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Detroit, 10:17 PM
Tue Nov 24
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"40 oz To Freedom" should have been front and centre.
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Correct. They do a "veiw and brew".
08/16/09
Share the Road goes both ways.
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"Look, traffic is moving, I'm a vehicle now!"
"Look, traffic has stopped, I'll just zip on up between the right lane and the curb, and yell at anyone who dares to put their right signal on and let someone out..."
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I am in no way a hipster, I hate the idea of a fixie or single speed and I frown upon blocking traffic, riding against traffic in the wrong bike lane or hogging the lane while others are clearly breathing down your neck because your pants are too tight to allow you to spin 50KRPM's because of your poor choice in gearing.
I've got a 28 speed mountainbike with lockout f/r suspension so I can quickly go from solid road commuter to offroad blitzer should I absolutely need to. Which happens all the time on my 6.5 mile commute through Lubbock.
My car is soon to be back on the road, H/C/I/full exhaust & 3800 stall on a V6 Firebird. I probably doubled my carbon footprint with the new setup. I feed the trees, these guys use it for shade, they should thank me.
08/15/09
Single-speeds are for those useless BMX bikes and for kids with training wheels, and fixies are a fine source of karma - if you're dumb enough to make one, hopefully you're also dumb enough to put meat-grinder pedals on it to aid its quest to destroy your spindly legs.
Also, I'm in the minority in that I insist on following all traffic laws (aside from the occasional uphill stop sign, but I still look for and yield to other traffic).
And I drive a Volvo 240, which gets about 23 miles per gallon and is damn proud of it.
08/15/09
But I agree.. Fixies are for fools who are deluding themselves into thinking they're some sort of rebels or part of some counter-culter... kind of like most of the noisy-pipe Harley riders.
08/15/09
I have always been amazed as a driver the absolute boldness with how rude some cyclists can be. Its as if they actually enjoy getting in the way of cars or making them slow down.
08/15/09
I avoid roads with high speed limits and no shoulder. It seems like the sensible thing to do, but some people don't understand that. Of course, they don't understand my standard hand signals, either.
My only real cycling-unique pet peeve is cars that race around me to a stop sign when I'm travelling uphill. As above, my usual practice on uphill grades is to treat all stop signs as yield signs and watch carefully for traffic; unless I'm turning left or the vehicle is turning right, I simply signal and continue around them on the right. That's the only thing I do that can be construed as a 'dick move'.
08/15/09
In regards to hand signals, I just assumed that drivers were idiots and had no idea what the real ones meant, so I just used whichever arm applied to the direction I was turning, I figured it takes the guesswork and chance of a miscommunication out of it.
There was a one-way street which was more of just a wide alley, that I would intentially go the opposite way on. Cars typically couldn't exceed 5mph on it since there were stop signs every 25 yards.
In only a few situations would I ride aggressively, but one was at a traffic light where I knew the car that was first in line would likely be turning right. So to avoid being cut-off I put myself way out into the cross-walk, so that they would A. See me and B. I would be able to almost be halfway across the road before the car could even drift from a stop.
I usually didn't follow the law in most situations, as I found that it put me in more danger than doing things the way that made sense.
08/16/09
Also, sorry, but I can't stand motorists who complain about cyclists not following the rules of the road. Sorry, but I drive too, and +10mph over the limit is the normal speed, turn signals are an endangered species, and "slower traffic keeps right" is an elegant concept from a more civilized age.
08/15/09
I told them no way. If it was for a bike ride along Woodward, more power to them and I would gladly hang the flier, but since their intentions were juvenile, they could hang it elsewhere. The guy got a little ticked and speed walked out.
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