Your user name isn't ShinyTruck, is it??? :D ;)

No, but you'd be able to see the amazing PSI of some other folks here, and make a good judgement call.

My screen name on other boards is C-daleRidr. If that makes you sleep better or think more clearly.

If the pressure of the hot air spewing forth to this point on both sides is any indication, I need to work on my urinary muscular control. If that even exists.

I am trying to find the emoticon of a smiley face clapping...but can't find it. Oh well...my favorite part was when you used italics. It made your quote look superior to any rebuttle I could have ever attempted. Wow, you won by italics. Arizona needs you.
ImprezaDrvr-to think that your URBAN CENTER is the same as the URBAN CENTER I currently ride through are the same is a complete stretch of imagination. If I was a 1st grade teacher, you'd get 3 stars: 2 for creativity and 1 for extended imagination.
Tell you what: you come to Chicago, I'll pay room and board for you, and you ride around Chicago for two weeks, during rush hour. If it is NO DIFFERENT from what you incur in AZ, I will pay you $500 cash. I'll even give you a receipt so you can claim it on your taxes!
I am ready to prove you wrong, can you accept it?

So live your life in fear and quiet. Live with out standing up for something you KNOW is right. Live expecting others to take a stand for you. Live that way.

I choose not to.

165, the key point of my post was living and riding in Dallas, which some might call a bit of a population center. I'll certainly admit that riding here is cake compared to even a small city. You're exactly right, and I didn't emphasize the point I was trying to make well enough.

Kegel exercises, my boy, kegel exercises.

Hey I dont have to eat **** to know it tastes bad. I also dont lose my right to hold the opinion that it does, even though I never tested the theory.

Sorry about the spelling, you can discredit all I say becuase I misspelled those words

HAHAHAHA. :D That was funny.

Are you attempting to ride the middle ground here?

:lol:

no way. only a crazy f'in european would bite someone's finger off like that. NY'ers aren't that f'ed up. ;)

Sort of. I don't think it's really worth getting all pissed off because someone disagrees with me. And, no matter what impression was left, I don't believe in letting someone nearly run you off of the road and not hear something about it. I'm just not sold on catching up to someone and bashing their car after the fact. I can understand it, sure, but wouldn't do it for fear of it being, as I said before, paid forward to another rider. I took the same view in Big D, (which, as I'm sure someone will mention, is not Chicago or NY, but neither is it Window Rock.)

PM from edk for all to see.
 

Nice way to attack. I've been curbed 3 times since August, and I ride 3 - 4 times a week. In the 4 years I didn't fix gear commute, I was hit 3 times by cars going into the bike lane or turn lane and turning in front of me.

The reality is that yelling is what works. I've hit 2 cars with my bike pump since 1999 August (when I returned to the United States), that was after yelling and hitting with my hand didn't do anything.

I'm not a fan of violence. But simply getting out of the way is cowardice. One VERY BIG son of a @#$@$ actually said thanks when I hit is window: he didn't notice me, and wasn't listening to anything.

Take it for what you want. I won't lay down. My way of life is to commute. And don't call me a bike Nazi.

BTW, I'm gonna post this PM. Just for you.

Now you sound like your ready to hammer off my mirror. And I like it.

Niether am I, but I've got a different set of circumstances.

And I can't push that big of gear, eh?

Kinky bastard.

Who said anything about pushing a gear? ****, I was talking about pissing long distances, and that's turned to gearing?

And still, all assume that, because I don't rattle off stories of literal run ins with cars and trucks that I haven't had any. Meh, that's the way it goes, I guess. Hell, 165 figures me for being born and raised in Window Rock.

Get over yourself Willy - your not fighting for me, your acting out.

Getting out of the way of a car or truck is not cowardice - Its smart. Its not a life or death situation unless you make it one.

There are more important things to fight for and better ways to fight the fight you seem so willing to engage in. I hope you're not one of those URLs in a few years from your description of your actions on the road - sounds like cycling is bad for your health.

No, I was making a reference to DV's HUGE gear he turns, 52 something. Lotta gear to turn man.. Nothing aimed towards you, I wasn't clear, sorry.

which brings us back full circle:
DumpsterVegan fighting to remain intact for a very brief second this morning.

Actually, United States Navy, so, I'm fighting for you in one way, or the other.




I do not agree, there are times I have not been able to get out of the way of the car. It happens. Not always, not often, but it happens.


Funny thing is, I'm not the one who had the violent action.. DV was. Yet you attack my support. Pretty weak. As for cycling and my health? We'll see what's what.
I certainly hope you're not one of the silent masses that deals with loss of right of way, and just assumes "that's the way it is so I'll live with it".
I'm not the crazy CM advocate you think I am. In fact I'm really not sure about CM, and don't agree with some of the things I see. But in a reality based situation, things happen, and degrees of counter measure must be done.

Oh, no offense anywhere, I was just damned confused. And I was thinking a lot about that gearing when I rode the fixie today at lunch, with my puny 170, 42:16. I can't imagine a 44t on the front right now, much less over 50.

i think one of the biggest issues for ******* drivers for me is that they CAN and DO get away with being *******s. they can speed by you at 45mph, 5inches from your side and nothing happens to them. they can spit on you at a stop light, then get away when it turns green and nothing happens to them. they can cut you off, cause you to fall and be seriously injured and nothing happens to them.

i've smacked a few mirrors in my time, i've kicked a few doors and headlights too. and you know what? it made me feel GOOOOD...some people need a wake up call.

mine came when i was riding with a friend in boston and an AMBULANCE driver swerved into him, he hit the mirror, then she swerved into him AGAIN for no reason. no lights, no sirens, just cruisin' up newbury. well, it escalated, he (my friend) thought her window was up, because she didn't respond after he yelled at her, until he was about three car lenghts in front of her, then she hollered something, i didn't hear it...he came back down the street and hocked up a lugie and spit in her face...which was, uncalled for, but so was her trying to kill him. anyway, this all went down right in front of some Boston transit cops and there was a bike cop who was a few blocks back and was right there on the scene in less than a minute. they took my friend down HARD. then the ambulance driver sat on him with her knee in the back of his neck, screaming her head off right in his ear. yeah, really ****ing civil. he got assault charges and parole, she got nothing. the whole situation really pissed me off, because she got off scot free for operating an emergency vehicle in a dangerous manner.

at any rate, i don't do much kicking and punching anymore, which pissed people off, and sometimes got my point across, but i do yell my head off, which does absolutely nothing. if i was in a situation that had escalated to the point where i didn't have an escape route, you bet your ass i'd go down fighting though. i try to live by the rule of "don't start ****, and there won't be ****." problem is, most of the time, i'm not the one starting it, and i still can't do anything about it.

sometimes, people need a wake-up call.

OK! A challenge has been made...Winning is at stake...Give no quarter...Take no prisoners...Defend your position...No matter what. Must...be....right!!!

:fight: :D ;)