Got hit by a boat while riding my bike...

[j_garcia]

Part of the beauty is you can cycle up until about the day you die. One of my friends is 74 and can absolutely murder me on a bike.

I get it that we don't heal quickly anymore. I can't believe my Achilles is taking this long to heal.

One of my buddies has been riding his whole life too. He is 80 and I can just keep up with him. Take care man. Glad you are OK. Sometimes when things go your way, you have to just cut your losses and call it a good thing.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

One of my buddies has been riding his whole life too. He is 80 and I can just keep up with him. Take care man. Glad you are OK. Sometimes when things go your way, you have to just cut your losses and call it a good thing.

We have the same exact ride tonight and I am betting I don't get hit by a boat.

 

[lovinthehd]

Greg, sorry for the experience and glad you're OK. Not gonna start and argument. You were right, the guy w/ the boat was wrong.

I understand how winding, two-lane roads around a lake are a problem. I see it every week, as I'm the guy in a pickup truck pulling the boat. The roads are quiet, wooded, peaceful, and I understand the attraction for biking. On the other hand, those same roads are the only access to the lake for boaters. The bicyclers have a choice. I don't.

Quite frequently I'm stuck behind a herd of bicyclers for miles because there is no safe place to pass. Miles. 10mph for miles. It is frustrating. While I creep along, I think about the extra taxes I pay for those roads via boat taxes, trailer license, trailer taxes, truck license, truck taxes, boat gas and truck gas. It is frustrating.

I don't know the answer. The guy who passed you on a curve was wrong. It's frustrating.

Cyclists in a pack might be referred to as a herd if they're all extremely overweight and slow as you make it sound, I suppose....but I've never seen one deliberately not allow someone to pass (both as a driver and a rider) unless the road was so badly built as to allow no place to actually pull over and with sufficient visibility in the oncoming lane (which I have encountered around some reservoirs/lakes).

As to how much a dent your vehicle tags or gas taxes puts in the real costs of roads and automobile-specific infrastructure in terms of government expenditures, let alone if its a reservoir you boat in, the usual estimate is less than half so non-vehicle owner taxpayers may actually contribute more to your vehicle/boat use than the other way around....I pay lots of taxes on my vehicles as well as those bikes (I purchased all my bikes with a sales tax applied, altho I now live in a state without such and my vehicle fees are much lower here than in California where I last lived).

 

[herbu]

 

[highfigh]

In the end, it probably isn't worth killing someone to get to the dock 4 minutes quicker.

If this is true, explain why a bass boat needs a 200HP motor.

YOU'RE NOT A FISHERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[ParadigmDawg]

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That is so true.

 

[ParadigmDawg]

If this is true, explain why a bass boat needs a 200HP motor.

YOU'RE NOT A FISHERMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man my Dad and his brother were big time in their 30's-50's. They were always on-uping each other with gear and boats. It got crazy as they would have modified 300 motors and turbo props. I remember when my Dad's finally hit the over 80 mph mark. When he would top it out, only the prop would be touching the water, it was crazy scary.

This was on a bass boat that was rated for 150 hp. One day the transom actually broke off and then he purchased a normal Skeeter with a 150 hp Evinrude and slowed way down.

I am not saying my Dad was dangerous but he didn't think twice about having me in his boat and going top end but he also built me a 6 ft ramp to jump my BMX bike off of in the front yard and a bottle rocket gun to shoot the other neighborhood kids....

 

[highfigh]

I am not saying my Dad was dangerous but he didn't think twice about having me in his boat and going top end but he also built me a 6 ft ramp to jump my BMX bike off of in the front yard and a bottle rocket gun to shoot the other neighborhood kids....

Well, that just sounds like good clean family fun!

My grade school had sections of concrete pipe on the playground, covered with asphalt (still does, but I doubt they allow what we did) and in one area, the filled part was more steeply inclined- what better place to ride a bike up and launch from? Sometimes, it didn't go well but it was always fun. The old inter-urban railway just West of my neighborhood had been discontinued years before I was born and they left the raised track bed after removing the rails. This was adjacent to a bar/restaurant/bowling establishment and the raised part was about 3' high, scooped on the East side, with the top about 6' below the level of the ground to the East. Another great place to launch from. Came home bloody many times. Good times! We had pop guns, cap guns, got a BB gun when I was about nine years old, bow and arrows, slingshots, a drug store that sold fireworks an they gave us the matches, areas where no buildings would go up (still haven't), a wooded area, fields, swamps and ponds and we used to hang out under the railroad trestle. Today's parents would be mortified if their kids did this stuff and we turned out OK. A little weird, but generally OK.

 

[herbu]

he also built me a 6 ft ramp to jump my BMX bike off of in the front yard and a bottle rocket gun to shoot the other neighborhood kids....

That's back when men were men, and boys were encouraged to be boys.

There are two reasons why bass fisherman need fast boats... to minimize travel time, (ie. time not fishing), and to get to the preferred spots before the other guy. Both are important to the tournament fisherman.

There is another reason why bass fisherman want fast boats. It's because boys and men like their toys, and often enjoy making them as exciting as possible. It's a guy thing. Has nothing to do with fishing. It's the same as fast cars, fast motorcycles, fast women, and even fast bicycles.

 

[highfigh]

That's back when men were men, and boys were encouraged to be boys.

There are two reasons why bass fisherman need fast boats... to minimize travel time, (ie. time not fishing), and to get to the preferred spots before the other guy. Both are important to the tournament fisherman.

There is another reason why bass fisherman want fast boats. It's because boys and men like their toys, and often enjoy making them as exciting as possible. It's a guy thing. Has nothing to do with fishing. It's the same as fast cars, fast motorcycles, fast women, and even fast bicycles.

In a tourney, I can see it but for the average guy, it seems like just a good way to drop $80K on a boat that sparkles.

I dated someone who had set several records in track meets as a sprinter and short distance events- she was pretty fast.

 

[herbu]

but for the average guy, it seems like just a good way to drop $80K on a boat that sparkles.

So what's your point?
See "why fishermen want a fast boat" above...

 

[highfigh]

So what's your point?
See "why fishermen want a fast boat" above...

Yeah, I know- 'need' has replaced 'want' as in, "I feel the need for speed!".