XPost: or.general, or.politics   
   From: CorkyK@yahoo.com   
      
   Suddenly, Don Homuth , blurted out the following:   
      
   >On 17 Aug 2006 13:23:42 -0700, "UffDa!"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>lein wrote:   
   >>> It wouldn't be if the bike rider obeyed laws for changing lanes   
   >>> (signaling, waiting until it's safe to do so).   It would be no   
   >>> different than when you drive a car and see debris ahead which requires   
   >>> you to change lanes (debris such as a stopped trimet bus)   
   >>   
   >>Well, it's disconcerting because he flipped unexpetedly.  That's one of   
   >>those freak things.  He clearly did not expect it.   
   >>   
   >>So, if I pass with a foot or two of room, I could be pressing my luck   
   >>(and his!).   
   >   
   >Whenever you drive, you're pressing your luck, assuming a bunch of   
   >things:   
   >   
   >* The driver can see   
   >* Isn't on the cell phone   
   >* The car is in mechanically good condition   
   >* A yellowjacket doesn't fly through the window   
   >* A tire doesn't fail (as one of mine did two weeks ago)   
   >catastrophically   
   >* The idiot two cars ahead of you doesn't do something stupid   
   >* (fill in with your choice of idiocies and happenstances)   
   >   
   >Bicycle riders are no more and no less involved in such things than   
   >are cars.   
   >   
   >Strangely, though, drivers seem to become more annoyed when they have   
   >to watch out for a bicyclist than they do for the other fools on the   
   >road around them.   
   >   
   >I have not (yet, anyway) come across a bicyclist talking on the cell   
   >phone while pedaling down the road.   
      
   Really? I have seen that quite often. Funny actually. Much, much more dangerous   
   than driving and talking.   
      
      
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