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kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

Not a ton but the most commonly recurring angle I see in responses is about how dangerous cars are to two-wheelers, from the perspective of a bicyclist

I was a bicyclist, as a kid! I grew up in maybe the furthest-out part of a growing historic small town that still related to the downtown strip, before it was all by-car developments further out (Toll Brothers started with us).

Then later in high school I realized I could follow the town-to-town roads I recognized from my mom’s passenger seat to bike anywhere (and had to, to get anywhere, bcuz the area was now developed… through those developments where you drove anywhere)

Anyway in all of this I got driven off the road once… by a motorcycle

Also as a motorcyclist yeah, stuff that maybe even wouldn’t have dented my car made me sore for like two weeks and feel weird for two months after.