Cyclist dies after wheel gets trapped in unused streetcar track
08-13-12, 03:55 PM
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And I would prefer trolley buses or subways given the choice.
08-13-12, 04:25 PM
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08-14-12, 10:11 AM
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Narrow tires and pavement cracks/splits are part of a cyclist's life on the road. At a charity ride with 1,700 cyclists last Saturday, one guy crashed behind me 0.1 mile after the start, and my wife crashed 0.5 miles from the finish, both after riding into cracks.
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You probably don't want to know how I feel about jerks who discuss Darwin Awards and helmets in the same sentence, especially when discussing a recent death of a cyclist.
08-14-12, 10:49 AM
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You gonna eat that?
Meh. It wouldn't bother me.
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08-14-12, 12:46 PM
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We will never know if the helmet saved his life or not. There is nothing wrong with encouraging people to wear helmets but story telling usually weakens the argument and very often turns people against which ever side we are debating. Wearing a helmet does not prevent crashes. Some riders survive unscathed with no helmet and some riders with helmets get killed. Of course the opposite is just as likely.
I always wear a helmet when riding on the beach bike path, lots of people many of them clueless. And while at most 5% of my riding has been there 80% of the accidents I have actually seen the results of were there. And over half of the path related incidents IO know of are ones where a helmet could make a significant difference.
But if yuo get run over by a bus there is little a helmet will do for you. Yet I see amny who insist on a helmet fo rthe street who have no such concerns on paths.
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I'm going to be one of the politically incorrect persons here by saying the moron needed to watch where he was going!!! Everyone knows that they should be crossing tracks at an angle, no matter if the guy was new to the city, this is true with tracks anywhere in the world. And whether the track was an active track or not doesn't matter because if the track was active he still would have killed himself. The argument for a helmet is an unknown factor, could he have lived had he been wearing one? More then likely, but not sure if there's strong enough evidence to support or unsupport that claim yet. The rider needed to ride with some degree of intelligence at work, but I understand, a lot of car drivers don't drive using intelligence either.
08-14-12, 03:56 PM
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You gonna eat that?
I'm going to be one of the politically incorrect persons here by saying the moron needed to watch where he was going!!! Everyone knows that they should be crossing tracks at an angle, no matter if the guy was new to the city, this is true with tracks anywhere in the world. And whether the track was an active track or not doesn't matter because if the track was active he still would have killed himself. The argument for a helmet is an unknown factor, could he have lived had he been wearing one? More then likely, but not sure if there's strong enough evidence to support or unsupport that claim yet. The rider needed to ride with some degree of intelligence at work, but I understand, a lot of car drivers don't drive using intelligence either.
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I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
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I stop for people / whose right of way I honor / but not for no one.
Originally Posted by bragi "However, it's never a good idea to overgeneralize."
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