Go Ahead, Try to Justify This Pedalcyclist Behavior

Scott en Aztl=E1n wrote:
> The scene: a six-lane, 65 MPH SoCal street. There are WIDE bike lanes
> on both sides - wide enough for a car to drive in. In the bike lane
> are two pedalcyclists riding, not single-file, but SIDE-BY-SIDE, one
> fully within the lane, and the other on the left side of the white
> stripe in the rightmost traffic lane.
>
> No, there was no debris in the bike lane (otherwise the other
> pedalcyclist wouldn't be in it).
>
> No, this was not a pedalcyclist "taking the lane for safety."
>
> So what possible reason could these Darwin Award nominees have had
for
> endangering themselves as well as everyone else by riding two-abreast
> on a 65 MPH road?

Is that all you've got to worry about?

"Scott en Aztlán" wrote:
>
> The scene: a six-lane, 65 MPH SoCal street.

There are 65 MPH non-freeway streets in SoCal? Damn! Where?

> There are WIDE bike lanes
> on both sides - wide enough for a car to drive in. In the bike lane
> are two pedalcyclists riding, not single-file, but SIDE-BY-SIDE, one
> fully within the lane, and the other on the left side of the white
> stripe in the rightmost traffic lane.
>
> No, there was no debris in the bike lane (otherwise the other
> pedalcyclist wouldn't be in it).

You can't guarantee that there won't be broken glass up ahead, and you
probably can't see all the crap in the bike lane (including goatheads), but
I'm pretty sure there is no practical reason for what you observed.

> No, this was not a pedalcyclist "taking the lane for safety."
>
> So what possible reason could these Darwin Award nominees have had for
> endangering themselves as well as everyone else by riding two-abreast
> on a 65 MPH road?

The same reason that young hoodlums cross streets in front of waiting cars at
speeds measured in inches per second.

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Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> The scene: a six-lane, 65 MPH SoCal street. There are WIDE bike lanes
> on both sides - wide enough for a car to drive in. In the bike lane
> are two pedalcyclists riding, not single-file, but SIDE-BY-SIDE, one
> fully within the lane, and the other on the left side of the white
> stripe in the rightmost traffic lane.
>
> No, there was no debris in the bike lane (otherwise the other
> pedalcyclist wouldn't be in it).
>
> No, this was not a pedalcyclist "taking the lane for safety."
>
> So what possible reason could these Darwin Award nominees have had for
> endangering themselves as well as everyone else by riding two-abreast
> on a 65 MPH road?

Hatred of drivers. Too bad this isn't included in the current PC
definition of "hate crime".

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:25:50 -0700, Scott en Aztl=E1n said the following in=
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rec.autos.driving...=20


> So what possible reason could these Darwin Award nominees have had for
> endangering themselves as well as everyone else by riding two-abreast
> on a 65 MPH road?

Four letters: MFFY.

In article >, Scott en
Aztlán > wrote:

> The scene: a six-lane, 65 MPH SoCal street.

i was born and grew up in LA. Can you tell me what street in LA has a
65 MPH limit?

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