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Article #22Re: Bikes Serious Transportation? (was Bike AND Rail Trails)
From: Tim May
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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In article <37ba298d.450778@news.got.net>, jrd+usenet@enclave.org (J.R. Dean) wrote: > There's a biddy who drives from Felton to Boulder Creek, and vice > versa, in her brown beater mobile (an old Impala, I believe). It > belches smoke, and she always drives at least 10 miles under the speed > limit, though usually more. > > I've driven behind this woman a few times. She tends to weave a > little bit anyway, but on two occasions I've observed her taking a > bead on cyclists and *swerving* toward them. On one occasion, when I > was biking 9, she pulled the same stunt on me. Kathy was trained in driving by Glen. > Here are some other indicators that some of these near misses are > deliberate. I've seen this stunt most often pulled by a carload of > kids. They drive as close to a cyclist as possible, and then either > yell into the cyclists ear, literally just inches away, or they whack > the cyclist on the rear or some other available body location. > > Deliberate? You bet. > As Kathy puts it, she's got a long way to go to catch up with Glen's record of two-wheeler road kills. You would have known all about this had you gone to some of the Boulder Creek Brewing Company drinking fests. Six pitchers amongst the half dozen or so of us...then we did a race up to Skyline and back. A few spokeheads, but not enough. --Tim May -- Don't tread on me. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,ba1f440f5a9d9f9a X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: 10e08b,ba1f440f5a9d9f9a X-Google-Attributes: gid10e08b,public X-Google-Thread: 10decc,ba1f440f5a9d9f9a X-Google-Attributes: gid10decc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d50a,ba1f440f5a9d9f9a X-Google-Attributes: gid10d50a,public X-Google-Thread: f437d,ba1f440f5a9d9f9a X-Google-Attributes: gidf437d,public From: tcmay@got.net (Tim May) Subject: Re: Bikes Serious Transportation? (was Bike AND Rail Trails) Date: 1999/08/17 Message-ID: <tcmay-1708992053430001@dyn-207-111-242-189.sjc.got.net> X-Deja-AN: 514068780 References: <davidb.934487024@ricochet.net> <davidb.934818703@ricochet.net> <7p9rjc$l8u@dfw-ixnews21.ix.netcom.com> <37ba87c8.1371171@news.got.net> <7pag9u$8re$1@vax.area.com> <37B97D19.E1CD223C@texas.net> <37ba298d.450778@news.got.net> X-Trace: typ12.nn.bcandid.com 934948448 207.111.242.189 (Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:54:08 EDT) Organization: Entropic NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 23:54:08 EDT Newsgroups: scruz.general,rec.bicycles.misc,ba.bicycles,rec.bicycles.soc,ba.transportation