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Originally Posted by harleyfrog
I see quite a few bicycle riders (I won't call them cyclists, because that implies, to my mind at least, a higher level of involvement other than riding a bicycle), many of whom are a) minorities, b) riding in unsafe fashion, and c) generally giving the cyclists around here a bad PR (it's always the few bad apples that spoil it for everyone). I was thinking of doing a little guerilla advocacy/activism. By that I mean when I'm out riding and I see someone doing something unsafe (say riding against the flow of traffic) to stop them, talk with them in a friendly tone...

How do you intend to "stop" these "bad apples", whom you do not consider your equal as a cyclist, in a "friendly" way?

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