Cyclists/motorists fight at Nocturnal Wed 21st April

Nobody on two wheels likes an agressive, inept, or out of control driver.

What you "pub crawlers" did was idiotic, why not call the police to begin with. You drunken fools vandalised this car and had no right to touch it. Maybe someone should have let the air out of your bike tires when they judged you unable to pedal safely.

"After more discussion among
the cyclists, and some talking with the bouncer, it was decided to let the
air out of the tires of the driver's car"

You idiots, you vandalised a car outside a bar and got beat up for it. Do you have any idea what a metal car rim does to a flat tire? You dont even know for sure that the car in question was registered to that driver, you may have vandalised an innocent persons car.


"Neither of the hospitalized people have insurance. It would be great if a
collection came together to help them with their medical costs."

And now your pubcrawl group wants other people to cough up for the medical costs that resulted from your drunken vandalism and fighting. Grow-up morons.


"It would be great to hear if the police were able to get a hold of the
assaulters and what came of it. I don't know how to do this."

Well I guess the cops are your pals when you need them. Maybe the police will charge you with vandalism and mutual combat you drunken jerks deserve it. With spokepersons like yourselfs, cycling will never be respected thanks a lot frat-brats.

I applaud the spirit, bravery and cleverness of the solution these cyclists arrived at, and I think I'm going to have to add a valve core wrench to my toolbag. My friend Orion would not have died in front of the Immortal Piano Company if an alert person had let the air out of Lindsay Llaneza's tires. Leaking the location of the next stop was rather foolish, however. I hope everybody involved learns a little from this one.

Oh, and "cyclist", you may be missing the point...when is the last time you heard of a drunk cycylist killing anyone?

Drive sober, cycle sober, walk drunk.

cyclist said-"What you "pub crawlers" did was idiotic, why not call the police to begin with"

have you ever called and asked the police if they could do some thing about a drunk driver or drug dealers on your street or a crack house or a stollen bicycle or any thing like that?

if you have then you know they do not respond to these kind of things
and they will treat you like a crimminal yourself for even calling and bothering them with such things

personally i think letting out the air of their tires was a good idea

what if those on the pub crawl did nothing and then had to read in the paper the next day about people killed by this drunk driver?

ride on!

Rather than deflate tires fast which requires a tool, just find a BB size pebble, open the valve stem cap, insert the pebble into the cap and screw it back down. They get a slow leak, then a flat in an hour or so. The tire appears to have a normal flat and when the pebble falls out of the cap, the cause is undetectable.

in response to "cyclist" above:

let me see if i have this straight: you think it's inappropriate to cause property damage/commit vandalism to an automoblie and that the cops should be called to report a drunk in a bar that might drive home. however, you condone violence as a response to vandalism of ones property and do not think the cops should have been called after the 'crime' to this vehicle was discovered.

cracked. that is totally cracked.

neither vandalism nor violence is above the law. these two actions are however very different from one another. just ask the next cop you are relying on when you come close to your death at the hands of a druken driver.

it's vandalism of the most mild sort imaginable.

Really, now, how much lasting damage is caused by letting the air out of a tire?

deflating the tires all the way until the rim edges rest on rubber->ground would allow the full weight of the car to rest on the thin edges of the rims. This would cut the sidewalls of the tires. At best this would require the car owner to replace the tires at a cost of (reasonably) $200 or more. At worst the owner wouldn't notice or ignore the damage and drive on the tires until they failed. The resulting accident could cause thousands in damages and perhaps injure or kill someone.

The guy who suggested inducing a slow leak with a small pebble under the valve stem cap has a good idea. The deflated tire would interrupt driving but be noticeable long before causing damage.

Whoever does ANYTHING to make a drunk's car inoperable is performing a mitzvah for the world. Fuck the law; better than letting air out of tires would be cutting some wiring to make the car unstartable. Keeping drunks off the road is a good thing, it must be done by any means necessary. If you disagree with this you are a sub-person of absolute evil and stupidity.

yea, i had a car once
and it sat on a flat tire for a few days once
it did not have any damage to the tire or wheel from this
also
come on now
who is gonna drive a car with 4 flat tires
and do it fast enough to kill someone?

I absolutely agree that letting the air out of the tires is vandalism! The cyclists have no right to tamper with the motorist's car, despite his drunken condition. I agree with 'cyclist' that calling the police would have been a much more justified, and entirely less childish, course of action.

'the real cyclist', in response to 'cyclist' wrote: "you condone violence as a response to vandalism of ones property and do not think the cops should have been called after the 'crime' to this vehicle was discovered"

I don't remember anyone saying violence is a good response to vandalism! Calm down...

I also think its suspicious how the cyclists are now asking for money donations... That's just ridiculous. They're the ones who messed with that guys car, they're the ones who (seemingly) made no attempt to avoid the fight once initiated, and we're the ones who need to pay for their foolishness? Hmm...

Is a pub-crawl by a bunch of inebriated cyclists, which resulted in a bar-room brawl, the most important and earth-shattering thing to have happened in Portland?
Could you lot not have found something better to do? Such as organising a protest against the war?

