| Re: Sierra Club -- cycling is scary
On 5 Jan 2005 13:31:24 -0800, "gds" <gary_jill@msn.com> wrote:
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>dgk wrote:
>> On 5 Jan 2005 12:15:10 -0800, "SlowRider" <jrogers80526@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>Last week we had a particularly grisly episode in which a cyclist was
>riding on the shoulder of I-10 at night without lights and got hit by
>several vehicles. The body was so ripped up that it took two days to
>determine its gender!
>Even I, who always wears a helmet, would concede that a helmet would
>not have been of much use. But lights and some judgement - (there is a
>frontage road along that section of the interstate)
>
I once, when young and foolish, hitched along an interstate. The wind
caused by passing trucks could blow a biker right off the shoulder.
You really have to be nuts, or drunk, to try that.
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