----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 08:44 Subject: Re: [biofuel] RE (off topic) Cars+loud music,motorbikes
> > Glad you're still with us Paul. I'm quite a good rider (I started > when I was 14), but I don't think it makes any difference anymore. I > was relieved to sell my last bike, sad but definitely relieved. It > was a 250 Kwacker twin, light, quick and supple, great for city > riding. That was in London a few years ago. It had been a while but I > quickly got into it again, soon found the despatch riders following > me rather than me them. But, every day I'd set off to work or back > again and think, Will I make it this time? Twice I was off, no > injuries or damage, but if I'd been any slower it would have been a > lot worse. Each time the car driver who did it to me just drove on, > fully aware of it, didn't give a damn. First pull out, then look, > first change lanes, then look, sheesh. It happened all the time, not > just the twice. Something weird happens to some people's > personalities when they get in a car. Bikes are great, I love them, > but not in cities, not these days, the dice are loaded against you. > Lousy way to die, or get vegetabilised. > I don't yet ride a motorcycle, but, riding a bicycle, I know what you mean. I now avoid the main roads, and take the secondary roads that parallel the main roads ( a block or two over ) traffic is no ware as bad and many times I get there just as fast or faster, because I 'm not fighting traffic on the main road. Greg H. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, front doors, drawers, briefcases, padlocks, and more. On sale now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
