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Article #2Re: SUVs are predators; bicycles are prey
From: gregcone
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:30
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:30
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Jeff Strickland wrote: > Would you have posted this tragic story if the automobile was was a Mustang > or Camaro or Porsche? SUV's take up an extra foot and a half of space, more than enough room to fit a bike. I remembered when I first started bicycling years ago that the most frightening sight, the big shark fin to someone on a bike, was a Plymouth Fury III, wandering from side to side, seemingly driverless, coming up from behind. As it approaches, you could make out a pair of smudgy-scratched-out-40yrs-out-of-prescription glasses peering from under the steering wheel... Anyway, it like that now with SUV's, only they make up 40% of vehicles on the road. Worse, they're being driven by a group of driver (a group I don't wish to describe) who think their monstrosity of a vehicle will be cut in half if they drift toward the line painted down the middle of the road rather than killing the bicyclist on the right. Personally, I can't wait until all the world's oil is used up and we're forced to drive those stylish French air-pressure cars.
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