Re: Dead Vermont cyclist

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025 05:07:12 -0400, Catrike Ryder
<Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:47:32 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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On 3/14/2025 4:37 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:10:40 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 3/14/2025 1:25 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:44:15 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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Nope, I'm not sympathetic. What rule could be more fundamental than
"Don't hit someone walking (or bicycling) with your car"?
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And if killing someone with your car isn't sufficient for forbidding
future driving, what would be?
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Is the permission to drive really more important than a person's life?

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Isn't there a law against riding your bicycle in the path of a moving
car?

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What nonsense!

 
Oh well, go ahead and do it....

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I do it all the time. I did it many times on today's ride, as usual. I'm
not nearly as fearful or as ignorant of the law as you are.
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Man up, if you can.

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I'm pretty sure that if I ride into the path of fast moving vehicles
and get hit, it'd be my own fault.

The problem with Frank's theory is if it doesn't work right you are
dead.

Years ago I posted about two women on a motorbike with two babies who
rode out in front of a 40 ft bed truck hauling a 40 ft. trailer. The
guy did try to stop, in fact he flipped the trailer but the results
were one women and one baby dead.

When I mentioned it to Frank he just shrugged it off saying "Oh, they
didn't do it right."

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Cheers,

John B.