infinity10 opened this issue on May 30, 2014 · 94 posts
moriador posted Fri, 30 May 2014 at 2:04 PM
Quote - > Quote - I used to bike to work, but I got tired of putting up with people's road rage. Now my bike is sitting on my porch, slowly rusting.
Get that bike back on the road and you can have the last laugh over the driver's graves. Bicycle commuters live longer that those who don't and yes, I have the facts, figures and statistics at hand. I've been commuting on a bicycle for 39 years now and at 58 am still in great shape and the money saved has bought four degrees (one for each member of my family). There are techniques for dealing with pigheaded drivers (a plastic bag filled with paint is a great weapon). This is a subject that I have religious fervour for and am more than willing to give help and suggestions to another cyclist. PM me for all the gory details.
When I used to ride through Houston in the '80s, folks were pretty polite. In the city, bikes were uncommon. Up here (Victoria, BC), 6% of all commutes are by bike, and people are angry. You do see cyclists doing stupid stuff (riding the wrong way down a road, ignoring traffic lights, etc), so they give cyclists a bad name. And drivers are angry. They express that anger by passing you very closely, not looking behind when they open doors, and cutting you off.
I got doored once. My bike was destroyed, and it very nearly got me killed. So if there are cars parked on the side, I don't ride close to them. Drivers hate that. So they are intent on making it dangerous in whatever way they can.
Given that you can kill a cyclist with your car here and suffer nothing more than a few hundred dollar fine, people just don't care. It's not worth the risk to me.
Instead, I run. Takes me 3 times as long, but I still get the fitness benefits. And when I cross the road on a crosswalk, I get to feign a limp and cross v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y as a way to get back at the drivers for making my cycling life so much hell that I quit riding.
Back to the topic at hand... I don't use my M6/V6 characters all that much. Yet. But I expect that will change. Genesis, however, gets quite a bit of use.
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