Sadly, you are the same guy who has a bike thief friend, and who thinks it's OK to steal stuff from people who don't lock it "securely enough.

I guess compared to killing people, that's peanuts. Just putting thing into context, mate.

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Mixed feelings.
 

I got jumped this last summer, strongarmed, lost my bike and nose was broken into my eye sockets, cops were total dicks to me. I got knocked down and pounded for about 20 seconds befor I knocked the guy off me and ran... called cops on celly after I couldn't hear his footseps behind me... made it 6 blocks and waited for the 5-o. They came, lots of them.... I was asked if I was some sort of "Pacifist" by one, another questioned if I had really been assulted. All of them were ridiculing me. I almost walked home and said F-it but one cop realized I was suffering from some pretty good head trauma and not making much sense and gave me a ride back to the scene (he even found my glasses), then home.

Today a cop waved and honked at me while riding my tallbike...

positive police experience: i had just gotten off a peter pan bus at port authority & was re-assembling my bike (which was disassembled to put it in a bike bag). a cop came up to me; i thought he was going to tell me that i can't do it there and that i have to move, or something like that, but he said: "excuse me, is that a track bike? do you ever ride at kissena?" -- i spent probably 20 minutes talking to the guy about bikes.

however, every other bike-related encounter with a cop has been negative.

i'll agree with the statement that there are some good, most mediocre, and some horrible cops just like in any other walk of life, but i think it might be a little more skewed towards horrible. i also realize that i have the color of my skin working in my favor, and that if i weren't a white kid i'd have it much worse. that sucks.

Seems police can get successful nabs on personal use 'offenders' riding bikes and it makes news - we don't hear regular news about car drivers getting busted (even though this probably happens daily), but every time a cyclist is, its a news story. Here is one from last week (three different cyclists), previous week in same paper was a story of two other cyclists gettting searched and busted.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/m...ke0102-ON.html

Al

this line is priceless

the only encounter with the police i've had was for ****ing around in the street. i mean, 7 or 8 of us were taking 2 lanes or so, and the cop was driving next to me. he told me to stop goofing around in the street.

all he said was "don't you need a light for that bike?"

[QUOTE=2manybikes]There wasn’t a problem with my light and I didn’t “shine it right in her eyes.” You said that not me. Guaranteed her retinas are getting hit harder by the watts coming off a passing car than my headlamp juiced by powerful triple-A batteries pointed at a downward angle. I mentioned the headlamp just because she could see where I was looking. I’ve had a number of drivers let me know they’ve appreciated my headlamp and they could see me very well. But hey all you guys sounded pretty clever there trying to criticize me. “roll eyes.”

The lights were not the reason she pulled me over and the issue was never brought up. I’m guessing she was stopping me cause she didn’t know what it was. I wish she had been profiling then she would have asked herself: “How many drug dealing, house robbin’, no gooders have I seen clipped into an old fuji fixed-gear conversion hauling up hill with legal lights and no actual bag to hold any drugs? Hmm probably none.” The pusher-man don’t roll that way.

She was curious, like a kid poking an animal with a stick. And when I poked back she got pissed. I’m not trying to paint a larger brush about law-enforcement. The situation didn’t suck just because she was a cop. The situation sucked cause she was a b*tch. And she had the gun.