My Letter Made the San Jose Mercury News Today

[pandy]

Red is the colour of red-hot passion! 

[ajgs500]

I thought that pink was the color of passion?

[scratch]

Correct; that would be pink.  The deeper the red in the pink, the deeper the passion.  The whiter a pink is, the more innocent the passion is.  White is the color of innocense, purity and superiority.  Driver's of white cars tend to have superiority complexes.

[ajgs500]

I dont even want to know how you know all of that.

[pandy]

Correct; that would be pink.  The deeper the red in the pink, the deeper the passion.  The whiter a pink is, the more innocent the passion is.  White is the color of innocense, purity and superiority.  Driver's of white cars tend to have superiority complexes.

You're good...you're VERY good! 

[brett]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14743448.htm

Ouch Pandy, today's crowd was pretty harsh. A couple of jealous cagers and apparently the only 3 riders in California that don't split. Don't let 'em get you down, your letter was good, albeit misunderstood by some.

Also, have you noticed that just about every Roadshow column in the past week has been about bikes? Good job on starting that trend.

[pandy]

I'm not at all surprised that the subject inspires such passion (passion that obviously leads some to try to harm others). Motorcyclists want to do what we CAN do (and is legal to do). Automobiles get ticked because someone going by (it doesn't even have to be at an unreasonable speed) startles them, and they spill their Starbux all over the newspaper they were reading as they were trying to eat their breakfast in peace as they were driving to work.

And many motorcyclists feel strongly about one thing or another. One motorcyclist felt that sharing lanes is worse than wearing no helmet. My opinion is exactly the opposite. I wouldn't be caught riding without a helmet, but I'll share lanes. A lot of what I see in today's Roadshow column (thanks for posting it, because I hadn't had a chance to check it out for the past few days) is just silly. One motorcylist writes that he thinks I'm nuts to share lanes (and I respect his opinion and his choice), and then he goes on to say, "Nope, she's got a right to some indignation but it ain't the righteous kind. Tom Trask, Sunnyvale" I can't say I respect that fact that he doesn't believe indignation over assault with a deadly weapon is righteous.

There are many bikers who give the rest of us a bad name, and I see them every day during my commute. It's a real shame that those bad apples colour ALL bikers in a bad light in some peoples' minds.

P.S. Mr. Roadshow is going to re-visit this topic again in a few days....should be interesting...