"just think of it as evolution in action"

Doubtless the blame for all accidents will be placed on the shoulders of the hated motorists rather than the arrogant lycra clad tossers going the wrong way.

To be honest I thought that this was passed ages ago, when I walk to work in the Sq mile bikes are all over the one was roads, path's & pedestrianised area's.

Ian

Hell, if we could just get bloody cyclists to obey simple traffic signs like "STOP" and red lights, it would be a significant gain.

As for the "wrong-way" initiative, I'm all for it -- as long as you have a decent front bumper, similar to the V-shaped "cowcatchers" mounted on 19th-century locomotives.

Kim: You just need a two by four suspended out in front of the vehicle at neck-breaker height. The remains will go down and under the wheels.

It is rather cheap to replace the two by four if it gets broken in heavy traffic.

KB, the problem is that said 2x4 has a distressing habit of causing blood-splatter to hit the windscreen -- and let me tell you, unless you act quickly with the washers/wipers, it's hell to get off (don't ask me how I know this).

With a V-shaped cowcatcher, the refuse/bloody stuff is shunted off to the side -- perhaps, it should be said, onto the windscreens of other cars -- where it becomes someone else's problem.

Yeah, I'm selfish. I'm a Republican.

Perhaps a better wiper mechanism is needed ... one that automatically triggers when the bar is struck.

It can also get the cigar lighter in the ashtray started up ... a good smoke is generally needed after roaring through a critical mass demo.

Oh, and BTW, spewing your kills all over other people's vehicles is definitely an initiation of force ... a good min-archist libertarian would never do such a thing.

They should bill you for the clean-up.

AMP research makes some nifty side-steps for trucks that deploy electrically and can give a lycra-wedgie that won't quit. You don't want them going up and over in the air (unless you have skeet-shooters ready on a sofa in the truck bed), rolling under ensures the tires have a change to bat them around like a hockey puck.

This is worth repeating:

http://www.bikereader.com/contributors/misc/menace.html

Bicyclists are a menace, especially the militant ones here in San Francisco. They speed up to challenge city busses. You drive behind them for miles waiting for a chance to safely pass. And when you finally do, they ride past you again at the next stop sign or red light. Traffic laws don't seem to apply to them.

My car needs one of those retractable blades on the wheel hub like James Bond. If the bicyclists are lucky, I'll hit their tire instead of their leg.

More people are killed in cycling-related accidents each year than by accidental (or negligent) gunfire. (I'm even ignoring the cyclists who die from heart failure or stroke as a result of cycling -- add those, and the numbers become quite sickening.)

So I think if we shooters are to be coralled into shooting ranges because of the risk of accident, then cyclists should be confined to indulging their foul practice on specially-made tracks, closed to traffic and the general public.

Or we could just declare open season on cyclists (we gunnies need to exercise our guns in summer, after all) -- hell, let's make it an Olympic sport.

In the spirit of fairness, I don't even care if cyclists demand the right to shoot back. Ever tried to make a decent shot off a moving bicycle saddle? I did, as a kid (now that the statute of limitations has passed) and let me tell you, it's damned difficult. Couldn't even hit Mrs. Hudson the neighbor's arse with my trusty RWS, and let me tell you, that was a massive target.

Kim, you just gave my husband a new set of abs. He is still laughing.