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Making the Rest of Us Look Bad

posted Wednesday, 19 April 2006
So there was the guy I saw riding his bike up Penn the wrong way, sans helmet or any other protective gear.  But the one who really annoys me pulled up beside me at a light this morning.  This guy's got all the stuff, down to the Spandex pants with a cushion sewn into the seat and a little blinky light on the back of his bag.  But he also will stop at a stop light, wait till the crossing cars are past, and then go through.  I'm gonna say he missed the part where the law's the same for bikes as for cars.  If it were just that he's going to get himself smeared all over the street someday, I wouldn't care; what gets to me is that he makes the rest of us look bad...

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1. tangerinepenguin left...
Wednesday, 19 April 2006 1:34 pm

Do you know about Bike Pittburgh (http://www.bike-pgh.org/)? I knew the guy who founded it, and it was aimed at a pretty solid mix of cyclist advocacy and bike safety.