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On 4/19/2025 11:41 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:39:39 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/19/2025 4:34 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:38:50 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:02:10 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 4/18/2025 8:12 PM, John B. wrote:
>>>>>>    
>>>>>> Hmm "Free speech scares some people"? I don't know about "scares" but
>>>>>> Frankie's free speech calling you a coward certainly set you off.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, it happened before that! Our timid tricycle rider entered his
>>>>> permanent snit before I ever used the word "coward."
>>>>>
>>>>> He was highly offended when I suggested he lacked the courage or
>>>>> competence to ride normal roads, and that his back-and-forth path riding
>>>>> might be OK for him, but too boring for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Remember, my statement was in response to a guy who said there was no
>>>>> way riding near cars could be safe; and who can't even summon the nerve
>>>>> to ride an empty suburban bike trail without having deadly weaponry
>>>>> immediately at hand, chambered and ready to fire.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not seeing any evidence of courage there.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I seem to remember that you approved the young folks who ran away to
>>>> Canada in terror rather then serve in the Vietnam war...
>>>> Strange isn't it you condone cowardice among those you describes as
>>>> "not agreeing with the war" and you now condemn a chap who rides his
>>>> tricycle alone on a bike path.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not seeing any evidence of courage there but I am seeing a great
>>>> deal of bigotry. "Frank Bigotski" as it were.
>>>
>>> Krygowski seems to think riding a bicycle among "people of other
>>> races" is something special to be bragged about.
>>>
>>> "Today I'm planning a solo ride through the inner city, partly to
>>> visit a new library on the far side of town. I'll be riding on <gasp!>
>>> ordinary streets. Many of those streets will have <oh my!> people of
>>> other races living there."
>>> --Frank Krygowski
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/Zu_BtGgv8Fs/m/vkwxt_GNBQAJ?hl=en&hl=en
>>
>> Anyone with sufficient experience in conversation with other humans
>> could tell the "gasp!" and "oh my!" labeled that as sarcasm, meaning my
>> ride was nothing scary at all.
>>
>> Those who habitually avoid speaking to others are understandably confused.
>>
>> Let's remember that before I retired, I rode my bike to and from work
>> through the inner city very, very frequently. Including <gasp!> at
>> night.   ;-)
> 
> Riding where people of other races live is not significant to mention
> for us non bigots... I do it on most every ride... and walk. I don't
> live in a lilly-white neighborhood like you do.
> 
> Back when I was growing up many of the kids I hung out with were black
> because there was a mostly black neighborhood adjoining our farm. My
> mother taught school and had many of those kids in her classes. I'd
> have been punished had I ever shown the bigotry you have.
> 
> ....neither is riding at night significant. I've also done it many
> times throughout my long history of bike riding... and no, that was
> all back before I carried a gun.
> 
> --
> C'est bon
> Soloman

Riding near other races?  Troglodytes? Extraterrestrials? 
Zombies?  Yikes!  Riding among humans is scary enough!

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Andrew Muzi
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