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dan brown said:Elizabeth et al : thanks for all the effort put into this year's ride.
it was great and the motorists seemed cool.
handing out flyers to some was nice too (thanks Pat for giving me those)
DB
Yes. It would have been great to have more flyers to hand out. It was pretty awkward to ride by silently when bystanders would ask what was going on.
But in general, wow! it was a huge and solemn and great experience.
Kudos also to the CPD bike patrol. On lots of occasions those officers rode right out into oncoming traffic to stop it.
I'd say give or take 300.
how do you respond to posts like this?
http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2010/05/19/ride-of-silence-good-intentio...
Being from Michigan, I believe they are surely wrong, and their logic is provincial in it's form. However, I believe M-bike is a well seasoned advocate for SE & Detroit area bicycling; but I was mystified by the article too.
It may be in part, that compared to full-on urban biking and the effort to gain and maintain equal access, respect and consideration for non-motorized users; the m-bike blog article author is overly conscious of the less dense urban to sub-urban communities, and the wariness prospective riders exhibit when faced with the reality of building critical mass in their own home areas. To me the analogy is... we all witness the fire engine responding to a fire... a police car to a robbery or shooting... a funeral possession. We don't stop living in a dwelling, because of fire risk alone - or going about our business because we could be robbed - or to live our life, because we could die. We get on with it...; and m-bike should too.
Chicago Ride of Silence said:how do you respond to posts like this?
http://www.m-bike.org/blog/2010/05/19/ride-of-silence-good-intentio...
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