Thread: 32 Roadster vs Bicycle

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Ouch is right!!

The mayor of Portland, Sam Adams (also in trouble for doing bad things with teenage boy - but that's another story) wants to make Portland a "car free" city. We have poured millions into bike lanes and experience some real snarls downtown also due to Critical Mass.

I live out in the country and there's nothin' worse than coming around a corner doing the legal limit and having a pack of bicyclist spread across your lane - especially when there's oncoming traffic!

I'm all in favor of "sharing the road" but jeeze louise, there are some bicyclists that truly believe all cars are evil and we are the ones that should bow to their whims and stop driving anything motorized. I passed a group on my Harley and gave it a "wee bit o' gas" (okay - so it was pretty hard in second) and looked into my mirror to see a domino effect with about thirty bikes go down. I thought, "should I go back and render aid?" Until I saw them all flippin' me the bird and figgered they were not too pleased with the "V-Twin" relative. As luck would have it, there was a County Sheriff down the road about two miles and I stopped and told him what had happened - He said not to worry, that he'd look into it and thanked me for being a concerned citizen. I was really glad that the sheriff was on an Electra-glide.

Y'all ride safe out there, ya hear..
Glenn