Comments on: Oh Hell No

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:29:10 +0000

In some defense of bikers (the motorized type) – while this moron very likely was riding in the bicycle lane and deserves to have a padlock latched securely through the heat expansion holes in his brake discs, not all fatalities are due to stunters and in-town speedsters. Even the single vehicle motorcycle accidents are frequently caused by car drivers who are no more interested in motorized two-wheelers than they are in pedal powered ones. I dumped my old bike on the 405 in the carpool lane in what would qualify as a single vehicle accident that was entirely due to the SUV that felt it was so urgent to enter at the dotted line that she swerved over in front of me going 15 mph slower without even looking. Unfortunately the stunters live through their accidents more often than us responsible riders because the muscle relaxants they’re on allow them to hit the ground and roll with it rather than try to fight it, much the same as when drunk drivers walk away from accidents that kill their victims.

And yep, I do hate that those jack@$$es give responsible riders a bad name…

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By: Linda Brown

Linda Brown — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:31:28 +0000

I heard something like the last 15 traffic fatalities in the City have all been drivers of motorcycles.

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By: Jim Farley

Jim Farley — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:04:16 +0000

BTW Jeff:

It looks like this is the year me and Mrs. Farley are going to finally buy bicycles. It’s been a while since I gave my 1960s style Schwinn Varsity to Saint Vincent DePaul. We may be seeing you out on the streets/trails. Your bicycle enthusiasm has been influential on me. So I swear we are going to buy bikes this year – I swear I swear I swear.

Hope I can follow through on that……

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By: Jim Farley

Jim Farley — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:56:18 +0000

Sorry to get a bit more serious folks but I’ve seen the results of a couple of motorcycle accidents over the last couple of years. Many of these floks on their ‘rice-rockets’ are insane. Take a look at the traffic fatalities stats below. Automobile accidents per mile driven are going down yearly since 1994. Motorcycle fatalities have more than doubled since 1994. (This is shown in the large number of motorcycle fatalities in the SCV in the last few years). Bicycle fatalities are relatively flat at 700 – 800 per year nationwide. We don’t need motorcycle knuckleheads like this guy trying to take a bicyclist out with him so he can increase the stats for bicyclers.

http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

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By: Townbeet

Townbeet — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:37:15 +0000

hahahha
Bike Lane Fail!

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By: John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:21:11 +0000

I can’t believe I did not get that one? I thought for sure it was the fool is wearing a jacket in during the worst case of man made global warming in 70,000 years. must be a government test were you need to pick the BEST right answer?

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By: cash

cash — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:06:39 +0000

That’s easy; the paint used to create the bike lane!

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By: navigator

navigator — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:06:54 +0000

Spot on Jeff

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By: Spineflower2

Spineflower2 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:04:19 +0000

I could be realy snide and state that the object in the photo that doesn’t belong is the bike lane itself, but then Jeff might ban me for life!

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:01:47 +0000

navigator, surely you must not like that stunt bike and sport bike riders give all motorcyclists a bad name…

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