ShadowsPapa
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- Bill
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- Runnells, Iowa
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- '22 JTO, '23 JLU, '82 SX4, '73 P. Cardin Javelin
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- Retired auto mechanic, frmr gov't ntwrk security admin
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I can tell you one reason there are more pedestrians and cyclist accidents here - at least in part - they are making more stupid pedestrians and bicyclists. Seriously, going up hills on winding, curving, hilly rural roads bike riders riding three abreast after being told the LAW is single file, no double, no triple, no 4 across. And yet that's what you see. After 5 miles of s
In town the joggers are total idiots - jogging against lights, fighting their way through the normal foot traffic as if they have more rights and everyone else should get out of their way.
Don't lay it ALL on the drivers - it's often as much on the foot traffic paying more attention to their phones or jogging than to their own safety.
We say "drive defensively" and everyone should - yes, absolutely - drive as if the rest of the world is not just crazy, but sociopath as well, but people need to ride bikes within laws and rules, and walk defensively, too - as if all drivers are in some crazed video game and each person they hit is worth 5,000 points.
Just try driving through my area in the middle of summer during full bike season - it will test the most patient person.
What we seem to have is a culmination of factors - adding up of "my rights trump all other rights, I have the right to be stupid, I have the right to use my phone and walk aimlessly through town and ignore lights and turning traffic and turning buses, I have the right to put on makeup while driving, I have the right to look at my newspaper or respond to a text...... you get the idea.
Add in market factors - to make a profit and keep the stock holders happy like me - so I can keep my 401K moving along - you have to turn a profit. To do that you have to sell product, To do that you have to be more attractive than the other guy - and have with consumers want. So you study - and you study, and you hire experts, and the studies show that people want simple, they don't want to have to think or work for anything. Queen nailed it, although it was aimed at a different topic - I want it all and I want it now. Look at us, this thing PARKS ALL BY ITSELF! HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!!!!! WOW!! And it sells like crazy. Now even a moron can go to town and park - uh, have their car park for them.
Ya ain't gonna fix it, The world has spoken and unfortunately, smarts and hard work don't matter any more.
Used to be those who drove knew how the thing worked. You had to be mechanically inclined, work a spark advance, choke, and more.
(on hindsight - maybe I should have left the manual chokes and ratchet shifter in my 73 - total theft deterrent. Good luck starting it and if you got help getting that far - HAHAHAHA - good luck figuring out the ratchet shift mechanism! (a reverse valve body would have been fun, too)
In town the joggers are total idiots - jogging against lights, fighting their way through the normal foot traffic as if they have more rights and everyone else should get out of their way.
Don't lay it ALL on the drivers - it's often as much on the foot traffic paying more attention to their phones or jogging than to their own safety.
We say "drive defensively" and everyone should - yes, absolutely - drive as if the rest of the world is not just crazy, but sociopath as well, but people need to ride bikes within laws and rules, and walk defensively, too - as if all drivers are in some crazed video game and each person they hit is worth 5,000 points.
Just try driving through my area in the middle of summer during full bike season - it will test the most patient person.
What we seem to have is a culmination of factors - adding up of "my rights trump all other rights, I have the right to be stupid, I have the right to use my phone and walk aimlessly through town and ignore lights and turning traffic and turning buses, I have the right to put on makeup while driving, I have the right to look at my newspaper or respond to a text...... you get the idea.
Add in market factors - to make a profit and keep the stock holders happy like me - so I can keep my 401K moving along - you have to turn a profit. To do that you have to sell product, To do that you have to be more attractive than the other guy - and have with consumers want. So you study - and you study, and you hire experts, and the studies show that people want simple, they don't want to have to think or work for anything. Queen nailed it, although it was aimed at a different topic - I want it all and I want it now. Look at us, this thing PARKS ALL BY ITSELF! HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!!!!! WOW!! And it sells like crazy. Now even a moron can go to town and park - uh, have their car park for them.
Ya ain't gonna fix it, The world has spoken and unfortunately, smarts and hard work don't matter any more.
Used to be those who drove knew how the thing worked. You had to be mechanically inclined, work a spark advance, choke, and more.
(on hindsight - maybe I should have left the manual chokes and ratchet shifter in my 73 - total theft deterrent. Good luck starting it and if you got help getting that far - HAHAHAHA - good luck figuring out the ratchet shift mechanism! (a reverse valve body would have been fun, too)
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