There certainly are people who post on those things they don't know anything about. I've been on many bike pub crawls. I know that typically, if not almost universally, pub-crawling cyclists could not be characterized as "inebriated". The drinking is quite moderate, and I haven't ever seen a cyclist who wasn't totally incontrol.

Seconding that I've encountered a complete flat (when I had a car, back in the day) that did not damage the tire.

Note also, that the message was copied from an email. I'm sure the request for monetary donations was directed at the people on the email list, most of whom are acquainted with the few that went to the hospital. Many of us on that email list would also not have counted on the police, from previous experience trying to stop drunken driving, and would have similarly tried to prevent the person from driving.

Indeed, it's not easy to stay upright (essential for cyclists) when you have had too much drink, so "inebriated" may not be the correct word. But a "sober" person would be less likely to get into a barroom brawl. So they were neither "inebriated" nor "sober"? But they could have exercised better judgement.

The story is certainly not "earth-shattering" tho.

That was some crazy stuff there. I felt real sorry them poor hippy bikers, as they looked like total pussies in the grand equation. I remember one dude with dreds and a real high voice got messed up real bad. He didnt even try to fight back!
Y'all got what you deserved, Here's my picture

I want my 2 minutes back. I can't believe I read this article.

BTW, Multnaomah prosecuted more than 3,000 DUII cases last year.

FROM SHIfT LIST
 http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/shift/2004-03/msg00193.html

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I've just read an article in Ride Magazine (an east coast bike culture
magazine) discussing killer drivers and the general lack of consequences to
these drivers. There was a very distubing statistic: In 1999 New York City
drivers killed 419 cyclists and pedestrians. Only ELEVEN were charged with
assault or manslaughter. For various reasons, including some archaic laws
on the books, its actually quite difficult to charge drivers in NY with a
crime in these cases.

I'm wondering if anyone here is aware of what the "stats" are here in
Oregon. Ie. Numbers of pedestrians and cyclists hit by vehicles, and how
many of the drivers were ultimately charged and/or convicted.

Susan

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Folks,

I don't think we're talking about bicycles here. The original post talks about a "distinctive chopper" parked in front of the last bar.

How many "chopped" bicycles have you seen?

As someone who was on the Bike Pub Crawl (in the beginning), I can attest that definitely the ride was by bicyclists and not motorcyclists. There are "chopped" bicycles all over town, where have you been? Uh, you're kidding, right?

Is most likely the the chopper bicycle in question. There are tons of chopped and tall bikes all over town. Zoobomb, Dead Babies, C.H.V.N.K., all rolling around on chopper bikes. If you had went to the 11th Anniversary tallbike jousting contest you would know this, but then you'd have to hang out with those PBR drinking hipsters. Get back on your full fendered 21 speed Trek with 16 lights and stay in the bike lane.

sober cyclist says-
"indeed, it's not easy to stay upright (essential for cyclists) when you have had too much drink, so "inebriated" may not be the correct word. But a "sober" person would be less likely to get into a barroom brawl. So they were neither "inebriated" nor "sober"? But they could have exercised better judgement. "

what i think some people may not understand is that this was an attack
not a fight
they didnt say a word
just came in swinging
the few punches that were given to the attackers were in self defense (drunk or sober dosnt matter)

but im confused
mabey some of you think its ok to beat people up

Is that the cyclists started this whole affair. They're the ones who started this by butting in where they didn't belong and by letting the air out of the tires to begin with.

They (the cyclists) are not police and as such have no right to say that someone shouldn't be driving. That was up to the barstaff, not the cyclists.

That they got called on it comes as no surprise to me. They got what they deserved.

Do you realize that very recently 2 people were mowed down in that neighborhood by a drunk driver, you know, KILLED, and the son of a bitch only got 18 years? Do you realize the cops are too busy shooting black people to give a fuck about drunk car drivers smashing into bicyclists? I don't think a beatdown is an appropriate response to the childish prank of letting air out of someone's tires. And I hope the next time someone tries to beat up a cyclist they get busted in the mouth with a U-lock.

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If I could relive that night I would have done more to his car. (Actually I didn't do anything that night other than say it was a good idea). Considering his eventual almost random reaction (He just stormed into the bar and starting punching everyone in sight, without even trying to find out who flatted his tires), I would have confronted him on his reckless engangerment of our lives before I drank another beer.

I would also have liked to try out this theory I have for disabling a murder-wagon (motor-vehicle). Since a car will stall and not re-start if it's exhaust system is jammed, it should be possible to disable one by putting a free-wheeled pedal under the tail-pipe and then standing on the other pedal to crimp the offending pollution source shut. The car won't be able to run again unless the exhaust is either disconnected or the end of the tail-pipe is cut off (which should cause the exhaust to corrode a hole in their bumper which might make them think about what they are doing to all of our lungs)

Seatac Reader says
"Is that the cyclists started this whole affair"

i would say that when a speading car with a drunk driver comes screaching around a corner, fishtailing and allmost hitting several bicyclists
i would say that mabey, just mabey that would be what started the whole thing

mabey letting the air out of a drunk drivers car tires, that allmost killed you,(when he is inside of a bar drinking more, and is not responsive to requests to find another way around) is a bad idea
better to just go home and hope that he dosnt kill anyone,
or call the police, because they tottaly respond to reports of drunk drivers.............NOT!