08-23-2006, 09:45 AM
I think the biggest problem with bikes is that automobile drivers don't know to look for them.
'Seems like 3-4 times a year I *almost* get killed 'cause some idiot tears out of a parking lot or driveway or blows through an intersection or rides up to park on the sidewalk or to pass on the sidewalk without looking to see if a bicyclist or pedestrian is coming.
> I imagine some people on bikes feel a sense of superiority...
What makes me feel superior when I'm on a bike comes from the perspective outside of the regular flow of automobile traffic which offers more opportunities to observe how awful most drivers are.
...Which is the main reason why motorcycles are so friggin' dangerous. Driving AMONG the cars without the protection of a cage of steel around you as the drivers blow through stop signs and stoplights and make illegal turns and ride up on the curb and swerve back and forth between the lanes as they gab on their cell phones or do their makeup or brush their hair or shave or read the newspaper or make-out with their S/O or argue or gesture wildly with both hands or eat a meal or dance to their music or slap the kids around or play video games or watch DVD's or clean the garbage off the floor or clean their glasses or put in eye-drops or take a nap is simply suicide.
'Seems like 3-4 times a year I *almost* get killed 'cause some idiot tears out of a parking lot or driveway or blows through an intersection or rides up to park on the sidewalk or to pass on the sidewalk without looking to see if a bicyclist or pedestrian is coming.
> I imagine some people on bikes feel a sense of superiority...
What makes me feel superior when I'm on a bike comes from the perspective outside of the regular flow of automobile traffic which offers more opportunities to observe how awful most drivers are.
...Which is the main reason why motorcycles are so friggin' dangerous. Driving AMONG the cars without the protection of a cage of steel around you as the drivers blow through stop signs and stoplights and make illegal turns and ride up on the curb and swerve back and forth between the lanes as they gab on their cell phones or do their makeup or brush their hair or shave or read the newspaper or make-out with their S/O or argue or gesture wildly with both hands or eat a meal or dance to their music or slap the kids around or play video games or watch DVD's or clean the garbage off the floor or clean their glasses or put in eye-drops or take a nap is simply suicide.