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Dirtyspeed
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RVK wrote: Campus biking is hell: beware the mountain bikers, u-locks a-jingling from the handlebars. Winter is over, pleasant street is pleasant no more. But on the bright side, they could all be driving cars... I always know that spring is here or fall session has started because of all the mountain bikes with squeaky chains while the biker is peddling like mad because they don't down shift and they are going slow with their headphones on weaving within the lane. But, yes, better than cars.
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Jerbear
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| Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:00 am |
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Church Street between Physics and MechE is some kind of vortex of idiocy among the oblivious pedestrians with headphones crossing willy-nilly, cars turning around by the loading dock, scooters without a concern for anyone else (and using up half the bike rack), etc.
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joe
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:42 pm |
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 Saw Greg Lemond once at a restaurantJoined: Fri Sep 15, 2006 11:48 pmPosts: 2003Location: seward
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I almost got creamed by a young woman riding a scooter about to cross the washington avenue bridge.
Jeeez those people really piss me off. I wish umpd would watch for them more..
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eviljelly
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:55 pm |
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joe wrote: I almost got creamed by a young woman riding a scooter about to cross the washington avenue bridge.
There's absolutely no excuse for this. It's not even convenient to take the scooter up onto the pedestrian level, and the speed limit is 30 mph on the vehicle level! Jeez.
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HerculesTRockefeller
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:18 pm |
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 My middle name is SchwinnJoined: Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:12 pmPosts: 4094Location: Quoting Lebowski.
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I saw a swurvy bike on the bottom deck of the bridge going about 10mph. When they crossed, they proceeded to carry their bike up the stairs by Wiley Hall, exactly to where the top deck ends. Why?
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Jerbear
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| Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:11 am |
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HerculesTRockefeller wrote: I saw a swurvy bike on the bottom deck of the bridge going about 10mph. When they crossed, they proceeded to carry their bike up the stairs by Wiley Hall, exactly to where the top deck ends. Why? Maybe they didn't know the ped level of the bridge was open again.
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pannierpacker
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:54 pm |
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eviljelly wrote: joe wrote: I almost got creamed by a young woman riding a scooter about to cross the washington avenue bridge.
There's absolutely no excuse for this. It's not even convenient to take the scooter up onto the pedestrian level, and the speed limit is 30 mph on the vehicle level! Jeez. isnt it 45 on the lower deck? I believe the 30 mph speed limit doesnt kick in until you get onto the east bank. It wouldnt be fun riding a scooter on the lower deck either (bike or scooter, still dangerous), but it belongs more down there than it does on the upper deck.
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eviljelly
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| Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:39 pm |
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| Shares birthday with Lance..... Ito!Joined: Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:14 pmPosts: 4577Location: nowhere and everywhere
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pannierpacker wrote: eviljelly wrote: joe wrote: I almost got creamed by a young woman riding a scooter about to cross the washington avenue bridge.
There's absolutely no excuse for this. It's not even convenient to take the scooter up onto the pedestrian level, and the speed limit is 30 mph on the vehicle level! Jeez. isnt it 45 on the lower deck? I believe the 30 mph speed limit doesnt kick in until you get onto the east bank. It wouldnt be fun riding a scooter on the lower deck either (bike or scooter, still dangerous), but it belongs more down there than it does on the upper deck. They changed it a while back. Going from the West Bank to the East Bank, the speed limit turns to 30 mph before the on-ramp from in front of the Hub, before where the buses pick up on the lower deck. Going from the East Bank to the West Bank, it doesn't turn into a highway (i.e. over 30 mph) until after the off-ramp. So, no, I don't think it's dangerous to scoot on the lower deck. Except that there are at least as many bad student drivers out there as there are student bikers.
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sveden
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:54 am |
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Fuck you. See you next fall you blithering, i-pod deaf, text messaging mass of obliviousness.
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reptile
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| Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 10:05 am |
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sveden wrote: Fuck you. See you next fall you blithering, i-pod deaf, text messaging mass of obliviousness. FTMFW
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reptile
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:30 pm |
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oh noze....the wrestling camp kids are back. lets see how many jaywalking fools get hit 
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Whatsisname
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:33 pm |
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 Saw Greg Lemond once at a restaurantJoined: Tue Dec 26, 2006 7:01 pmPosts: 1986Location: Lake Calhoun
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One of my guilty pleasures when I lived in dinkytown was to pass them as close as possible as fast as possible when they were jaywalking, often going in between groups of them. reptile wrote: oh noze....the wrestling camp kids are back. lets see how many jaywalking fools get hit
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:15 pm |
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I do this too. Guiltily. Not just at the U. I really hope that sometimes it actually wakes them up. Probably not though. I should stop before I clip someone. Whatsisname wrote: One of my guilty pleasures when I lived in dinkytown was to pass them as close as possible as fast as possible when they were jaywalking, often going in between groups of them. reptile wrote: oh noze....the wrestling camp kids are back. lets see how many jaywalking fools get hit
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roaster boy
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reptile wrote: oh noze....the wrestling camp kids are back. lets see how many jaywalking fools get hit Is that what they were, I really considered running one over on the way home the other night, but figured the little shit wasn't worth taco-ing the wheel over. It's that stare you in the eye and walk real slowly that bugs the fuck outta me. Ramming speed.
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omgmrj
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:59 pm |
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roaster boy wrote: Ramming speed. Throw some bayonets on this 
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