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Date:         Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:45:03 -0500
Reply-To:     chris Moyles <chris@FAUQUIERHOUSING.ORG>
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From:         chris Moyles <chris@FAUQUIERHOUSING.ORG>
Subject:      Re: "Blue light" incidents..NVC..
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I am the proud recipient of a bicycle speeding ticket from Boulder, Colorado- 44 mph in a 25.

c Don Hanson wrote: > Some years ago, we took the split window VW panel south from Jackson Hole, > Wyoming, for our normal springtime Baja trip. On the way south, we swung > by So California to visit my brother's family, still living in my childhood > home in Belmont Shores..now an up-scale marina area and quite congested. We > had our race bicycles along, so, having grown up on a bike in the area and > having an adventure-some and fit female cyclist as a companion, we decided > to go out on our bikes for some fun in the traffic.. > After doing the 'bike-messenger' thing up and down the main street, > dodging cars, ducking through alleys, jumping curbs and generally being 'not > grown-up' we were headed home across the bridge that spans the Long Beach > Marine Stadium. The only hill we'd seen all day, so predictably, we had to > see how fast we could go...A 6- lane bridge full of traffic (that we passed > easily) with a signal at the bottom. When we were kids, we always just > turned right, then quick left onto the 'feeder' street that paralleled the > main street and kept right on going... > So, we did that and at the next signal we encounter a policeman with his > car stopped and light flashing...Huh? He points right at us and motions us > to the curb...and tells us we'd been clocked at 52mph in a 25 zone! Illegal > turn without a stop--no signals--passing on the right--blah blah blah!.. > Wanted our drivers licenses...Huh? To ride a bike? Drivers license?..Speed > limit?---we played it dumb---Then Marie, my now S.O., plays the Wyoming Hick > Card. (she happened to have her Wyoming license with her..it has that cool > outline of a cowboy on a bucking bronc as a background).."Well shucks, > officer, we're sorry, we come from Wyomin', and up there, if there ain't no > cows to harm, you kin do 'bout anythin' you want"... > He let us go after shaking his head in disbelief.. > The old '57 36hp van worked great, btw, as usual..Slower than the bikes, > but ... > Don Hanson > > >


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