They recently found that rideing as little as 15 minutes a day could almost completely remove the effects of alzheimers(sp).
The longer a person rode the more it seemed to help and the longer they went, able to act and function pretty much normaly.
The hope is it might work with stroke victims ect as well.
They dont know WHY it works though.

Myself i say we just up the cyclist worth from 10 to 15 points in a game of roadkill and keep playing...lol

Actualy the ones that bug me the most is the 14-15 year old girl in shorts and a t-shirt WITH a passanger, no helmets, probably no license, definitely lil experiance and buzzing down the road at 60 or 70 mph or through traffic in town.

ArGaT wrote on 07/13/10 at 12:01:46:

Yeah, in Illinois you are not allowed to filter, split lanes, share lanes etc. The problem is people who think that you should share lanes when they want you to share, but not when it would be convenient or advantageous to a Motorcyclist or Bike rider. I guess a lot of them would probably say that MC and Bike riders should not be on public roads. And if you pull out and around one of those and try to re-enter at the front of the queue, you would be likely to get run over, or at least get honked/yelled at. I've had people open doors, swerve over, throw things at me and one guy pulled up beside me in a green pick-up truck - somethings you don't forget, and deliberately ran me off the road. The road was pretty much empty, and had two lanes in each direction. I was doing about 40 mph downhill and didn't see the parallel grate in front of me. Bystanders said I flew about 25 feet before landing and then rolling/sliding to a stop. They thought I was dead, but I was just laying there taking inventory. Turns out I had road rash, but no serious injuries.

Youzguys -
As far as passing on secondary roads in Illinois, the no passing zones indicate when it is too dangerous to pass, because of line of sight etc.,  but there are very few of them that extend for any distance (making it easy to get around any vehicle that is going 5mph). Most of our secondary roads are way too narrow to allow three vehicles side by side, even if one is a bicycle, so passing in these areas is just asking eventually to run into a head-on collision or to side swipe someone. Also, the shoulders on a lot of Illinois roads are non-existent so moving over to allow someone to "play through" your lane means that you are in the ditch. I've never run into the situation that you describe in Texas. Probably because when I visited Texas I've usually been in fairly heavily populated areas or travelling from city to city, so even the secondary roads tended to be fairly straight with plenty of areas to pass, or multiple lanes in each direction. Any road in Illinois that had 20 miles of no passing double yellow lines probably wouldn't be safe at much over 5 mph in any case.

I ride bicycle 6 miles a day 7 days a week I ride in town always, I never stop a stop signs,I have trails 2 blocks from my house their hundreds of miles of trails here in wisconsin and illinois .I wouldn't be seen with those goofy helmets. I never ride the trails hardly.

Just as cars and trucks ignore the motorcyclist the bicyclist is little more than an after thought. If you have ridden in traffic for a few years you know that the laws were written for four wheel vehicles, and following them to the letter is he quickest way I know of to become a statistic. I try to keep in mind that pedestrian traffic, and bicycle traffic came way before vehicular traffic.
I rode a bicycle in traffic in downtown Tampa for two years. During this time I witnessed one man being rundown and was in several very close calls. I learned pretty quickly that following rules written for cars was a quick ticket to the hospital.
I would ask you to cut the bicyclist some slack. Bikes and motorcycles have a different set of dynamics and need a different set of rules.