Originally Posted by
vredstein
How hard do you think Lance and other cyclists worked to get Austin to be a bike friendly community? How hard did they work to change motorists attitudes away from "bikes don't belong on streets", "bikes are a hazard", and "I'm never letting my kid ride in the streets."
All this is getting ruined by these jackasses and the publicity from the video. If I was a cop, I'd force them to put on a 7-speed MegaRange cassette, two U-brakes, and GripShift's lowest level twisters, and a Hannah Montana helmet. Let's them parade around town on that setup.
Whatever, if people lack the intelligence that they make blanket statements about an entire group based on a small, isolated amount of incidents, I could care less about dealing with them or their beliefs. Case in point, I get cut off or put into sketchy situations all the time by inattentive drivers, especially ones on cell phones. Yet I don't go blabbering all day like some mindless jerk about how "all drivers are sooo bad!" and how "cars are coffins".
And I'll be laughing all the way to the bank when they're getting ***** by car insurance and oil companies while I pay for yogurt and PBJ to fuel my ride.