Cyclists on Sidewalks

[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!

[donnambr]

I'm of the "never say never" camp, but I do have a strong opinion about the young, male LDS missionaries on their bikes: If the LDS church is going to send these young men out into the world with their bikes as their main form of transportation, they should darn well send them to a LAB Road I training beforehand. I think it's just criminal to make them go out there and use their bikes with few if any traffic skills. They should also be educated on the traffic laws as pertains to cyclists of the area where they will be having their mission.

Perhaps if any of you who are reading this are LDS, you can suggest this to the relevant folks in your church structure?