Cyclists on Sidewalks

[Chimiska]

"Right of way" is never something you have: it is something you GIVE. Give it as often as necessary to stay alive!

I thought sidewalk riding was always illegal: I am glad to learn it is not. I will have to check local laws and see what they say here. On my favorite ride, there is a short block of sidewalk that is really safer than making a left turn onto a busy street, and then immediately another left turn on to the side street.

[pooks]

Well, I just checked it out and in that area it was illegal for them to ride on the sidewalk.

Which doesn't mean I'd do the same thing again. I found it disturbing how easily I knee-jerked a decision that would have been different if they'd been in the street.

It's really kind of odd because I've seen them ride in that same street many times (assuming it's the same missionaries) and there wasn't a lot of traffic that day. The sidewalks have all been "ramped" so that wheelchairs can go up and down them easily, so there's no need to bunny-hop them, so I can see the temptation on a busy day. But this day? Not busy.

Which raises another question -- there are a couple of people in wheelchairs that I've seen in the STREET even after dark, when the sidewalks are all accessable!

Crazy world.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Which raises another question -- there are a couple of people in wheelchairs that I've seen in the STREET even after dark, when the sidewalks are all accessable!

"Real" wheelchairists ride on the sidewalk.

[pooks]

Lisa. Your room. No chocolate. No telephone.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Lisa. Your room. No chocolate. No telephone.

(slinking off, lower lip trembling....)

[KnottedYet]

I saw this bumpersticker on the back of a wheelchair (not kidding!)

"Don't like my driving? Get off the sidewalk!"

Some of the motorized wheelchairs are so top-heavy and have such small wheels that i don't think they can be at all comfortable on those wheelchair ramps at the sidewalk crossings.

My cousin had a motorized chair for bad days, but he didn't like it much. He attached a snowplow to the front of it and burned out the motor plowing his driveway... He can seriously kick b*tt in his handcycle. He'll ride 50 miles without blinking. And he pops his manual wheelchair up and over rocks and logs and curbs... he's a nut. (he's a 20-something, what can ya say?)

BTW, the bumpersticker wasn't on his chair, it was on someone else's.

[pooks]

Your cousin rocks!