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Quotes
Opinion
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"The
problem
bicyclists have faced in Austin, it seems, rests more in broadening
minds rather than streets."
-- James Hitselberger, 7-98
"It
seems that the best way to avoid getting a ticket when running a red
light in your car is to kill a cyclist while you're doing
it."
-- Patrick
Goetz,
10-98
"It
breaks my heart to see police and safety wonks saying NOTHING to kid
cyclists except 'Put your helmet on', as if a plastic hat was some
kind of Star Trek technology that would surround our soft little
bodies with a force field capable of repelling two tons at 30 mph
(let alone 40-70mph)."
-- De
Clarke,
2-01
"Since
I've
become more observant of how bikes and cars interact, I've decided
that bicyclists have two major safety threats: cars and
themselves."
-- Lee Nichols,
1-00
"Not all drivers are
maniacal, over-consuming bourgeois bent on the destruction of us, our
planet and our way of life. Just some of them."
-- Dave, ef88@swbell.net,
3-00
(On
riding
on busy streets.) "Sure cyclists have a right to the road. But that's
a small consolation when you're dead."
-- Michael Bluejay, 1-00
"Bikes
shouldn't
have to come to a complete stop at Stop signs because bikes are
fundamentally different from cars. Requiring bikes to behave like
cars is like requiring a leprechaun to behave like an
gynecologist." -- Michael
Bluejay, 2-95
"What's
the
worst thing Critical Mass can do? It can cause a mild inconvenience
to someone, once a month at most. If a driver is thereby provoked to
declare open season on individual cyclists that aren't in the way,
then I submit that there is something wrong with the driver, not the
protesters. Probably what is wrong is that the driver is what my wife
calls 'bad dumb' -- incurably stupid."
-- Bill Canfield, 1-00
"The
reason people hate cyclists is because they are inconvenienced by
them. Ever notice how worked up folks get when they can't find their
TV remote control? Threatening convenience is worse than the most
inflamatory blasphemy. " --
Lane Wimberly, 2-01
"In
this
city, it's easier to go to jail for biking on the sidewalk than for
killing a cyclist with your car."
-- Michael Bluejay, 8-99
One time when I was in a Critical Mass ride, some guy called me a
"faggot motherfucker." Since he was stopped in traffic by the ride, I
took the time to point out to him that if I were gay and had a
proclivity toward sex with a parent, wouldn't it be my FATHER, rather
than my mother? He responded with another epithet rather than a
reasoned analysis of my comment.
-- Stuart Gourd, 8-01
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