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Skriven 2008-02-03 23:29:00 av BOB GEARHART (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOAN MACDIARMID
Ärende: Re: Bicycles
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 Joan Macdiarmid said to Bob Gearhart at 02-02-08  16:20
 Subject: Re: Bicycles<Joan Macdiarmid>

 JM> Hi, Bob,
 
 Hi Joan

 JM> Ha! Sorry, I read and reply offline. I don't do links.

 I wish I knew how to get the echoes in Outlook Express but I'm still
 doing them as QWK downloads to BlueWave same as long ago.

 JM> I hope you were having fun. I don't see much use for
 JM> more than about 3 gears, and I don't want to learn
 JM> to mess with fancy levers to control them all.

 Yes,  it's all a game, and games are fun right.

 BG> Those Raleigh's are far to expensive for me.  I buy mine at K-Mart
 BG> and they last a long time.   Once they get all rusty I don't even have
 BG> to bother with chaining it up.

 JM> I do appreciate the lack of theft value of my older
 JM> bikes, though I try not to let them get rusty. Mine
 JM> come inside. I never had a Raleigh, but knowing how
 JM> long I keep things, the extra expense might have
 JM> been justifiable. Hmmm. Maybe I actually did have
 JM> one, the first adult-sized bike my parents got me
 JM> when I was about 12YO. I used that through my
 JM> undergraduate years but couldn't take it to my
 JM> grad school. My idiot youngest brother "borrowed"
 JM> it without permission for his girlfriend, they
 JM> left it unlocked and it was stolen.
 
 I had a Packard second car I loved.  Then my kid borrowed it one day
 while I was at work, took it downtown Detroit and had it stolen. So I
 know how you felt.
                   
 BG> Do you ride in the snow, grandson and I started that last storm.  We
 BG> did not get very far but it was fun.  Flatlander's toys.  :)

 JM> No, not in the snow. It slews out under the
 JM> wheels too unpredictably. I did find I could ride
 JM> on relatively smooth ice, though. You have to be
 JM> slow and careful on turns.

 My bike has big knobby tires on it, snow tires are nothing for gripping
 compared to these babies.  Great for riding in the mud on off road
 trails, but very hard to lean back and ride no hands going down the
 street.  :)

 SD> It's not safe to ride a bicycle around here due to traffic.
 
 BG> I would never ride my bike on the street.  Far to many women driving
 BG> around in tanks while running off at the mouth on their cell phones
 BG> at the same time they are screaming at their little moments of
 BG> abandon in the back seat.   You could get killed riding in the street.

 JM> In my state, bicycles are expected to be on
 JM> the road, not the walks. But I choose my roads
 JM> carefully. I feel fairly safe in the residential
 JM> neighborhood nearby because half the homes have
 JM> kids playing street hockey at the time I am
 JM> riding around. The parents are careful because
 JM> it's their kids playing in the roadway. Also, I
 JM> have access to a 5-mile bike trail within a mile,
 JM> reachable by such residential roads.

 We have bike paths and all that, parts of the road marked off for
 bikes.  That makes no difference to some air head not paying attention to
 what they are doing.   I'd rather get a ticket than get dead.  I havn't
 had a ticket yet.
                    
 JM> Why do you presume the road hazards are all women?
 JM> I have felt more threat from males in pick-up
 JM> trucks who think it's funny to "buzz" a cyclist
 JM> while making rude comments out the windows.

 Maybe I'm not as cute as you Joan.  But I am pretty darn cute, so maybe
 that's why those women try to run me off the road.  :)  I drive during
 working hours when all the responsible people are off at their jobs.
 That's when the wife left at home decides to go play on the highways,
 so that's what I run into, or rather runs into me.  :)


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