Originally Posted by rekmeyata (Post 16845749)

If you move from the Netherlands to the US you have to get a license too if you migrate here. LOL, that was a great comment you made!!! The USA doesn't just throw an American drivers license at you just because you puff out your chest and proclaim you're from the Netherlands!!! LOL!!!!! By the way, no one can be learned anything, they are taught, something you didn't learn in your English classes...but you're doing pretty good with most English here. Moving right along.

Originally Posted by yote223 (Post 16847164)

Well Said. Might I add that I for one, prefer Freedom of Choice over socialist protectionism.

Originally Posted by elcruxio (Post 16847262)

Dude, you are not the person to call people out for spelling mistakes. You should be a native speaker but your grammar and spelling are not good enough to call people out on. Furthermore attacking someone's grammar or spelling is a low blow signifying a desperate attack before defeat. This is know in the lore of the internet.

Originally Posted by tractorlegs (Post 16847338)

You meant "known", right?

Originally Posted by rydabent (Post 16845911)

wp

It is off subject. Cars have their own safety devices, seatbelts and air bags. The safety device for cyclist is a helmet.

I am not for MLHs. But with all the nanny state fools we have in this country, I wouldnt put it past them to require bikes to be outfitted with air bags. Wont the weight weenies go nutz over that??? :)

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike (Post 16846551)

You commuted 68 miles, Oh Boy! or BFD! since it is totally irrelevant.
Bicycle commuting is the subject; NOT how far people commute to Los Angeles or anyplace else by any other mode.

Originally Posted by elcruxio (Post 16847279)

This always interests me greatly! How does the average american have more freedoms than the average European. Just mention a few things if you will.
'Cause to me it seems Europe actually has a lot more freedom than the states in all aspects of life.

I have the emphasize that freedom can be considered by either in the terms of Hobbes's "State of Nature" (European approach) or the extremely naive "Noble Savage" by Rousseau.
Basically can freedom better be obtained in a world of anarchy or order?

Gosh, I got to get the rights for P&R

Originally Posted by CarinusMalmari (Post 16847184)

Last week, while I was euthanizing my grandmother's wife with an overdose of marijuana, I wondered for a moment, whether American Freedom isn't a bit overrated. I hypothesized that maybe many Americans are believing they're super-free, because a significant part of the population is dumbed down enough to mindlessly swallow any propaganda that is spoon-fed to them. Especially the kind of propaganda that contains intimidating big words they don't really understand when referring to non-Americans. Words like, I don't know, "socialist" and "protectionism" for example.

Anyway, from what I know of it, there's is no difference in freedom of choice for transportation between the US and NL. There seems to be a difference in options to choose from, though, with NL offering the best and most extensive assortment of transport options. There's very good car, bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure, public transport is excellent, featuring trains, buses, trams, and metros. There's also lots of waterways, which I admit, is mostly a geographical bonus, and we even got them sky-planes.

Originally Posted by yote223 (Post 16848240)

Don't Lecture me about freedoms. I have shed my blood in defense of this country and it's freedoms.

Originally Posted by rekmeyata (Post 16847628)

Bikes with airbags is great idea. But for upright bikes the bag would have to mounted in such a way that it would encase the rider completely in the bag.

I often thought that car manufactures got the air bag thing wrong anyways, the bags should be on the outside of the car and not on the inside thus protecting the exterior of the car more from impact damage possibility saving millions a year on body damage. Make the exterior bag react by sensors just before impact and make it really strong so the effect be be similar to a superball...the cars would just bounce off each other. Boing.

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 16848796)

More topic action.

Y'all see the new Smith helmets?
Art's Cyclery Blog » Smith Forefront Helmet Review

http://blog.artscyclery.com/wp-conte...06/SMFH-r1.jpg

Originally Posted by JoeyBike (Post 16848554)

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TOPIC!

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 16848796)

More topic action.

Y'all see the new Smith helmets?
Art's Cyclery Blog » Smith Forefront Helmet Review

http://blog.artscyclery.com/wp-conte...06/SMFH-r1.jpg

Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets (Post 16848796)

More topic action.

Y'all see the new Smith helmets?

Originally Posted by rydabent (Post 16847469)

This thread is not about spelling. It is about the safety of wearing a helmet.

Originally Posted by yote223 (Post 16848240)

Don't Lecture me about freedoms. I have shed my blood in defense of this country and it's freedoms.

Originally Posted by elcruxio (Post 16847262)

Dude, you are not the person to call people out for spelling mistakes. You should be a native speaker but your grammar and spelling are not good enough to call people out on. Furthermore attacking someone's grammar or spelling is a low blow signifying a desperate attack before defeat. This is know in the lore of the internet.

Originally Posted by Modern rules of the Internet

Originally Posted by wphamilton (Post 16848836)

You were talking about seat belts so cut us all some slack ...

Originally Posted by rekmeyata (Post 16849878)

I'd rather cut his seat belt just a second before impact, that should give him plenty of slack.