MOPED ARMY

Man! Glad you're okay,Mike! I know what you mean. Nearly been gunned down a few times. My boy drives a Pizza delivery car and he warned me it's getting worse and said to `watch out' on the `ped. SURE GLAD you're okay! (:^)

Now listen,I'm fain to mention this............I better not.......but there's a way I saw on a scooter forum to make `em back off a little................and I'm gonna try it.........but NOT in the city. And remember,Infected,there's good red-necks and lousy no-good fer nuthin' red-necks. I'm in between there somewhere. (:^)

Lubbock ? Is that Buddy Hollys home town ? bruce

Your not gonna tell us are ya don?

THAT is SCARY,Jim! Where are our police when she's driving around? That's what gets me................they let the big trucks and Semi Tractor-trailer rigs speed and hardly ever pull them over here in Ohio(most major roads are posted 65mph, trucks(vehicles) over 4 tons empty...55mph). So WHY does our State Patrol let the truckers run 70mph on these roads? IF the truckers were forced to run a LITTLE slower than cars, they would be in the RIGHT LANE where they belong......NOT weaving in and out of traffic to maintain their illegal speed. They are EXTREMELY dangerous to cars on the road. And concerning that woman, we shouldn't see drivers like her on the road at all. I mean NO OFFENSE to you truckers out there. I would only like to see you stay in the right lane as much as possible and stay within reason of the ACTUAL posted limits so we car and pick-up drivers have a safer world. You truckers that speed can be AWFUL GLAD I'm not a State Patrolman, Because I'd have 2 Semis pulled over for every car I pulled over. I know they have deadlines, but that is the Company's problem, not the average motorists. ANYONE feel strongly pro or con about this? (:^)

Although I will say it's often not all the truckers fault.

Blame the company as well for handing them a timetable that flatly cannot be completed on time at 55mph, and demanding that they keep to it.

But there's enough wild-hair guys out there too, and when I catch em, I will report em....I've seen conduct outta some of these guys that'd curl yer hair, and from my roomies cage, no less.

Imagine tryin to "thread the needle" in a 1/4 "weave lane" between two truckers and an SUV, and none of them are givin an inch....at 65-70mph and into a 30mph Exit ramp curve at that speed in a 4-wheel slide.

Man was I pissed.

(I was drivin, and the roomie was busy screamin.)

-R

I live in Minneapolis, land of sprawl, where even the back streets are 4 lanes and people think they're the freeway.

I've been almost hit more times than I can count and hit several times (all on bicycles, none on the 'ped yet, knock wood) and I have a severely bad attitude about 4 wheel vehicles.

I have jumped off my bike, punched windshields, menaced SUV bastards with my U-lock, ranted, raved and generally raised hell in a manner unbecoming a lady (which I am mostly not).

None of it helps. What mostly helps is superhuman vigilance, paranoia, and assuming that "they" will gun it to hit you, never see you, come out of alleys at 20 mph and stop 10 feet into the street (in the area where you legally have to ride anything less than a motorcycle here in car-land-hell) and pretty much anything else to get ya.