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- From: ozcomert@wam.umd.edu (John Ozcomert)
- Subject: Re: Need to read : Are you an idiot?
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:31:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.105216.4788@admin1.memst.edu> jasmith@admin1.memst.edu (John) writes:
- > The facts are that a car's weigh over a ton and a bike weigh
- > less than 25 pounds. So, my question is who are these idiots that
- > get out on busy streets and ride in the street? I see these people
- > out around rush hour on the most travel roads in Memphis. The traffic
- > is almost bumper to bumper, and you have some idiot on his bike in the
- > right hand lane slowing traffic up. All I want to know is who are you
- > people? What is going on in your head? Your asking for trouble doing
- > stupid stuff like that. I see these people and some times I'd like to
- > open my passenger door and knock them down or just run them off the
- > road. And you know what's really bad. I'm a fellow bicyclist.
- > I ride anywhere from 100 to 200 miles a week depending on how many days
- > I have to ride. Usually 50 miles on saturday and sunday and 20 miles
- > on week days. I don't know their may be some of you people that ride
- > a lot more than I do, but I also swim for an hour twice a week and
- > run three times about 10 miles. I consider myself a execise nut. But
- > all I'm asking is why do you people have to ride in the worse time of
- > day in the worse areas. I suggest taking back streets, finding less
- > populated areas to ride, because their is no sense in giving the rest
- > of us a bad name just because you want to bike down the middle of the
- > interstate, or whatever. I know what some of you are going to tell me.
- > We can't ride on other streets because their not as clean and we get
- > flats more often. My answer is give up you road bike and get a mountain
- > bike. If the streets are fit for your road bike then you need to switch
- > to a mountain bike. I've got a nice TREK racing bike and I really love
- > the bike, but I can't ride it anywhere, and I get flat more often than
- > on my Mountain bike. What I do is majority of the time I ride my
- > mountain bike, and occasionally I take a cleaner route just to get
- > some riding time on my TREK. My set up is Mountain bike for training
- > and the road bike for racing. Mainly what I'm saying to the people
- > that insist on riding on main streets during rush hour. It's not safe,
- > because there is more chance for an accident and there is a bigger
- > chance somebody is going to run you off the road.
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- John, I'd sign up for an English class or two while I was in college, old pal.
- It would make your ignorant ramblings a little easier to read.
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- -John Ozcomert
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