Re: bike path news

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:23:28 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:50:15 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
wrote:
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:56:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/10/2025 8:11 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 3/10/2025 6:21 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:

On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:

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People form their own opinions and arrange their own behavior based
on their own situation.

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Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are horribly
afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees, graveyards and more.
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Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying lethal
weaponry.
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My daughter for example used to take the train to work in inclement
or bitter cold Chicago winters.
No longer. ...

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You're the anecdote master, Andrew. But IIRC you've not yet found a
horrifying anecdote about quiet bike paths in suburban Florida, near
our timid tricycle rider.
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The murder of this thread was of an unarmed man on a bike path.

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Which does not mean it's even remotely likely on the bike path where Mr.
Tricycle Rider rides. It was a one in a million event, thousands of
miles away.
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His fear is as unrealistic as fear of dying from a spider bite. It's
almost as unrealistic as fear of walking past a graveyard. It's a
phobia, and his quasi-macho defense strategy is even less admirable than
clutching a teddy bear.

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And you know that how? Known the guy for years, your wife and his wife
are friends?
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Or your sole knowledge comes from a post on the Internet?
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My guess is the latter which make you a fool.

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Krygowski is an angry little man who can't take being called a wussy
because he knows he is one. What kind of a "man" pursues such a
totally risk free lifestyle as he has done.

Oh but he's told us about going to work about news and working 'till
nine at night. Just think, he rides his bicycle all the way home in
the dark. Can you even begin to imagine the bravery needed to do that?
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Cheers,

John B.