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My husband is an avid bike rider.  The bike controls EVERYTHING in our household, from where we bought a house to how we will retire. [/b]The dedication bike riders have to their sport is beyond anything I’ve ever seen, and it’s supported by other riders. It’s as close to a cult as I’ve ever seen.[/quote]

Lots and lots of people don't ride bikes as a sport. They ride bikes as a means of transportation.[/quote]

By choice. That’s a sport[/quote]

You drive by choice. So it's a sport. Right?[/quote]

I drive as a means of getting from point A to point B as a necessity most times. Because it's not practical to ride my bike to the grocery store to buy groceries for an entire family. Or to go visit my family in another state.

So far we've had the avid bikers here claim that a man who had his pants torn and his leg cut by a biker, was in the wrong because it was a 'near miss' and that a woman who was in a right hand turn lane with a biker behind her was in the wrong because somehow the biker has both the right to the road AND the right to come up on the side of the woman and take the right turn in front of her, when he was behind her to begin with. He was supposed to cue up behind her like a car because bikers say that bikes are equivalent to cars.

The problem with avid bikers is they want both the rights of cars, and the ability to cut off cars, block cars, etc.[/quote]

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