Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
You spit on a car, and then you stood around for the better part of an hour getting into a snit with a couple of idjits, and you want to make out like this is some kind of bold stand for freedom? Such drama.
Seems to me that what CB did was ensure that the idjits were properly educated... as you point out below... I doubt that the driver would have gone off with just the word from CB, and in fact now has had a lesson reinforced by five oh.
Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
I believe it's already been pointed out to you that in all likelihood, he didn't know that you had the right to use the lane. Yet rather than simply point this out to him and go on your way, you gave yourself an atomic wedgie for over half an hour over it, and now you're convincing yourself that simple ignorance is anti-bicycle persecution. I'm not going to argue with your choice of recreational activities...just saying, as I did when I came into this thread, that it seems like a waste of time to me, and that in your place, I would have other things I'd rather be doing.
"Recreational vehicles" hoo boy... you just hit the nail on the head of the problem. How about "transportation..."
Just because someone does not choose to drive a car and feed the "oil machine" doesn't make them any less a valid user of the road... there in lies the problem, far too many motorists deciding that they own the road and that bikes are just toys. How and why anyone uses their transportation at any time has no bearing on the validity of the vehicle and where it can be used. If we went by your line of reasoning, anyone driving an RV should not be permitted on the road.
And as far as the time it takes to educate some of these clueless morons, like those that tangled with CB... it is not time wasted if they finally "get a clue." Seems to me CB offered a valuable service and educated someone for really very little overhead.