• At 17, I bought a bike, and immediately upon learning of it, my folks bought me a car!
"Just
say 'bike'"?
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Originally Posted by secondcurve
Bikes are great fun but I won't allow my kids to ride them nor will I ever ride a bike again. The advent of cell phones has made riding a bike way too dangerous in my opinion. The risk reward no longer makes sense. Just say no to bikes.
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• The above warning is justified. This winter, my NH-seacoast neighbor trailered a new bike to his Florida place, looked around and decided, "Too much alcohol, too much dope, I'm selling this bike, though I enjoy riding it".
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Originally Posted by VitaBene
To be real clear, you were the driver who did not see the motorcycle in front of the truck. The bumper sticker is aimed at you.
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• Funny, I thought the bumper sticker was aimed at
all of us—although seemingly
not including the truck it's on. Those with that bumper sticker are most often poor-handling trucks or vans with the usual habits of following too closely and "cutting off" others after passing.
The irony is rich.
• As a passenger, with a neighbor driving, we had a very close call simply by pulling out onto a quiet two-lane highway at the exact moment a biker did the same thing from the opposite side. The Toyota's "A-pillar" was a modern wide one, and blocked the dirt bike. It was to have been a head-on collision, if the front seat passenger hadn't yelled,
"STOP! STOP!", we would have had the helmetless biker through our windshield. It was the closest call with a biker I've ever been witness to.
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