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Author: ZBicyclistZBicyclist
Date: Sep 6, 2008 16:50
Reposted from another newsgroup.
Columnist Robert Novak had a widely reported "hit and run"
accident -- he hit a pedestrian and drove away, and a bicyclist
flagged him down. Here's his side of this story:
>
> http://www.creators.com/opinion/robert-novak.html
> #begin quote
> The main reason I am writing this column is that many people have
> asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor
> and what I have done about it.
>
> But I also want to relate the reaction to my disease, mostly
> compassionate, that belies Washington's reputation.
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> The first sign that I was in trouble came on Wednesday, July 23,
> when my 2004 black Corvette struck a pedestrian on 18th Street in
> downtown Washington while I was on my way to my office.
>
> I did not realize I had hit anyone until a shirt-sleeved young man
> on a bicycle, whom I incorrectly thought to be a bicycle ...
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Author: ComandanteBananaComandanteBanana
Date: Sep 6, 2008 12:22
(No don't go the easy way and assume they are stupid. There may be
other rational explanations for them not doing the obvious thing)
Some argue that people should be riding bikes on the road, period. Not
very clever. Well, since nearly 99%% of people don't ride bikes to
work, there must be some good reason for it. Perhaps PEOPLE ARE AFRAID
to share the roads with our reckless, sometime criminal drivers,
perhaps they are plain stupid, or perhaps they are lazy couch potatoes
who won't even go the supermarket on bikes...
Thus we put this poll so that a solution is found once the revolution
is in place. ;)
Of course, the revolution will not be motorized.
The Poll is being taken here...
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=462492
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Author: Edward DolanEdward Dolan
Date: Sep 6, 2008 04:10
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> Chalo Colina wrote:
>> [...]
>> The BikeE is violently unstable. Its front end has an intrinsic
>> tendency to whip to the side and dig in at an oblique angle from the
>> direction of travel. If this were allowed to happen at speed, it
>> inevitably would result in a crash. The range of steering angle
>> within which it does not try to flop the front wheel one way or the
>> other is so narrow as to be like balancing on a knife edge.
>> Increasing speed does not have a pronounced stabilizing effect on the
>> BikeE as it usually does on a poorly configured, unstable but
>> otherwise normal bike.[...]
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> This does not describe the handling of any of the several BikeE models I
> have ridden, but then I am not 2 meters tall, nor do I have a mass of
> ca. 170 kg. I believe that Chalo was both too tall and too heavy for the
> BikeE CT. ...
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Author: Edward DolanEdward Dolan
Date: Sep 6, 2008 03:53
comcast.net> wrote in message
news:n0u2c4d5shadrtcqmju70295jkqua3rikg@4ax.com...
>>'Bents seem to be in a state of development comparable to where normal
>>bicycles were in the 1870s-- there is no real consensus as to the best
>>configuration for a 'bent, and nobody has yet succeeded in making one
>>that clearly demonstrates the inferiority of other basic designs.
>
> Dear Chalo,
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> That's an interesting comparison.
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> Velocipedes were the first bicycles with pedals. They appeared in the
> 1860s and looked like huge, clumsy modern bicycles with a crank
> attached to the front wheel.
>
> By the early 1870s, velocipedes had evolved into highwheelers.
> ...
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Author: Barry HarmonBarry Harmon
Date: Sep 5, 2008 11:50
The New York Times reports that the city is expected to drop the charges
against Christopher Long, the bicycle rider charged with attempted assault,
resisting arrest and disorderly conduct on July 25 during a Critical Mass
ride.
Normal Seigel, a civil rights lawyer representing several CM riders said,
"I think they should give serious consideration to bringing perjury and
assault charges against the cop."
This appears to be heading for further law suits against the officer and
the city. Mister Long's lawyer said he planned to sue the city.
This turn of events is especially interesting in light of the preventive
detentions and other police actions in both Denver and St Paul.
Barry Harmon
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Author: BretCahillBretCahill
Date: Sep 5, 2008 11:42
I once cycled to a job which was 2 miles away and 100 feet or so below
where I lived.
The reverse situation is perfect for cycle commuting: On cold winter
mornings you keep warm pedaling uphill and on hot summer afternoons
you keep cool coasting downhill.
Another situation combines use of a transit bus with cycling with the
wind. If you live downwind of your job take the bus upwind and then
cycle back with the wind. You aren't all sweaty and smelly when you
get to work and it also keeps your food bill / eating times down.
There must be others but I don't discover them until I'm there.
Bret Cahill
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