keep practicing your English, Kirk.  you’ll get better one day.   until then, stick to posting on the internet, where nobody cares.

That is undeniable and deflates your assumptions of what viewers see. They generalize themselves, it is not the viewer. Many here even say “they are not representative, not all of those are criminals and proud of it” 

As for the rest, who only accept what the ones in the video claim, why should they do otherwise?

yes i created my account by pushing one button “Google” when my friens said “read this” You think that worrying about that is called being unable to do otherwise? You are right, you have to go there, you can’t contradict me, so you worry about my provenance. You are a fail at discussion.

I live in the nation’s capitol and ride everywhere, pizza boys like you are a threat, you have no strength do live the way you want but are happy to make assumptions about others, weakness, and then you get behind the wheel.

The video is full of fail, just because you admire yourself in the same mirror does not change the image of who is next to you, you think this real-life Cannonball run is meaning to you, it is the same as going on your knees in front of Burt Reynolds.

Don’t like it? Next time stick to topic, don’t worry about who it is speaking. I will take no time to edit this, if you can’t understand it I only laugh more. I am on holiday in cotage country, thank you for making it fun AND funny.

Now go get me a pizza.

I’m trying to go to work, the store, and back home.  I get threats on my life regularly.  cars perceive things I do to either just ride, or to stay alive–even fully legal ones–as “being a jerk.”  My point is that until you’ve been in that situation, you’re not qualified to differentiate.  But y’all see this video and you act so ˆthreatenedˆ, and it’s totally backwards.  Y’all threaten ME, not the reverse.  The rage in this thread is ridiculous, but luckily you were here to point out my logical fallacies.

but a good observation nonetheless, although I would use shoulder width for at least one dimension.

and if my car were 500x my area it would be as big as my house.

Human footprint (both feet together): ~0.5 sq feet

Car footprint (typical): ~95 sq feet.

So your car is about 190x your area. He’s not that far off.

You must have a very small house.

Sure, a biker could get in a car instead, and become the cause of the problem — thousands of fatalities per year, increased CO2 in the atmosphere, rising diabetes — and then they would be relaxed and not have any adrenaline, because all the damage they are doing to the world has been externalized, and, hey, the radio’s on.

If you’re moving (in any vehicle) faster than 3 MPH, then you’re “overdriving your braking distance” in that situation.

But that asshat driver that cut you off?  Him, you remember.  Same thing with the idiot cyclists.  People notice and remember those.

Rationalizations?  I’ve got to commute anyway, and the bike is just as fast as the car.  Exercise.  Biking combines the commute time with the exercise.  Green.  Sometimes the car doesn’t move for a week at a time.  

And stubbornness.  I don’t want to let the bastards drive me off the road.

Intellectually it’s not worth the risk.  I want to die on a big mountain, not on an city street.  It turns me into an asshole 40 minutes/day.  Yet I’ll probably get back in the saddle Monday.

Bloody stupid quote IMHO.

>The Cannonball Run was a fictional account of an actual race that was widely panned as idiotic, unlawful and unwelcome. They didn’t have the benefit of internet forums but I read the papers. This is not fiction, it’s actual idiocy, unwanted and unwelcome in the same manner. You argue that the fact of the dramatization’s existence justifies the subject matter, but there are many movies about serial killers, no?

>You understand the sentiment but deride it’s expression. So you only mean to be contrarian, good for you.

>You make a biased assumption. I did not read all of this but saw many people were cyclist too. It is not assumption to conclude you have no means of knowing of what you speak.

>Another biased assumption and what might be a fat joke. Why did you try to make it seem you had a separate point?

>Cars are dangerous all here agree that traffic should be orderly and predictable which requires all users to try and be safe in that way. You make their point that the bikers in video are no good.

>The tactics employed are specifically intended to cause disruption, unlike most cyclist who may run stop sign but never run light. Attention seeking scofflaw is not an attempt to be safe.

>No one has argued they have right to break speed law, and if my car were 500x my area it would be as big as my house. As for your oil & terrorist talk, you also drive you admit. You may be crazy, so maybe you are in video?

>Another all or nothing rationale. it is another fail and a self-contradictory statement.

>Another like the last, no points awarded, deductions made for assumptions, again.

>In summation, you agree that people do not want bad behaviour in traffic and it is a widely held concensus. It is not anti-bike to rail against this stuff just like it is not anti-car to be critical of any aspect of cars. All bike and car threads grow this way, it is not special, only to you. 

I will not see yo tomorrow and do not want to have sex with you at all.

Also as he was a notable & respected journalist if he had quoted you he likely would have also had the decency to attribute.