you do know about the history of EC, his efforts in california getting bikes NOT recognized as vehicles, forestors ouster from the LAB, his ostracisism from the mainstream bicycling advocacy community due his engineering prejudices, his allegiance with a pro motorist organization, and his efforts against bike infrastructure in this country, don't you?

You know about his admitted sellout in California of bicyclists to the motorists' interests and the resulting ban along many of CA's high speed trasnportation cooridors?


he wrote a book 35 years ago about bicycling. I wonder what's changed? On this forum he was recently recommending acetlyene bike lamps or 3W halogens.... one small indicator how out of touch he is about contemporary bicycling.


johns unproven theories, his weak and unsurpportable data is just part of the story. not to mention his contradictions regarding how bikes should operate in narrow lanes of travel.

his pithy fallacy 'bikes fare best when they act and are treated as drivers as vehicles' is also incorrect; bicyclists "fare best when they act and are treated in communities as drivers of human powered vehicles and accomodated as such"

his decades old, outdated rant in the face of overwhelming world evidence to the contrary is, like membership in the flat earth society, pathetic.