| Re: Sierra Club -- cycling is scary
> If the law says it is so
> then so be it. I just have visions of getting creamed somewhere tha
> i
> so far out you wind up as road paste before someone figures out tha
> wa
> a human and not a deer that was hit
> You guys win, but I will stick to the mountain bike for my thrills an
> avoid those cars and trucks doing 80 in a 65 because there are no
> enough police to patrol
> I was rr,rrr, wrong
> Bill Baka
It is legal as needed, but I fully agree on it not always being th
wise option. I do agree also with the idea that the number of accident
would be lower on a highway than elsewhere, due to the fact that th
high speed drivers are in thier line and vary little. The shoulders ar
indeed huge, so long as there aren't any re-treads and glass in them.
To be hit at such velocity would certainly be fatal, but the risk
thing is far greater where we all ride, normal roads. The roads tha
have little or no shoulder, and curve in all manners not conducive t
sight.
AKA, what I commute on. 35mph speed limit, but no safer in my view
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Conniebiker
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