Mike Latondresse > wrote in
:

> Jim Yanik .> wrote in
> :
>
>> Because they use illegal tactics that are prohibited for autos or
>> other motor vehicles.Like squeezing between car and curb.They
>> often do not stop for stop signs or stop lights.They also often
>> ride on the wrong side of the road. They often fail to use any
>> turn or stop signals.
>>
> Yeah mean they are cheating! How aweful in fact shameful. In
> Vancouver in Bike-to-work-week we have a race between a fit cyclist
> and a car to a downtown point (don't know if the driver is fit, in
> fact highly unlikely however it doesn't bias the result). The cyclist
> has always won.
>
>

There was such a race here in Orlando by a couple of Sentinel
newsstaffers,and the bicyclist won,but admitted to cheating.

Of course,the courses are short,and probably chosen by the bicyclist.

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Jim Yanik
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