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   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   cor  wrote:   
      
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   > Paulapalooooozaa wrote:   
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   >> Something that I've always wondered about, a habit of bicyclists I've   
   >> seen across the country. In most states there are bike lanes next to   
   >> the road. You would expect that people would ride in the middle of   
   >> them, like cars ride in the middle of the car lanes. Often I see   
   >> people riding on the outside edge and are often very close to cars as   
   >> they pass. Is this something they do on purpose? Is it just lazy   
   >> bicyclists? Or is it that these people are just ignorant?   
   >>   
   >> I would think that people would want to stay as far away from traffic   
   >> as possible.   
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   > I think your question is better answered by you getting off your heavy   
   > butt and taking a ride in a bicycle.   
   > have you runed over one recently?   
   > Because around here, drunk drivers kill a bicyclist every year or so.   
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   Up here it's around 4-6 per year.   
      
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