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Old 10-24-09 | 03:49 PM
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A cyclist saga of fighting back !

This is a deceleration of wars and who my enemy " private and mall store owner " and my mission is to barrage them with lengthy e-mail to let them know that cyclist are very important person next to own car-owner counterpart and my mission start today the worst offender is this location

51-06 Northern Blvd
Woodside NY 11377

and store located on the premises are
Super Deal
Starbuck
Gamestop
Michaels
HSBC
Subways
Boston Market
and where the old clock tower is pizza huts right across the parking lots

now i contact these owner of the business about why is there no parking on the premises for cyclist some will only give some BS answer and some did know and when i ask for the management company who own the properties they were a little hesitate so what i did i when right to the " jugular " sort of saying to the headquarter of these company and ask them by e-mail

why are you manager of your store is not giving access to cyclist for parking and denied there right is to help them and when i ask to contact information for the management company they were a little hesitate

small updated i will post picture and embarrass and exposes these " cyclist hater " and also my fight will continue also i came across this from the nycdot and when is come to cyclist in Manhattan they get special treatment that queens/Brooklyn

https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bic...eparking.shtml

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Old 10-24-09 | 04:22 PM
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When communicating with your 'enemy', or anyone else, you might consider doing so using proper grammar, spelling and punctuation - so perhaps they will understand whatever it is you are trying to convey. Frankly, I don't have a clue myself...something about bike parking at a mall?
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Old 10-24-09 | 04:37 PM
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When communicating with your 'enemy', or anyone else, you might consider doing so using proper grammar, spelling and punctuation - so perhaps they will understand whatever it is you are trying to convey. Frankly, I don't have a clue myself...something about bike parking at a mall?
Yeah...I hate to pile on, but I've read your post three times and I have no idea what it means or what you plan to do. Even if the guy WANTS to help, I doubt he can figure out what you're asking for. I'm not just being fussy about fine points of grammar that don't really matter--the thing is incomprehensible.
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Old 10-24-09 | 05:46 PM
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The way I read it is that the mall has no specific area with a bike rack to park and lock bikes to.

I see the same thing in malls in this area. One new mall was recently built outside of this town that required a bunch of road work. Now pedestrians and bicycles are prohibited from using the road. There are no sidewalks.

There is a spur off the Schuylkill River Trail at Conshohocken that goes up to Plymouth Meeting on Ridge Pike. One day my wife needed some kitchen utensils from IKEA in the mall at Ridge Pike. The spur off the SRT goes right in front of it and a number of other large stores. I guarded the bikes out front while the wife shopped for her kitchen utensils. We had the big bags on the back of both bikes. No bike rack of course. Got a lot of funny looks. Two old people at IKEA on bicycles. Then a few months later we stopped to stock up on their ginger cookies and Lo & Behold there was a nice big bike rack under the building overhang. Out of the sun and rain.
So IKEA seems to have gotten the message that a rec trail past the front of the business will bring some business to them.

With the bikes I was, however, praying that she would not buy something like a kitchen cabinet. That was my answer when some woman asked me about us shopping on bicycles.
After we told our married daughters that we shop IKEA on the bicycles we figured they discussed which managed care facility to put us in.
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Old 10-24-09 | 06:05 PM
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When a mall has no specific area with a bike rack, you can:

a) start a crusade against the property management and bombard them with complaints

or

b) lock to something else (like a signpost).

I don't mind it, and even appreciate it if someone does a) - it's good to have bike parking (though going overboard with this sort of stuff may result in a "bikes prohibitied" sign on the property instead - treat someone like an enemy and he'll start treating you the same way eventually). But I have better ways in which to spend my time, so just do b) and neither I nor my bike are worse for the wear.
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Old 10-24-09 | 06:10 PM
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But if you are going to start a crusade, you kinda need to communicate your cause effectively to potential crusaders.
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Old 10-24-09 | 06:20 PM
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When a mall has no specific area with a bike rack, you can:

a) start a crusade against the property management and bombard them with complaints

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b) lock to something else (like a signpost).
I do this also, in fact, I prefer shopping malls not to have bike racks for this very reason. I find signposts, fence, railings etc easier to use anyway, and sometimes I really can't be bothered walking all the way across a carpark on a hot day just because the management decided to dump the bike rack in the middle of nowhere. Heck, half the time when a shop does have a bike rack, I won't actually see it for that very reason.
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Old 10-24-09 | 07:02 PM
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Well here my view

There are people who are " too cheap " and " could careless about cyclist " and who fault is this well let me start with the manager / owner of Queens Malls located on 97st and Queens Blvd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Place_Mall

where they have immigrant / thuglike / former cops security that "intermediate and bully" customer and cyclist

who don't care about cyclist and they catch you riding on the sidewalk and you go inside "they banned you" and if you ride in the back of the mall "they banned you" even on public sidewalk

who don't care about customer feedback or compliant

security and management will "threaten" to called the police if you talk back at them or when they do nothing and you deserve an answer

they have what i called dinky bicycles parking at most for 2 to 3 bicycles and that it most of the time is other idiot cyclist and delivery take the whole bar and no parking for 45min to an hrs or more

and this why i hate this place is all about the money to these " sob " and i cant ride my bike down there for those reason i have to take the bus and spend my $4.50 thank to these jerk!@# and let me embarrass them more the outside fascia where they have gravel benches and some are falling away from the support i compliant to manager " nothing " still broken and that was a yrs ago

now there is another malls that is bend around since mid 1970 the " queens center mall " located at 99st queens blvd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Center

and what i like about theses guy are
Courtesy and professional security guard " there own mall security "
Take suggestion and at in a professional manner even the mall manager like to meet the customer
Cyclist Friendly and the do enforce a sharing rules for all cyclist " no cross locking or be cuts "

and there is another store and parking that are cyclist friendly
Home Depot
50-10 Northern Blvd
LIC Queens Ny 11101

and is some place are behind and where there are " state and even country " are catering the need to cyclist look at place and video like in europe and in japan that dealt with this look it up on youtube

