John wayne

[Bawanna]

You know its pretty easy to click your turn signal and pass when its safe...

Sadly in my valley that can be miles and miles with curves and slight hills, lots of blind spots.
I have no issue with considerate bicyclist, it's the ones that ride 2 or 3 abreast with no consideration in the least for people getting to work or coming home or going to the bicycle shop so they can be a holes too.

A week ago I encountered a string of them with a car following acting as a blocker I guess with the flashers going. He was waving me around in places that I could not see nearly far enough ahead to pass. The car made it even worse as you had to get around him first. No gap between him and the bikes so created an all or nothing.

I'm instructed my wife that if it comes down to a head on or putting some bicyclist in the ditch, put em in the ditch.

[yqtszhj]

I can tell we're getting older. You know the old saying.... "Don't mess with an old man cause he'll just kill you." seems to rising to the fore around this ole pot belly stove of a forum.

You know, i have that thought guite regularly. I'm only early 50's but I've decided I'm too tired to fight and take longer to heal so I'll avoid what I can but if something starts look for me to decisively take the level of action necessary to stop the problem so that I can get back to the couch.

[berettabone]

He was plastered at least three quarters of the time, so I don't think he could hit a barn from 3 ft. away with a rock............................................

[Bawanna]

I'm checking my bible but I think it's a sin to criticize John Wayne.

[berettabone]

I wasn't really criticizing per say, it's just I was taught that whiskey and guns don't mix...............................I have been wrong before............

[jeepster09]

other than showing john was a crack shot, i don't get it. But it's all faked, john would never shoot anyone in the back.

What! Its fake! No way....John is the real deal!

[getsome]

The Duke was a mans man alright....He was a Conservative Republican and even thought about running for President in 1968 but figured nobody would vote for a movie star....Too bad he didn't and we got Nixon ....Watched what I think was one of the best westerns he ever made last night...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN0onE09-8c

John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Lee Marvin....Great stuff....Funny true Duke story, He was good frinds with actor Ward Bond and they liked to play tricks on each other...One time Ward bet him that he couldn't punch him from a newspaper page distance away and the Duke took him up on it....Ward walked over to a doorway and laid the newspaper page down on the floor and closed the door and said go ahead, punch me......The Duke hauled off and put his fist through the door and hit Ward smack in the face winning the bet....

As for bicycles I think they are fine on a bike trail, a park or a quiet neighborhood but when Captain Spandex who thinks he's Lance Armstrong is riding on an 8 lane highway holding up traffic then that's a different matter and they are a danger to both themselves and drivers that have to try and get around them.....Idiots that ride bicycles on major roads and highways are no different that crotch rocket motorcycle riders blasting by traffic at over 100 mph weaving in and out of lanes and are what give safe riders that obey the rules a bad name....

[ltxi]

Like CJB, I'm a cyclist who only wants a little common courtesy respect. Same as I extend to others....on a bike, driving a car, and otherwise. Unlike CJB, more in keeping with the Bawanna philosophy, I'd have no qualms about satisfyingly blowing a hole in an ass hole like that if I rather well knew I could get away with it. Fortunately I live in a pretty bicycle friendly place with a wide mix of riders and cyclists. Still, like almost always when I'm away from the house, I ride armed.

[Ikeo74]

Those damn bike riders are worse than sheep hearders , I told them not to cross my fence or there would be hell to pay!

[OldLincoln]

When I was a pup I rode a bike (only ever had one and that was passed down) all over town. Back then nobody even had fences so we kids had the run of the place. Instead of seen as a bother, folks just smiled and waved. Then eventually my begonias dropped and everything changed. I tried riding again years later but found I needed a tractor seat to give me room. Never tried since. Now driving, I picture riders as surrounded by an invisible ultra thin crystal sphere that can be shattered even coming close to them. I believe the modern term for that sphere is called a lawsuit. Every time you see one, think there goes another crystal lawsuit down the road.

[Ronni3_J]

Like CJB, I'm a cyclist who only wants a little common courtesy respect. Same as I extend to others....on a bike, driving a car, and otherwise. Unlike CJB, more in keeping with the Bawanna philosophy, I'd have no qualms about satisfyingly blowing a hole in an ass hole like that if I rather well knew I could get away with it. Fortunately I live in a pretty bicycle friendly place with a wide mix of riders and cyclists. Still, like almost always when I'm away from the house, I ride armed.

Same here! I've been riding with my CW380


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[jboyles123]

That may be John Wayne but that's definitely Clint Eastwood music!