{"id":136761999,"date":"2009-05-02T21:26:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T21:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136761999"},"modified":"2009-05-02T21:26:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T21:26:39","slug":"catch-phrases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136761999","title":{"rendered":"Catch phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Note: Edited out some of the more controversial positions.]<br \/>\nWho am I?<br \/>\n* Vehicular Cyclist<br \/>\n* Pedestrian on Wheels<br \/>\n* Scofflaw Cyclist<br \/>\n* Safety Nanny Cyclist<br \/>\n\u201cEvery evening before I go to sleep, I kneel at the side of my bed and repeat the following mantra exactly seven times: \u2018Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI fare best when I stay the heck out of the way.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cDuring my morning commute, I like to sing \u2018Same Roads \u2013 Same Rights \u2013 Same Rules\u2019 to the tune of \u2018Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It\u2019s off to work I go\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI prefer to ride integrated with other traffic on sharable roads, sharable width lanes, and bikeable shoulders.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI like to ride separated from other traffic, preferably on substandard, congested, slow, and dangerous bike lanes, gutters, sidewalks, paths, and whatever other bike ghettos I can find.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI go somewhere to ride.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI ride to go somewhere.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe need more education, more regulation, more law enforcement, to make sure everyone is riding safely and properly.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI prefer to ride like a grown-up.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI believe in the magical powers of white paint to protect me from the evil cagers.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe only law I follow is the law of the jungle: the strong survive and the weak get eaten.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not afraid of traffic, I am traffic.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe laws of physics trump the laws of the state every time.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMy legitimacy as a road user is threatened by all the meek, immature, and criminally insane cyclists out there.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cA collision requires that two people make a mistake \u2013 all I have to do is make sure I\u2019m not one of them.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhere I live, there\u2019s a fantastic network of bike paths that will take me anywhere I need to go \u2013 they\u2019re called roads.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showthread.php?threadid=536553\">https:\/\/www.bikeforums.net\/showthread.php?threadid=536553<\/a><br \/>\nOne of my catch phrases: Be a considerate cyclists when drivers are considerate and be an assertive cyclists when drivers are assertive.oldId.20090502212639275<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Note: Edited out some of the more controversial positions.] Who am I? * Vehicular Cyclist * Pedestrian on Wheels * Scofflaw Cyclist * Safety Nanny Cyclist \u201cEvery evening before I go to sleep, I kneel at the side of my bed and repeat the following mantra exactly seven times: \u2018Cyclists fare best when they act &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136761999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Catch phrases&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136761999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136761999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136761999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136761999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136761999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136761999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136761999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}