Tom Keats said:In article <[email hidden]>,
Bill said:Quoted message said:The answer is simple: since the damned road is so bicycle-hostile,
then JUST DON'T RIDE ON IT! Some roads are truly unridable, and
that's one of the facts of life that we just have to accept.If that's the only road you've got, it's nobody else's fault
that you've chosen to live near a gravel pit.cheers, & "I like bashing my thumb with a hammer because it
feels so good when I stop,"
Tom--
-- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden.
I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:And,
As I have stated before I have no other way into the higher
mountains because of that God damned Beale AFB in the way. The base is
about ten miles on a side and I have even been detained by base FEDs and
sent home in a sheriff's car. I didn't choose to live near a gravel pit
and even if I lived in the next town (or 2) over that pit and friggin
base would still be there. If I want to do some mountain work that road
is the ONLY way to get there. Why don't you try to call my bluff and
Google it so you can try to say I am lying. Everyone else likes to nit
pick everything I say so join the group.
Quoted message said:
Bill, you misunderstand me. I believe you, that this road is so
bicycle-hostile. I just question the wisdom of your decision to
ride on it (in whatever manner) anyways.If it's so bad, I think you should just leave it alone, and find
other [a]venues. There are roads & streets that I don't dare set
wheel upon, like Vancouver's East 1st Avenue, or New Westminster's
Stewardson Way.If you don't have other roads available -- that's just the way
it is. I'd love to do some deep-sky optical astronomy, but I
live in a light-polluted city. That's just the way it is.
What can be done about either of our plights?
There actually is NO alternative to this one road and that is a big
thanks to Beale AFB being so damned big and right between me and the
mountain roads I like to get to. The main problem with the base is that
they own all the land around it and act as if it was area 51 or
something. It covers about 100 square miles, most of which is nothing,
would be good farmland, but they keep it as a buffer zone so you can't
get close enough to see the main runway and hangar area. I think there
are still some 'Black-ops' going on there. Hence, I have to live with
this big roadblock in my way.
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:I ride for survivability (Mine).
Well, I think a big part of surviving while riding is selecting
routes that are less likely to kill ya.
There are others but they are all flat and if I use them to get to the
mountains I have just put about 15 extra miles on my legs before I get
to a decent climb.
And I'm not picking
Quoted message said:on you. I just don't want you getting ran-over by a stoopid
gravel truck. Y'know what else gravel trucks are bad for?
They get these big, egg-sized/shaped rocks stuck in between
their rear tires, and then randomly fling them off. I wouldn't
want you or anyone else getting clobbered that way, either.
Gravel trucks are good things to avoid. Hell, big chunks of
bark flying off loaded logging trucks cam be another,
similar hazard.
One of my flat roads has it's own set of hazards in the way of farm
machinery. There have been a few times when I have had to stop and
dismount so I could get me and the bike almost into a ditch to void a
tractor pulling some huge field plowing equipment about 15 feet wide. I
don't know if it could be folded up or not but he had to drive down the
middle of the road so as not to take out mailboxes on either side of the
street.
Quoted message said:
I think you should just leave this road alone. But if you
won't, don't complain or brag about it.cheers,
Tom
It doesn't do any good either way, the road is still there and the Air
Force base isn't going away anytime soon either. The road is good on
Sundays only since the trucks are running every Saturday.
Compromises.
Bill Baka