Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

?? #1, I hope I'm reading that wrong. I mean that's sarcasm right? Aimed at the O piece? Right? Sheesh I hope so. You know, I commented on the oregondead site last night. I mentioned then, because no other comment had, that this was a hit and run. That article was so poorly written it's amazing I deduced this. Yet, today I was recanting my theory in favor of deciphering in another way. That the police had apprehended the motorist, and the O was only mentioning the cyclist because they were injured. Supporting the notion that the driver had not fled.

Knowing now that this is a hit-and-run has me furious, again, with the DAs office, and PPB (Sorry guys, I call it like I see it.), and I'm completely dismayed that this isn't a major criminal incident here. I'm biased of course, and am reluctant to E-psychoanalyze the authorities, but gee-whiz it seems like they're being kind of, 'eh, about it.

I'll give 'em the brake thing because the technical argument is unwieldy. But I can point to a gear on the dang bike involved here, if they're going to be semantic...twice..., and show you not one, but two gears, at that. Getting pretty close to retraction worthy, IMO.

Hey, jerk:

I wasn't aware that there was a curfew in place, and that the curfew applied only to bicyclists, not motorists. I also wasn't aware that operating a fixed-gear bike (one gear, pedal-operated rear brake) somehow takes your right to not get seriously injured by other traffic.

Ummm why is everyone convienently overlooking the fact that the one undisputed fact so far in this case is that the biker confronted the driver and leaned into the car.

If someone whether its a pedestrian, byclist or anothe driver aggressively leans into a vehicle that's assault. If he actually hit the driver than that's battery too.

As someone who bikes a lot I have seen too many careless drivers almost kill bikers. I'm very sympathetic. But this seems like two dicks swinging to see who was tougher and the guy without airbags lost. Stupid for the bike community to defend this guy based on the evidence so far.

@finnegan

You seem to be convienently overlooking the fact that the driver of the car had already engaged in threatening behavior.

"Stevenson yelled and the car and it backed up."

Yeah but backing a car up to have a verbal altercation and leaning into a car to confront someone is the difference. One is verbal jousting the other crosses the line to assault. Now what the driver did, depending on what happened in the car, could be both assault and battery.
But it appears neither party is innocent here.

Here's a crazy idea: since we don't know what actually happened, maybe, just maybe, we should let the police and the DA do their job and BUTT OUT.

Sounds like none of you dumb asses know what you're talking about. Crack reportage Merc.

Wah wah wah, those poor bicyclists who pay absolutely no mind to the rules of the road then cry foul when they get fucked up.


Just today, I lost count of the number of people on bikes who didn't feel like stopping at a.) a red light, or b.) a STOP sign, and nearly plowed into me when I was in the crosswalk.

1 am is not a good time to be trying to point out to someone that they have committed an infraction. Especially if you're on a bike and they are in a car. If there's an altercation, guess who loses. Most likely the people in the car may have been drinking, and for all we know the cyclist was too. Seems to me that there is blame on both sides, but if, in fact, it was a hit and run, the car driver is in shit up to his neck. IMHO

You know based on the fact that he ended up in serious condition some of the change in both his account of the incident and how hurt he appeared might be chocked up to being in shock...

IT IS TIME THAT THE STATE OF OREGON EXAMINE BIKE RIDERS AND THEIR BIKES. BOTH MUST BE HAVE BIKE LICENSES FOR ANY OREGON PUBLIC ROAD OF A SPEED OVER 25 M.P.H. OR OVER A GIVEN TRAFFIC VOLUME. CERTAIN EQUIPMENT MUST BE ON THESE BIKES. I SEE SO MANY BIKERS VIOLATE OREGON TRAFFIC LAWS AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN REQUIRED TO CARRY I.D.. OREGON MUST DO SOMETHING SINCE PORTLAND IS SUCH A PRO-BIKE CULTURE P.S. THESE BIKE SIGNS AND STRIPPING ARE NOT CHEAP AND BIKERS MUST PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE. THE LAW MUST BE ENFORCED ON BIKERS JUST AS MUCH AS ON CARS.

PHL fuck off wanker/troll

"stripping" is NEVER cheap. so many dollah billz ya'll!