn't that the purpose of this forum?
Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Roody zeroed in on your unfounded assumptions and unfounded opinion/argument on the issue that bicyclists should have to go through a set of tests and licensing in much the same way that many places require additional testing and licensing for motorcycle operation.
"How well founded is your own assumption that most cyclists want to take tests and pay license fees? What makes you certain that such drastic and expensive measures will lower injury rates?"
What makes you think tests, training and/or licensing of cyclists will accomplish anything positive at all for anybody, except perhaps employment for the trainers and promoters of cyclist training programs?
Perhaps it will lower the number of cycling "crashes" thus creating less injuries since there are likely to be significantly fewer cyclists under your theoretical regime of bicycling regulation über alles.
Well you disappoint me. Roody display classic straw men fallacies by misstating my positions. I will ask you, like I asked him to provide a link to my posts where I said what he claimed...
Heck, your committing a straw man by inaccurately stating Roody's second question/statement...
To be accurate it was the following:
Originally Posted by Roody
What makes you certain that such drastic and expensive measures will lower injury rates?
But to answer your version of Roody's question. I believe it
might improve traffic safety (since I was talking about all road users not simply cyclists) in the same way it improved traffic safety when the same types of measures were applied to drunk driving or seat belts.
BTW, what aspect of my statements do you think would reduce the number of cyclists and why do you insist that I am solely talking about bicycle regulation? The only thing bicycle specific I have discussed was testing and licensing cyclists. Hardly a major inconvenience, since most citizens need some form of picture id, which is frequently issued by the same folks who license drivers and presumably would license cyclists.