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Hey Jim......for the most part, I agree with you. The only place where we part company is the fact that you STILL, for some idiotic reason....think I condone and agree with the practice of blowing through lights and stop signs with no sense of safety or courtesy. I do not now, nor EVER say that I condone cyclists emplying such behavior. The only time I said I did, was as a completely sarcastic response to this thread going south. So, for some crazy reason, Im going to try and restate my postion here again. I hope maybe THIS TIME, youll read and understand. Here goes...... Approaching the red light: Regarding lights and stop signs, it goes like this....You come to a light. You stop or slow to a standing roll. If there is traffic at the light, you 100% stop, unclip and even move to the side of the road so that traffic that might be making a right turn can do so. This is how its done. ALL THE TIME. NOW....if there is no traffic at light, such as early in the AM...or if there was traffic and and ALL of it passes and there is CLEARLY no more in sight approaching the intersection....and it is 100% safe to proceed, then we typically will make the judgement that its safe to move forward and proceed before the light turns green for car traffic. If there is ANY indication that traffic will approach or that proceed through a light could cause ANY problem for either us or car traffic, we will wait out the light until it is green. But what if the light turns red right as we approach it? If thats the case, then we will make our presense known to whatever traffic is in the intersection, most likely by making eye contact with the driver, and make the call to proceed on through or stop, depending on whether or not the traffic is going to allow us to proceed or not. 90% of the time the car traffic will wave us on by....just like a driver might pause at a green light to allow a pedestrian to finish crossing the street, or maybe allow someone to pull out of a driveway. We NEVER just plow right on through a red light like we own the road. EVER. PERIOD. Clear? So your other talk about mindlesly blowing lights rergardless of the traffic conditions, riding the wrong way down streets and on sidewalks? There is no place for that. Ever. Period. I dont know how I could be clearer on that. If these idiotic types are the ONLY cyclists you EVER come across, Im sorry. They piss me off as much as they do you. My original point....waaaaaay back in this thread, was to try and point out that we arent all like this and although our opinions on what traffic rules cyclists are beholden to differ a bit, most, myself included operate with both safety and courtesy to others as a primary concern. We LIVE by the creed of "Share the Road" and are WELL aware that its a two-way street, no pun intended. Look, man...Im well aware that one wrong move and Im dead. All that talk about outrunning cars was just bravado. Ive gone down and have had more than one friend go down and wind up close to dead due to being being drilled by a car. Want to know what crashing on a bike is like? Seriously? Get in your casr, strip down to your underwear, get up to about 35 MPH, open your car door...and jump out. Thats what its like. And it !@#$ing suuuuuuuucks. You reallllly think I want to risk my safety and that of others? Seriously? You think Im so "smug" that Id operate in a dangerous way and risk eating my meals through a straw or worse, leaving my kid fatherless? Come on now. Be serious. And the fact that lots of people in this thread are having a ball stating they would ENJOY taking a cyclist down.....Im sorry, thats !@#$ing scary. Even if you come across some moronic hipster acting like an ass, the answer is drilling him with your car? What the !@#$ is wrong with you people? Finally, regarding whats going on in Brooklyn, I think the whole thing is sad. Sad that the Hipsters and Hasidm are acting so self-important and sad that the City is being so hamfisted about a solution. Here is some good persepctive from a great blogger. And yes, his name is......SNOB: http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/ I hope this clears it up once and for all.

You think a cyclist coming to a traffic light, looking both ways, then rolling through it at five in the morning with no vehicular traffic within a fifteen mile radius is an example of "smugness," so who are YOU to comment?

Those smug Jews.......

I cant wait for the first time Tony Stewart decides to trade paint with her. If she thinks she can jump out of the car and act like she has during previous clashes in Indy racing, shes got another thing coming.

Fix the program first, then the players will come.

Id argue that the "mouth breathers" are the people who see ONE WIN and are considering hiring that guy over the one who took a team to the playoffs 10 out of 14 years he coached it and has TWO Rings on his resume. But Id be open to the second approach, too (Fewell/New Front office). Either way, be it at coach or in the Front Office, this team must SOMEWHERE bring in PROVEN NFL-level ability. This team cannot right now afford to bring in unknowns. So if its Fewel for HC, then you MUST bring in PROVEN talent for the Front Office.

He said the same thing YOU did, you !@#$ing moron.

"Ya know...this desert sure seems better now that the water truck pulled up."

Even if Fewell wins out, how are a few wins going to POSSIBLY match up again men who are going to showcase resumes with fifteen year long track records of success and Super Bowl Rings??!!??

Cant waiyt for the follow up to this thread... "such and such coach works the players too hard!!!! They are all fatigued!!!"

Jauron never had the Bills practice outdoors?

Think....youre looking for a job and you know in three months FIVE different companies will be bidding HIGH for your services. Assuming youre financially set....even if offered a lucrative salary, would you take a job today? I sure as hell wouldnt.

Yeah, having an indoor facility really hurt the Giants....AND the Steelers.....AND the Patriots...... Andf that Brett Favre...whos from the hottest part of the Country and HATES the cold...hes a "soft player, too.

Becuase there are no "links" that means it doesnt happen???!!?? Good lord, get off the Internets. Theres a whole world outside your basement window.

"So, other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”

This hasnt happenned in Buffalo and every other city in the NFL? Cut the self-righteous BS...you sound like Belichick HIMSELF pulled the alarm.

No, becuase his replacement was a fine GM in his own right.

And people whining how the Bills got "jobbed"...which they didnt...but whatever. Of course, Reed's foot was NOT out of bounds in the Houston comeback game, though.

Even if Mr. Wilson offered them a wheelbarrow of money and control of the whole thing....which of these guys in their right minds, KNOWING there will be HUGE competition for their services in the offseason, would sign with a team NOW? Youre getting mad at Ralph for not doing something thats virtually impossible to do. Coaches dont get hired mid season. Ever.

That, people is what you call a "Hail Mary". That is, a completely outlandish idea, with no basis in reality that if in the one if a zillion chance it works out, makes the writer look like a genius. And of course, if it doesnt, everybody forgets about. Good drugs whereever this guy is. He's obviously the "junior" Senator. Good Lord...this organization is in shambles and you want to take a chance on a college coach....after a DECADE of taking chances on non-proven coaches? Mindless. Absolutely mindless.

No...douchebags. Thats why Jim fits in.

You guys really are a bunch of douchebags.

Says the doosh who labels someone "smug" becuase he doesnt follow the rules as HE sees how they should be enforced and wants to run somebody over with his car becuase of it. God, youre pathetic.

http://www.velonews.com/article/99813/road...t-victims-speak

You just described all of TBD.