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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]One of the ways you can tell someone doesn't really bike is they fall back on this canard about how difficult and vigorous biking is.[/quote]

E-bikes have certainly made biking less difficult and accessible for more adults.  That said, with the way DC seems to design bike lanes, I worry about what happens when some heavier e-bike or cargo bike slams into an elderly lady who is crossing the bike lane from a Metro "bus island" to the curb.
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Do you also worry about what happens when some heavier (multi-ton) motor vehicle slams into an elderly lady who is crossing the street from a bus stop? Because bike lanes reduce the opportunities for that to happen.[/quote]

[b]First of all, bus islands are typically located not right at the crosswalk.[/b]  Second, motor vehicles (while heavier) tend to stop at traffic signals more than the Charge of the Lycra Brigade does.[/quote]

Here are some things that bus riders do:

Cross the street at intersections
Cross the street between intersections

And here are some things that drivers do:

Hit bus riders crossing the street at intersections
Hit bus riders crossing the street between intersections

Also, you seem to define "bicyclist" as "person wearing a lurid team jersey," which is not the correct definition, and may explain your inability to see bicyclists. The correct definition for bicyclist is "person riding a bike."[/quote]

Amazing "lurid/lycra" autocorrect there! Maybe bike commuters should wear all lurid jerseys; we WOULD be much easier to see.[/quote]

Not an autocorrect. My jeans have lycra. Nobody would describe my jeans as lurid, or me as part of the "Lycra Brigade" when I bike wearing jeans. Also, based on my experience, I'm equally invisible to drivers when I'm wearing lurid hi-vis colors while biking and when I'm wearing regular clothes while biking. Even regular clothes that are black. No difference. I don't understand how I can be invisible, but invisible I apparently am. A bicycle superpower, I guess.[/quote]

I guess I was thinking more of definition #2 of "lurid," which really would make for an eye-catching bike jersey:

[i](of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crimes or sexual matters.
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