Don Whitehead
what actually scares me the most on the two lane semi-rural roads that I'm
on is that cars overcompensate by moving way into the opposing lane when
passing, but without regard for oncoming traffic. I know that if push comes
to shove the car is going to come back towards me if the opposing traffic
doesn't give way to the passing car.
Don
2009/2/23 Randy Dreiling
> True
> Plus as some one that lives in a rural area I get sick of the labels we
> get...I know it is big city cool or something to lump us all together as
> backwards ass rednecks but that is total BS.
>
> I ran into far more jack asses while riding in town.
>
> Take Care
>
> Randy Dreiling
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* "chood1@comcast.net"
> *To:* hrdtduck
> *Cc:* obra@list.obra.org; Jeff Edes
> *Sent:* Monday, February 23, 2009 12:37:50 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [OBRA Chat] Another near miss? Or mis-judgement?
>
> Have you ever counted, or taken thought, of all the drivers that pass you
> by without incident? Have you counted the ones that pass you while moving
> over into the other lane, or honk their horn nicely to let you know they are
> there? Have you ever counted all the cars/drivers that simply notice you and
> let you be? Have you counted the number of days without incident? I bet you
> would get tired of counting and lose track within the first 10 minutes of
> your early city commute.
>
> Thing is, you can go months, years without incident but it takes just one
> person to screw that all up. Don't give up hope because of a few
> knuckleheads out there. Remember that the number of decent people on the
> road far exceeds the number of troublemakers.
>
> I still have hope and I agree that one must be persistent in getting the
> offenders corrected through the proper channels.
>
> Good Luck
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "hrdtduck"
> To: "Steve' 'Long" , "Jeff Edes" <
> Edes101@yahoo.com>, obra@list.obra.org
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:28:03 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Another near miss? Or mis-judgement?
>
> Yea I get it and I'd hope to see some improvement over the last 25+
> years...but I have ridden in a lot of states and it is all the same...you
> take your life in your hands and trust to the decency of others when you
> ride the road....Not trying to be a downer, ...I had high hope for the last
> "gas crisis", that more people would get on a bike to save money, thus get
> to experience what we road regulars have to endure daily.....but it was
> pretty short lived, and desperate hope.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Long, Steve [mailto:Steve.Long@clark.wa.gov]
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:20 PM
> To: hrdtduck; Jeff Edes; obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: RE: [OBRA Chat] Another near miss? Or mis-judgement?
>
> Remind's me of a story I once heard of a young boy walking along the
> beach picking up star fish and tossing them back into the water. An old
> man happened by and said to the boy, young man, why are you tossing the
> star fish back into the water, it can't possibly make a different
> considering the magnitude of them that wash ashore? The young boy look
> down at the star fish in his hand and exclaimed, it makes a difference
> to this one.
>
> Moral of story, one-at-a-time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> Behalf Of hrdtduck
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:14 PM
> To: 'Jeff Edes'; obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Another near miss? Or mis-judgement?
>
> Short of shooting them in the head...how can we make them change...I've
> tried nearly everything else...polite discourse does not work....beating
> them up feels really good...but most are darn hard to catch...I am not
> sure there is anything that can be done...the main reason I started
> riding mountain bikes back in the early 80s
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: obra-bounces@list.obra.org [mailto:obra-bounces@list.obra.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeff Edes
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:21 AM
> To: obra@list.obra.org
> Subject: Re: [OBRA Chat] Another near miss? Or mis-judgement?
>
> These drivers need to realize that they have no right to deliberately
> endanger law abiding citizens. We are getting hurt and killed on our own
> roads, by people that have somehow convinced themselves that we have no
> right to be there. Prosecute this person to the full extent of the law.
> Keep us posted... if you have legal fees to deal with I will be the
> first to help out. Every cyclist on the road needs to take a stand
> against this behavior.
>
> Jeff Edes
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