Wow...what a dumb***
03-06-09, 10:30 AM
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03-06-09, 10:55 AM
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Be that as it may, wouldn't you look before proceeding? Wet roads, large bus, short distance...it doesn't take a brain surgeon to predict how that was going to end up. Though it might take a brain surgeon to put it right, afterwards.
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03-06-09, 12:51 PM
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03-06-09, 12:56 PM
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It's hard to argue right-of-way when you're dead or nearly there because you had the right-of-way and stepped in front of a bus (unless you're that guy, of course.)
Right-of-way should not preclude thought and self-preservation.
Right-of-way should not preclude thought and self-preservation.
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Sweet parallel park job by that bus driver.
03-06-09, 01:57 PM
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Here on campus, people just think that cars will or have to stop. While this may be correct, you don't know what I'm doing... maybe I'm looking at the radio or TEXTING
I just can't comprehend why people just step out into traffic thinking that the car WILL stop?Your comment is spot on. You never get to argue right of way... you only get an opportunity to think ahead.
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The question remains who sues who ?
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03-06-09, 05:45 PM
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I agree.
If this was anywhere in the US, we would have people dying every 20 minutes. Asians are actually damn good drivers & riders. It's just that some Asian Americans somehow lost their skills. haha
I bet you most Asians are better cyclists/motorcyclist than your average American. It's easy to go fast on a straight road with no one in front of you. Hop on your Yamaha R6, put that baby in first gear and you can hit 80MPH in first gear. Or hop on that 14lbs carbon Trek and pound out those miles on a smooth black road with a 5ft shoulder.......nothing skillful about that. But riding your bike with hundreds of people inches from you going 5mph isn't an easy thing.
I hear people on this board complain about organized events and how many Freds they have to deal with....imagine riding in Asia.
Put an average American on a motorcycle/scooter/bicycle and have him ride in any large city around the world and watch them crap in their pants. Just saying....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvtEjML6QU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqibvh96Og
If this was anywhere in the US, we would have people dying every 20 minutes. Asians are actually damn good drivers & riders. It's just that some Asian Americans somehow lost their skills. haha
I bet you most Asians are better cyclists/motorcyclist than your average American. It's easy to go fast on a straight road with no one in front of you. Hop on your Yamaha R6, put that baby in first gear and you can hit 80MPH in first gear. Or hop on that 14lbs carbon Trek and pound out those miles on a smooth black road with a 5ft shoulder.......nothing skillful about that. But riding your bike with hundreds of people inches from you going 5mph isn't an easy thing.
I hear people on this board complain about organized events and how many Freds they have to deal with....imagine riding in Asia.
Put an average American on a motorcycle/scooter/bicycle and have him ride in any large city around the world and watch them crap in their pants. Just saying....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCvtEjML6QU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dqibvh96Og
03-06-09, 06:03 PM
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All I can think of is that there's a lot of people who are lucky that road was wet, if it was dry the bus could have easily rolled and the cyclist would be a pancake and there would be several injured bus riders.
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03-06-09, 06:04 PM
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I've been to China. It's absolutely insane, people whiz by each other at most 6" apart and traffic laws seem like a running joke than something to be listened to. When I got back to the U.S. I drove 10mph faster and a lot more aggressively.