The enemy is us?

Man, if you think bicyclists are loathed now, look back a hundred or so years.  Check out this interesting post from the Chicago Reader's blog: Wheel of Misfortune.

Brendan.

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Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on February 9, 2010 at 5:17pm
Wow this was loads of fun to read, thanks for posting it. I love all the terms, especially "cagers" for automobile drivers, I aim to bring that term back into fashion as its so...appropriate. People *are* operating giant metallic cages. And I wonder what these authors would think of all the hipsters "scorching" down Milwaukee Avenue at 20mph a hundred odd years later on their "noiseless steeds". I cannot imagine riding my fixie into a horse, truly incredible that this happened with such frequency. I love the part where the author indicates 10% of the accidents in June and July were due to "persons falling from their wheels, overcome by heat, stricken with heart failure, or from some cause for which overexertion is responsible." The horror, bwhaha!

Certainly one thing can be agreed upon, and that is the quote that "The fact must be accepted that the wheel is here to stay."

Indeed it has.
Permalink Reply by Chuck a Muck on February 9, 2010 at 6:19pm
I love all the terms, especially "cagers" for automobile drivers, I aim to bring that term back into fashion. I really don't think that it ever went out of fashion. I've heard that term used for drivers for at least 30 years now among both skaters and bikers...
Permalink Reply by Reddog (Cliff) on February 9, 2010 at 6:29pm
you still gotta watch out for Teamsters though.
Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on February 10, 2010 at 2:36am
I think you need to have a nice martini and relax by the fire.

H3N3 said:
I think the Reader blogger's condescending text aimed at putting down contemporary bike advocates is being mixed up with the content of the article unless chixie was trying to be funny (not sure).

Chuck a Muck said:
I love all the terms, especially "cagers" for automobile drivers, I aim to bring that term back into fashion. I really don't think that it ever went out of fashion. I've heard that term used for drivers for at least 30 years now among both skaters and bikers...
Permalink Reply by Duppie on February 10, 2010 at 3:16am
Wabblers.
That term by itself made reading the article worthwile :)

Thanks for posting
Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on February 10, 2010 at 3:39am
Chuck a Muck said:
I love all the terms, especially "cagers" for automobile drivers, I aim to bring that term back into fashion. I really don't think that it ever went out of fashion. I've heard that term used for drivers for at least 30 years now among both skaters and bikers...

and motorcyclists - unless that is what you meant by "bikers".
Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on February 10, 2010 at 8:52am
That one made me laugh.

Duppie said:
Wabblers.
That term by itself made reading the article worthwile :)

Thanks for posting
Permalink Reply by Chris B on February 10, 2010 at 9:49am
Everything means something else!
Permalink Reply by Barry Niel Stuart on February 10, 2010 at 10:50am
I've heard the term "cagers" used for automobile drivers from Harley-Davidson riders. Over here by Harley-Davidson and the Harley-Davidson Museum, there are designated areas for motorcycle parking that say "Motorcycles Only, No Cages Allowed".
Permalink Reply by Dave Jacque on February 10, 2010 at 11:08am
"Fooling with cars impolitic" is still good advice for all of us, wabblers and scorchers alike.
Permalink Reply by cutifly on February 10, 2010 at 12:45pm
agree

Dave Jacque said:
"Fooling with cars impolitic" is still good advice for all of us, wabblers and scorchers alike.
Permalink Reply by S. Campbell on February 11, 2010 at 4:46am
Even a hundred years ago it was recognized that if you wanted to be treated like traffic, you must act like traffic. Yes, sometimes it means stopping and putting your foot down at an intersection (stoplights and stopsigns heeded and right of way given to vehicles that have the potential to kill you) and riding slowly sometimes.

Jeez, we as a group (with the exception of all those supersafe obey-the-law-no-matter-what types) haven't learned much have we? :)

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