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03-17-09 | 01:41 AM
#77
Bikes hella booty!
Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 386
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From: Seattle
Bikes: 725TR Leader
i dont get how any of you could just not SEE somebody else on a bike. i mean, do you ride in caves? remote jungles? forest areas? maybe i just havent ridden around in enough places, but i really dont have a hard time seeing things around my neck of the woods (note: not actually woods) even when there arent street lights. i live in an urban area, so there it doesnt get that dark, but this guy is in denver. its not like hes on some unlit highway out in the country.
obviously im not against using lights, of course they make you more conspicuous to cars, but bikes? are you just off in lalaland, and you need to see a light to snap back to attentive mode? im baffled.
if anybody ever hit me bike on bike, id give em an earful, and depending on the damage done, i might kick the **** out of them. seriously how stupid/oblivious/aloof do you have to be to hit another biker?
disagree if you want, but i just dont see how two attentive riders (im assuming they both have eyeballs, and arent admiring their glow in the dark oury grips or their purple anodized bar/stem setup while riding 20+mph) could ever run into one another. are we talking head on collision? t-bone? coming around a blind corner? rear ending somebody is out of the question right? or am i giving people too much credit?
i mean for two bikers to hit, both of them have to be unable to see the other rider right?
please explain to me how this could possibly occur.
my guess is that you all ride in caves. lulz
obviously im not against using lights, of course they make you more conspicuous to cars, but bikes? are you just off in lalaland, and you need to see a light to snap back to attentive mode? im baffled.
if anybody ever hit me bike on bike, id give em an earful, and depending on the damage done, i might kick the **** out of them. seriously how stupid/oblivious/aloof do you have to be to hit another biker?
disagree if you want, but i just dont see how two attentive riders (im assuming they both have eyeballs, and arent admiring their glow in the dark oury grips or their purple anodized bar/stem setup while riding 20+mph) could ever run into one another. are we talking head on collision? t-bone? coming around a blind corner? rear ending somebody is out of the question right? or am i giving people too much credit?
i mean for two bikers to hit, both of them have to be unable to see the other rider right?
please explain to me how this could possibly occur.
my guess is that you all ride in caves. lulz
Dude you crack me up
03-17-09 | 11:18 AM
#78
Senior Member
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,174
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From: Brownsville, TX
Bikes: Surly CC
The problem is that you opened up your rant with slang. Your intention was to anger readers and troll them.
+10 for lights.
-10 for assumptions
-20 for the 'ride a real distance' reference
My angry rebut - come down to Matamoros, we'll ride on the flat roads here for over a century, on fixed gear in 30 MPH head winds, you can ride your 40 lb. touring rig.
+10 for lights.
-10 for assumptions
-20 for the 'ride a real distance' reference
My angry rebut - come down to Matamoros, we'll ride on the flat roads here for over a century, on fixed gear in 30 MPH head winds, you can ride your 40 lb. touring rig.
03-17-09 | 11:41 AM
#79
its that damned rap music
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 569
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From: brooklyn, ny
Bikes: Kilo TT, Bianchi Pista Concept 2005, Shogun 600 ~1983
03-17-09 | 03:46 PM
#80
Senior Member
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 2,174
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From: Brownsville, TX
Bikes: Surly CC
2. You're doing bills, while riding, and therefore not paying attention.
3. You've got headphones on, while talking on a cell phone and checking your hair while not paying attention.
4. God struck you with blindness moments before impact, as part of some Old Testament revival, so you weren't paying attention.
5. A squirrel was discussing Aristotle with you, and you weren't paying attention.
6. You saw a frisbee, and started thinking about frisbees, so you weren't paying attention.
7. You had some hot dish waiting at home, and so you weren't paying attention.
8. You were thinking about how far you could ride to begin a new hip trend, and so you weren't paying attention.
9. You were in tune with your touring rig, feeling the delicate shifts in weight and metric changes as the wheels broke across cracked ground, and so you weren't paying attention.
10. You were reviewing things to do that night, and weren't paying attention.
11. You were blogging, and weren't paying attention.
12. You closed your eyes to rest them for a few moments, and weren't paying attention.
13. Small children angered you earlier, and so you were meditating while riding, and weren't paying attention.
14. Right at that moment, you ran out of ADD meds, and therefore, you weren't paying attention.
15. You were munching on a granola bar while sipping green tea, and therefore weren't paying attention.
Last edited by Santaria; 03-17-09 at 03:50 PM.
03-17-09 | 04:06 PM
#81
Live without dead time
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 2,136
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From: Toronto
Which is why you have much to learn grasshopper. The motivation to have a Mohawk (or any other haircut for that matter) should transcend petty things like "coolness" or acceptance by peer groups. Through cutting one's hair in the bathroom sink to achieve an entirely poorly done haircut, one can achieve a zen like state of "radness" in which the need to be seen as any particular thing is replaced by a state of simply being "rad". People of this mindset make fashion choices not based on either acceptance or on irony, but simply because those choices are awesome.
/quasi sarcasm although I'm not entirely sure speaking as someone who kind of sort of has a mohawk
/quasi sarcasm although I'm not entirely sure speaking as someone who kind of sort of has a mohawk
03-17-09 | 04:21 PM
#82
Ths Hipstr Kills Masheenz
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 8,542
Likes: 4
From: seattle
Bikes: tirove
get a superflash or die trying.
real lights are a must. pedestrians and trees don't move at 15 mph.
if you can't ride 30-40 miles at a slow pace you need to ride more, that's the end of it. biking is great even if you never go more than five miles, but for me i don't feel like i have gotten outside until i've gone ten, especially at a normal leisure-ride pace.
real lights are a must. pedestrians and trees don't move at 15 mph.
if you can't ride 30-40 miles at a slow pace you need to ride more, that's the end of it. biking is great even if you never go more than five miles, but for me i don't feel like i have gotten outside until i've gone ten, especially at a normal leisure-ride pace.
