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[azurelunatic]

Holding the cellphone to the ear while riding a bicycle is a new one. The sheer dumb astounds. In traffic.

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[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

You hadn't seen that before? I see it all the time here. Then again, bicyclists are more common here.

[azurelunatic]

Are they usually on the sidewalk, in a bike lane, or in the street?

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

In Portland, in the street. And just about anywhere else.

[azurelunatic]

Yiiii.

[silmarian.livejournal.com]

Worst I ever saw was a dipshit riding his motorcycle and talking on his cell phone.

[azurelunatic]

That is not a good combination. I think of bicycles and motorcycles taking more active steering than cars. And a car and a hands-on cellphone is not safe.

[silmarian.livejournal.com]

Not only is steering a motorcycle a lot more participatory than steering a car, you use your right hand for the gas and front brake, and your left for the clutch. Having a hand off the handlebars long enough to talk on a cellphone is just asking to become a smear on the road.

Maybe he was expecting his leather jacket to save him.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

I'm not even going to comment about the inherent stupidity of having ones' ear *accessible* to a phone while riding a motorcycle--due to what this means re: brain-bucket.

(Oops. Too late. Guess I'm commenting on that after all....)