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Randomness ([personal profile] randomness) wrote2005-07-02 07:37 am

Clearly, it's past time for me to get my bike license.

I just woke up from a dream in which I was riding a small-displacement bike down an off-ramp of I-91 into New Haven.

[identity profile] jtdiii.livejournal.com 2005-07-02 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm,

Do you really trust the other drivers on I-91 enough to actually do that... :)

I swear CT drivers are getting stupid. I passed three remarkable accidents this week where they lost control after the recent rains. One had lost control and slid backwards into a swamp. Another managed to hit a telephone pole such that the car rotated around the pole on a axis centered just behind the driver side wheel, one foot into the engine compartment, making a 180 degree arc on the lawn. The other was an 18 wheeler that was lying on its side in a mud flat where it rolled off the road.

I would personally want a lot more steel around me amongst these people...

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
As you know, I do most of my driving nowadays up in Eastern MA. And I know you're familiar with traffic up here, from long experience. :)

'Nuff said?
muffyjo: (laugh)

[personal profile] muffyjo 2005-07-02 02:23 pm (UTC)(link)
You might want to get the bike...and the trailer to hitch to you car to put it on to drive to the places where it's safer to drive.

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
Say! I was going to reply to your first comment by saying "Sure!" but then you deleted it. :)

Anyway, I don't yet have my license yet, so my subconscious is definitely getting ahead of me. But yes, that's a fine idea.

[identity profile] comicoffee.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
I 91 is a scary road...
Who are you?

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Who are you?

Hi...it's Leon.

(Anonymous) 2005-07-06 08:07 am (UTC)(link)
Er, what's a "small-displacement bike" ? --JohnAbbe

[identity profile] r-ness.livejournal.com 2005-07-06 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's a bike that's got a small engine. "Small" really depends on context: I've seen people refer to bikes with engines of 600cc as "small-displacement"; in a lot of other countries that's a big bike.