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From: Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Let's hide the bicyclists behind parked cars. What could go wrong?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:55:50 -0500
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> On 1/14/2025 10:38 AM, cyclintom wrote:
>> On Sun Jan 12 21:50:39 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:
>>>
>>> It sounds and looks like a freeway. I've ridden freeways, mostly out in
>>> the western U.S. states, when there were no alternatives.
>>>
>>> That lack of alternatives generally makes bicycling on freeways legal.
>>> If traffic was low, it could be pleasant, and my wife and kid both
>>> preferred it because gradients were less than on smaller roads.
>>>
>>> I prefer quieter roads, as I've said. But I do ride 55 mph four lanes
>>> from time to time. I do ride lane center, and often do so even if
>>> there's a shoulder, because shoulders gather too much flat-causing
>>> debris. It's generally not a problem, and it's never generated even a
>>> close call for me. But I know it scares some people. I've known people
>>> who were terrified to ride on any four lane road, even a local one with
>>> a 40 mph speed limit and low traffic!
>> People are allowed to hold different opinions than you. Since you
>> haven't noticed, you are not an opinion maker.
>
> And we are here to discuss facts and opinions, are we not?

We are here, in the immortal words I once heard Kurt Vonnegut say, "to
fart around".  Just as with bicycles or anything else, motivations vary.

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