verslagen1 wrote on 07/07/15 at 10:26:42:

I had a neighbor who hit the lottery. When I ask him what he was going to do after he told his boss to F.O.A.D., His answer was. " The same thing every other rich guy does. I going to buy a couple of politicians!"

Kris01 wrote on 07/07/15 at 18:06:44:


Interesting point of view.

Please analyze the difference between raincoats and umbrellas.
Since a guy in a raincoat can squeeze past two guys with two umbrellas... should he squeeze past or just get soaked ?

Please analyze the reason behing 4-6 lane highways: why not just two-laners, it's a lot chaper to build two-laners than six-laners!

And why have a back door in the house to get from the kitchen to the back yard... can't you just walk out the front door and walk around the house like normal people do?

Kris... "two vehicles cannot share one lane" is a line written in the 1920's when there were only cars on the road, and precious few 8and slow) motorbikes, and literally no traffic at all.

That line was intended to discipline traffic as it existed way back then, and was simpoly "copy&pasted" for the last 80-odd years.

Trust me, if someone in Congress were to ask a committee of LEOs to re-write the Highway Code from scratch, I bet there would be quite a few novelties around!

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Does this mean you endorse those who change lanes or open their doors suddenly when a bike rides past ?

Does this mean you would do it yourself, out of spite ?  

Wow, all these negative comments! Well, I guess it is TT!

My last word on the subject, I don't lane split. I don't think it falls in line with "naked and invisible". It seems like you are putting yourself in harm's way by riding so close to cars on both sides. If anybody pays for the mistake it will be the guy on the motorcycle. The car drivers are almost unaffected. They might receive scraped paint. The motorcyclist receives a scraped face....or worse.

As I said before, it's not legal around here. Even if it were, I wouldn't do it. I would find a safer way to maneuver through traffic.

Down here in sunny florida they are adding bicycle lanes to the shoulders of the 4 lane.
Not a good idea... 3 cyclists killed already, these folks drive nutz here!

Traffic in the morning going in the east bound lanes is loaded.....west bound in the morning.... 4 or 5 cars every few minutes.
Traffic in the afternoon (4pm to 6:30pm) worse than the morning traffic going east! because all the fools are in a hurry to get home.
There is a fire dept/ambulance building about four blocks from my house and in the afternoon at about 4:30-5:30pm I hear them leave, sirens a blazin'.

Traffic then slows down to a crawl and locks up for about 5 miles ..... next time it happens and i'm on the bike, i'm using the bicycle lane until an officer pulls me over... I will then explain my bike is air cooled and I have no water.
In other words.... i'm going to chance it, instead of sitting still in traffic for an hour or two.
Yeah it takes an hour for me to go four miles to my house.... highway 98 is the ONLY road along this route for about 20 miles, unless I could possibly get to I10 (30 minutes north), to travel to gulfbreeze, then come back home from the west going east, and that would take me about an hour and a half.....
Like I said, next time... I will chance the bicycle lane.....

You didn't ruffle feathers, you made a statement that others didn't agree with and we tried to explain why. If the law says I sit,, ill sit until I think I'm gonna mess up my motor... but if it's legal, I'm cruising,,, if we're riding together  , I'm cruising..

Down here in sunny florida they are adding bicycle lanes to the shoulders of the 4 lane.
Not a good idea... 3 cyclists killed already, these folks drive nutz here!

oh, don't get me started....

We did the same thing around here. Nearby suburb took a 4 lane road with a grass medium and no parking and turned it into a 2 lane with bike lanes to  the right of the driving lane and then a parking lane next to the curb. Predictable results.....

Honestly, how stupid do you have to be to get in positions of power?... Is there a class you have to take (and fail) so you suddenly get to make stupid decisions that ultimately make things worse and (in some cases) get people killed? (Can anyone say Professor Obama....?)

So thanks to progress, we went from 2 lanes to 1, with bikes on the right very close to you because the right lane now has car parking, But they park sporadically so bikers swerve back and forth. Oh, and a$$hole flat bellied bikers in their neon shirts ride side by side so they can chat. so the end results is a former 35 MPH 4 lane road with quite a bit of traffic into a 15 MPH traffic mess...  So cars divert off to parallel side roads that are all filled with families with kids.....

Great freaking idea....  but hey, they get to put up signs saying they are bike friendly.   (as long as that bike doesn't have a motor in it....)

I'm just sick of bicyclist 'share the road' preaching when they do anything but share the road....  someone's going to have to explain to me why a bicyclist has the right to turn a 35mph zone into a 5mph zone....  Most pretentious group of people out there today. (minus gay rights, transgender, blacklivesmatter, handsupdon'tshoot etc....)