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Old 10-24-09 | 07:20 PM
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Many businesses here have no bike parking. And of those that do, many fail the test of permitting the correct locking technique. Now, the 'best' way to lock is with a u-lock through the rear triangle to the rear wheel, is that right? The old-fashioned vertical bar rack doesn't permit a u-lock through the triangle. Maybe they've installed the correct noodle bar or similar, but it's too close to the building or other obstruction to permit placing the rear triangle through it, again necessitating a cable lock. Not wanting to risk my good bike to a cable cutter, I ride a low $ value bike when I'm taking a trip to one of these places; that is, most anywhere in the city. The 'good' bike is reserved for trips to friends & relatives or pure recreation, where I can keep it in sight. Still, I try to properly lock up even the low $ cheapie (it's a good quality hi-ten bike, it fits me well, and I've put a fair amount of work into it), and that usually means locking to poles and cart racks and the like.

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Old 10-24-09 | 07:36 PM
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Is "deceleration of wars" what happens when you stop sending personnel and materiel to the war zone?

What do you mean by "could careless"?

I'm going to strongly second the recommendation that you find someone linguistically competent to help you in your campaign. Clearly you are a victim of social promotions. Or are still in second grade.
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Old 10-24-09 | 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by KentMadness
and this why i hate this place is all about the money to these " sob " and i cant ride my bike down there
Yet you still choose to spent your money there, and spent even more getting there. Just curious how old are you, 12?

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Old 10-24-09 | 08:15 PM
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But if you are going to start a crusade, you kinda need to communicate your cause effectively to potential crusaders.
what in the internet age whare anyone can can write anyway they want u say we need grammer and all that bul****nah................ its tottallyc lear when u just type it like its in urhead ................. only morons need that outdated commas and whatnot )))))))

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Damn! I think I need more practice at this! That passage above could be way muddier, so much less literate, so much more deliciously atrocious! I'm such a faker. :-(((
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Yes, chephy. I was able to read your post on the first try.
The OP's... not so much. I refuse to work at reading.
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Old 10-24-09 | 08:27 PM
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Kent, hire an advocate who can write.
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Old 10-24-09 | 09:52 PM
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Way way way off-topic(not really sure what the topic is):

Kinda sounds like a few paragraphs that have been run through Google's
language translator tool several times.

Here's the above sentence translated English to Arabic to Czech to Spanish to English:

"It seems a small number of points which are operated by e-mail
Language Tools translator on several occasions."

Just imagine how mangled a whole paragraph would turn out.
I think Kent may have written the manual and warranty for my DVD player.

Again:
"Imagine how rotten the entire paragraph is changed.
I think Kent may have a written warranty in the manual and my DVD."

Automating this language filtering process would be a great way to disguise your "voice" online.
This could be a lot of fun...
(I love conspiracy theories!)
There should be a Foo thread based on this.
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Old 10-24-09 | 11:28 PM
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This was translated from English to Korean and back to English using babblefish.com:

"I want to ride my bicycle to your mall. You don't provide dedicated bike parking. Please help."
became
"I burn and the bicycle in your strip mall. You don' t provides bicycle parking which is zealous. Help."

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In this way, style and off-topic (not really to ensure that the contents of):

Looks a little like those made by some sections of the Google
Translation agency on several occasions.

All English and Arabic, in the Czech Republic, Spain, in English, in the sentence mentioned above:

"It seems that, through e-points, e-mail service, and the smaller the number of e-mail
Language translation several times. "

How to lose the entire poem is the first.
I think that I have written my manual to ensure the DVD.

Change:
He said, "I do not think how to change the corrupt, the whole team.
I think that the role of Kent in writing the guidelines, to keep my DVD. "

During this language automatically will be breathing a great way to hide the "voice" on the Internet.
It was very interesting ...
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Gavin debate that should be dominant.
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There are people who are " too cheap " and " could careless about cyclist " and who fault is this well let me start with the manager / owner of Queens Malls located on 97st and Queens Blvd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Place_Mall

where they have immigrant / thuglike / former cops security that "intermediate and bully" customer and cyclist
I bet those immigrants speak better English than you do.
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This isn't the worst case of slaughtering the English language that I've seen, and is far better than the very expensive brochure that came through my workplace, several years ago, from a Chinese manufacturer. Even MMACH's personal translation, while hilarious, was still easier to read than the brochure that I received.

I can understand the OP's frustration, many chain stores/franchises either ignore bicycle parking facilities or put them in areas far from the main entrance with little or no supervision. The only local exception I've found is our local Target which puts it's bicycle parking facility close to the main entrance, and in front of a one way glass window with a security camera above it.
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OP probably speaks english as a second language, or just threw it into a translator, cut him some slack guys about the grammar/punc guys :|
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Old 10-25-09 | 09:59 AM
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OP probably speaks english as a second language, or just threw it into a translator, cut him some slack guys about the grammar/punc guys :|
While that does seem the case he loses all sympathy from me with his immigrant comment. What a tool.
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Wow. All I can say is...wow.
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