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- From: AS.TLK@forsythe.stanford.edu (Timmer)
- Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.misc
- Subject: Re: Need to read : Are you an idiot?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 08:54:47 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- 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.
-
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- No--you ride a bike. But you ain't my fellow anything.
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- > 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.
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- A what? An exorcised nut?
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