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Old 11-19-13 | 11:13 AM
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FBinNY
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Bikes: too many bikes from 1967 10s (5x2)Frejus to a Sumitomo Ti/Chorus aluminum 10s (10x2), plus one non-susp mtn bike I use as my commuter

Originally Posted by MEversbergII
.... they were the biggest problem of all. It was an iPod-listing pedestrian that lead to me crashing and doing an endo one morning on the way to work, ....

Simply, peds are just as distracted and unresponsive...sometimes even more so.

M.
I'm not in any way a sidewalk nazi, but you're 100% in the wrong here. The sidewalk belongs to pedestrians, whether on their ipods or not. They didn't cause your endo, you did. If/when you ride a bike on the sidewalk, it's your responsibility to avoid pedestrians, not theirs to avoid you.
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