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Old 05-12-23, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeyBike
Cycling on a busy highway with high speed vehicles overtaking by the hundreds is a risky stunt where doing nothing wrong can get you smashed. Doing "risky" stunts that depends 100% on the cyclists skill level without cars whizzing past a couple feet away ain't all that risky. You have a good point about endangering pedestrians. I don't see the cyclists as taking any personal risks given their skill level. If they eat **** it's their own fault.

I don't care if they break their own necks, frankly. I do, however, resent very much using pedestrians as meat pylons. According to you, that makes me a pearl clutcher.
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