Edward Dolan
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
"Jeff Grippe" <jeff@door7.com> wrote in message
news:13aesd9p750fu3c@news.supernews.com...
ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!
> I'm sure you are right and even though I love to cycle, I'm not going to
> play in traffic. At some point I'm just going to have to move closer to
> the rail trails. You are correct that my risk assessment is probably
> incorrect.
>
> Jeff
Jeff is quite right to want to be cautious. I have been telling the members
of these freaking cycling newsgroups for year to be careful when mixing with
motor vehicles. When you are experiencing pain and misery every day of your
life as a result of an accident with a motor vehicle you will just naturally
want to avoid a repeat of that experience.
Bike paths are the way to go and surely in the future there will be
thousands and thousands of miles of such paths everywhere. The fact is that
none of us are safe on the roads and highways where we have to share the
lane with motor vehicles.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
> "Peter Clinch" <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:5gm1i1F3g7u1uU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Jeff Grippe wrote:
>>> "Edward Dolan" <edolan@iw.net> wrote in message
>>> news:vqudnVAxToMCaTnbnZ2dnUVZ_v-hnZ2d@prairiewave.com...
>>>
>>>> Why the hell would anyone except an idiot want to drive these very
>>>> small distances?
>>>
>>> Because I will never share a road again with cars in this country. I
>>> believe that even in Worthington, it isn't safe It may be an
>>> exceptionally low number of people that are involved in bike/car
>>> accidents but trust me, You don't want to be the person on the bike.
>>
>> Look at the numbers of people who get totalled while driving or riding in
>> cars. That isn't safe either (especially when they get hit by
>> trucks...).
>>
>> While your own personal misfortune will have an understandably big impact
>> on your risk assessments, it is the case that it's a bad way to play the
>> odds for any subsequent events.
news:13aesd9p750fu3c@news.supernews.com...
ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!
> I'm sure you are right and even though I love to cycle, I'm not going to
> play in traffic. At some point I'm just going to have to move closer to
> the rail trails. You are correct that my risk assessment is probably
> incorrect.
>
> Jeff
Jeff is quite right to want to be cautious. I have been telling the members
of these freaking cycling newsgroups for year to be careful when mixing with
motor vehicles. When you are experiencing pain and misery every day of your
life as a result of an accident with a motor vehicle you will just naturally
want to avoid a repeat of that experience.
Bike paths are the way to go and surely in the future there will be
thousands and thousands of miles of such paths everywhere. The fact is that
none of us are safe on the roads and highways where we have to share the
lane with motor vehicles.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
> "Peter Clinch" <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:5gm1i1F3g7u1uU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Jeff Grippe wrote:
>>> "Edward Dolan" <edolan@iw.net> wrote in message
>>> news:vqudnVAxToMCaTnbnZ2dnUVZ_v-hnZ2d@prairiewave.com...
>>>
>>>> Why the hell would anyone except an idiot want to drive these very
>>>> small distances?
>>>
>>> Because I will never share a road again with cars in this country. I
>>> believe that even in Worthington, it isn't safe It may be an
>>> exceptionally low number of people that are involved in bike/car
>>> accidents but trust me, You don't want to be the person on the bike.
>>
>> Look at the numbers of people who get totalled while driving or riding in
>> cars. That isn't safe either (especially when they get hit by
>> trucks...).
>>
>> While your own personal misfortune will have an understandably big impact
>> on your risk assessments, it is the case that it's a bad way to play the
>> odds for any subsequent events.