Re: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread Robert Zeidler
> Larry Powers > > Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. - Mark Twain > > > Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:58:16 -0700 > From: stephendem...@gmail.com > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > Subject: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT... >

RE: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread Larry Powers
om To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT... As a commuter, I'd like to think I'm pretty good about being safe, riding defensively, especially when it comes to using MUPs (multi-use paths), which brings me to an incident my wife and I had ye

Re: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread John Blish
Steve, Sorry to hear of one of these incident that turned into more than just a close call (of which there are also too many) and I hope you and your wife recover fully and soon. In my observation it is often the innocent, careful party who ends up with the injury. It seems too that distraction

Re: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread SteveD
They are mo politel > > From: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com [rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com] > on behalf of Ryan Ray [ryanr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:50 AM > To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com > Subject:

Re: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread SteveD
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 7:14:59 AM UTC-7, kennet...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM, SteveD wrote: > > > > Everyone's enjoying their day on the tree-lined trail with a nice little > > breeze. You notice that there's a threesome of pedestrians abreast of > each > > oth

Re: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread Kenneth Stagg
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM, SteveD wrote: > > Everyone's enjoying their day on the tree-lined trail with a nice little > breeze. You notice that there's a threesome of pedestrians abreast of each > other, chatting, about 50 feet or so ahead of you. There are other cyclists > "on your lefting"

RE: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-07 Thread Marc Schwartz
.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:50 AM To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Subject: [RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT... Sorry to hear about your BGT incident! I like how nice you are about it but I yell at three abreast every time. If your crowd of peds take over half the trail you ar

[RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-06 Thread Ryan Ray
Sorry to hear about your BGT incident! I like how nice you are about it but I yell at three abreast every time. If your crowd of peds take over half the trail you are going to hear it from me. Unrelated sort of: The one time I was hit was when I stopped to investigate a fender rub and a MTBer w

[RBW] Biking incident on Seattle BGT...

2012-08-06 Thread SteveD
As a commuter, I'd like to think I'm pretty good about being safe, riding defensively, especially when it comes to using MUPs (multi-use paths), which brings me to an incident my wife and I had yesterday on the Burke-Gilman Trail just north of 70th Ave NE (or is it NE 70th?) in Seattle. The las