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Originally Posted by Al Bockman
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It takes bigger cojones to get passed by a semi doing 60 mph only 2 feet from your elbow than anything you'll probably ever do.
Al

Al;
Have you ever been targeted by a SAM while flying over hostile air space thousands of miles from home? Ever landed on a carrier at night in black out battle conditions? I stand by my observations. Here in DFW we have built numerous paths and lanes FOR bicycles that are ignored while bikes ride down the street. Often BETWEEN lanes of stopped or slow cars, illegal turns against traffic and so on. It doesn't take 'cajones' to have a semi go by at 60 at your elbow. It takes stupidity. It also takes stupidity to ride in a pack fanned out over roads covered in blind turns with a 40-50 MPH speed limit seemingly oblivious to the danger wrought by a mass of steel running in the opposite direction. Climb off the soap box and get on the bike trail.