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In article <laskaCzJE3n.H5H@netcom.com>, laska@netcom.com (Andrew Laska) writes...
>Belding, Troy C. (troy@rosie.uh.edu) wrote:
> 
>: Not true.  Bicylists are not required to use the shoulder, only advised to
>: do so.  My point has been in this thread that bicylists DO NOT FOLLOW 
>: THE REGULATIONS THEY ARE REQUIRED TO.  I don't care if you personally
>: do.  What I am talking about is what I see on the road.  Cyclists on 
>: the wrong side of the road, no reflectors, no lights, dark clothing, 
>: refusing to give ROW, refusing to STOP AT STOP SIGNS, refusing to 
>: walk their bikes at intersections.... I could go on for days.
> 
>It could go on for days. Basically you have a chip on your shoulder. No 
>locale requires people to walk their bikes across intersections. I have 
>no doubt that you see ANY bike on the roadway and you say 'There is 
>another law breaking biker,' while you speed down the road doing 40 in a 
>30 and rolling slowly through the next stop sign.
> 
>Your comments show that you are not only ignorant of state and local law 
>concerning bicycles, you are ignorant of what is safe behaviour of a 
>bicycle on the roadway. 
> 
Obviously not as ignorant as you.  Yes, many, if not most of automobile
drivers break the law.  But, unlike the bikers I often see, they are
at least aware of their surroundings.  The most blatant example are 
all of the bikers on the wrong side of the road. 

Go by your local library and look in their books of statutes on bicyles.
Vernon's would be a good one, although that is primarily Texas.  We are 
all limited by our research, and our local knowledge, but at least I 
try to be more aware.  

To be honest, if there is noone else on the road, or quite a distance
between us, I really dont give a sh*t what a bicylist, car driver, or 
twinkie on a skateboard does!  But when they don't even show common
sense (as in the joggers that jog on a busy road when an empty sidewalk
is six feet away), then I get really offended.  All insults aside, I 
have yet to see a cop go after a cyclist for anything more than chaining
his bike to a traffic sign.


>I could say that every time I drive my car I see a motorist breaking the 
>law but I do not see cyclists breaking the law everytime. Therefore, we 
>should abolish all motor vehicle rights from roadways. The suggestion I 
>make is STUPID although my observations are true. Your suggestions from 
>your limited scope of the world (and vivid imagination) are as equally 
>stupid.
> 
>Andrew
> 
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I'll get a life when it is proven          Troy C. Belding
and substantiated to be better             TROY@JETSON.UH.EDU
than what I am currently                   My statements and opinions are not
experiencing.				   those of this institution.
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