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Unit 5302 · 04-26-2002, 06:12 PM

What road was this on? Highway? Side street? Speed limit there? Was there a bike path next to the road? What time of day was it? If it was night did the bike rider have headlights and a taillight? Did he have proper reflectors?

Or is the dead guy just one of a 100 morons I see a year biking down a road that has a 50mph speed limit, at night without proper lighting, with a bike path right next to it that he has decided to ignore? If that's the case, it could have easily been any of us doing 50mph down a dark street when a bike appears just about out of nowhere because the idiot isn't riding on the bike path that was built for his/her stupid ***.

It may just be me, but there are well over 20mi of specialized, paved bike trails within 10mi of my house and there are seemingly more and more idiots out there who have decided to ignore the bike trail right next to them and ride on a road with a gravel shoulder, at dusk or later, and you usually have to slow way down because you can't pass them with oncoming traffic in the other lane. Those bikers are just asking to get killed, and I don't really appreciate them being so damn stupid.

04-26-2002, 06:12 PM	#11
Unit 5302 Registered Member Join Date: May 1999 Posts: 5,246	Devils Advocate? What road was this on? Highway? Side street? Speed limit there? Was there a bike path next to the road? What time of day was it? If it was night did the bike rider have headlights and a taillight? Did he have proper reflectors? Or is the dead guy just one of a 100 morons I see a year biking down a road that has a 50mph speed limit, at night without proper lighting, with a bike path right next to it that he has decided to ignore? If that's the case, it could have easily been any of us doing 50mph down a dark street when a bike appears just about out of nowhere because the idiot isn't riding on the bike path that was built for his/her stupid ***. It may just be me, but there are well over 20mi of specialized, paved bike trails within 10mi of my house and there are seemingly more and more idiots out there who have decided to ignore the bike trail right next to them and ride on a road with a gravel shoulder, at dusk or later, and you usually have to slow way down because you can't pass them with oncoming traffic in the other lane. Those bikers are just asking to get killed, and I don't really appreciate them being so damn stupid.