On Mon, 16 May 2005 09:03:33 -0700, John David Galt wrote:

> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>> Classic car supremacist thinking. Never mind the known dangers of
>> sidewalk riding, forget the slower and more dangerous journeys for
>> cyclists. As long as the Almighty Car is never inconvenienced, that is
>> all that matters.
>
> That's the classic asshole-biker argument, the bike equivalent of "playing
> the race card". Bikers need to be taught -- hopefully not the hard way --
> that the universal moral principle that slower traffic must give way to
> faster, includes them.

The claim that your position is a 'universal moral principal' is *very*
highly debatable. It's not universal, hard to see where 'moral' comes
into it, and it's certainly not a principle.

What is not debatable is that it is *not* a _legal_ principal that slower
traffic must yeild to faster traffic.

Mark