Off the seat of a bicycle

Bicycling: the sport of kings
Just like golf.
Except the other players get to swing a club at your head whenever they want.

This is my life of bicycle riding ...
of being on the street ...
the demand for freedom ...
without hassle or threat ...
only to discover that's impossible ...
and more likely to draw hate and disrespect ...
from drivers ...
and their representatives, the police
written around year 2000
each chapter a separate story
hope to write and post them all
if time permits .... if memory serves

Chapters:
Chapter 1) Off the seat of a bicycle
Chapter 2) My life defied the impulse to harm
Chapter 3) Caving
Chapter 4) Rock throwers and bayonet boy
Chapter 5) America's road rules: might makes right
Chapter 6) I consent to a search
Chapters 7-8) The charging bull
Chapter 9) The car-wash night
Chapter 10) The egg trap
Chapter 11) The bike set-up
Chapter 12) Dr Gray settles the score
Chapter 13) Happy birthday, I threw away your dog
Chapter 14) I’ll never forget the act of kindness
Chapter 15) New Jersey-creased-pants
Chapter 16-17) My family disintegrates
Chapter 18-19) The police again
Chapter 20) Bones and Dan the informer
Chapter 21) A fledgling business is born
Hitchhike-to-New-Orleans
Chapter 22) I became a-bicyclist 1973
Chapter 23) James-and-the-felony
Chapter 24) Arrest-and-sentence
Chapter 25) The-sex-try
Chapter-26) Followed by the police
Chapter 27) A rape trap
Chapter 28) Hit from behind by a drunk driver
Chapter 29) Sex: the primordial reason a cyclist would demand safety
Chapter 30) Defensive driving and the soft target
Chapter 31-32) I was done playing
Chapter 33) The police tailgater: open warfare begins
Chapter 34)   My right to be different
Chapter 35) The chicken fly
Chapter 36) Six month sentence
Chapter 37)  Fifteen policemen block the door
Chapter 38) Chicago and the long miles
Chapter 39) My best day riding a bike
40-41) Suede-Brown
42) James-S-B-calls
43 44) Bat-man-and-wife
45) Bike riding filled me
Chapter 46) Gacy
47) Dusty-gray
Where is 49? always good to have missing or misnumbered chapters, eh?
48) Explaining crows, women and uniforms
Chapter 49    My personality fails
Chapter 50) Bike trip from Tampa to New Orleans
Chapter 51) Salt Lake City
50    94    Salt lake City and reflections on life … why does the reader care?
51    99    Vegas, Tim, LA, and back to Indiana    … shorten LV part maybe
Chapter 52) Vegas, LA, and back to Indiana
Chapter 53) The essential points of law
an activist is born
Chapter 54) The Pallet Theory
pallet theory is essential common language for making a legal case …CAR DRIVERS ARE MORE CONCERNED WITH THEIR PROPERTY THAN YOUR SAFETY
Chapter 55) Another police tailgater
the pen could have become mightier than the screwdriver  This is the real point of the book right here…rewrite/condense … the story has been told in earlier chapters …focus on the legal issues
Chapter 56) Lumbering onward
Chapter 57) Back to California
Chapter 58)  Self-employment, school, another arrest

56        112   A changed man emerges … why…tell why … job failure
57        113   self-employment, school, another arrest, and a hard depression
Chapter 59) School interviews, fatigue and arthritis
Chapter 60 Final summer of school and Dan comes back to town
60        121   84 First years in Texas and arthritis hammers my body
61 Mom dies /
give more memories / potato salad, patio, etc/ why does it fit here?
62        124   1987 building a wheelchair house

63        126   the shenanigan-family fights over money
64        129   my family … what a destructive bunch
65        131  Why the continual shit from my father?
Very little is written of the chapters below
66                     knee operation/ riding again
67        activism anew
Punks and drunks
68                     painting business
        call from the Houston detective
69                     working with the guys / the stop on highway 90 (combine w/ 73)
Chapter 61-63 My mental state
why is this here
Chapter 64-65 childhood
why is this here


Index of chapters


Chapter-66-at-the-lumber-yard.html
70                     lumber yard society goes awry
71                      driving into the cement at the lumber yard
The dirty magazine

Chapter 74  My friend Rick
Confronting rick
Rick supports drunk driving and assaultive driving
The law of bulk



The following chapters are under construction:

Renumber the chapters
52    102    an activist is born … we know it already / what’s the point? Taking the lane is the point … combine with chapter 54 … why is it important? Say something new

        Condense 63-65 … 2 chapters at most… you’ve already said it … what do have to say new? … its got to read interesting…simplify, get to the point

75        rear-end accident
75a        clunkin’ a truck / the truck man violates every law
75b        I know its coming
76        the investigation starts / the listeners show up
77        followed on the bike
We gonna tell yer wife
80 or 85       I need approval from women
81         the judge makes himself visible
82        scorn / followed everywhere
82a        set-up for insurance fraud and credit card fraud (move below 83)   
83         women run at me
83a        my neighbors fill out the hate / break glass on the street/ Bdy
83b        interference with my financial mail
Credit card fraud set up
Insurance fraud set up
The guy at my truck window and later at walmart
Phone tap don't remember


The underage girl and another dirty magazine

Young girl at Kroger in Sugarland
Girl at Walmart parking lot while police were watching
Girl at krogers after I leave the paint store … phone tap
Girl at art supply … phone tap don't remember
Lady at Garden center in sugarland … same lady at krogers don't remember
Randalls downtown … 2 ladies don't remember
Misc/ 2 ladies at museum area / second girl at museum don't remember
Blmt/ girl at art show / later at art exhibit
Home depot … lady enters don't remember
Lowes sugarland / lady rushes in don't remember
Girl at Dirt yard don't remember
Girl with enlarged breasts w/ officer at Wal-mart don't remember
Girl with enlarged in line at Kroger don't remember
Woman at art show in Houston / possibly other buyer lady
Woman at Nutcracker walks by twice don't remember
Twice at Kroger in Sugarland…ladies with enlarged breasts don't remember

-give me a break … if nobody is there overtly staring at me … don’t you think I will look for the next option?

The forensic psychiatrist don't remember
The walk-by line-up
The police get protection on the road
The dirty magazine side of road

rick and I talk in front of newspaper cop
83c        cars screech tires in front of my house
83ca        computer hacked into w/ ricks help
83d        I break mentally
84        back to Indiana / another woman run at me   
85        disability and back to Texas
86        rick begins to tell people good things about me   
87        I throw off the informer and his wife
80 or 88        the judge and his wife talking about me at the steak house
89        the internet informer I don't remember this

88 Do you want to hear the funniest thing about this whole episode… no, it’s not that they beat me until I bled green … it wasn’t that they took my friends or put me out of business.. or tried to stain me for life,, or that they did it to protect their drug payoffs…nope … it was better!

The whole time the State Police were throwing trash on me for wanting lane rights of a bicycle … the legislature was passing a law that mandates that vehicles must move to an outside lane or slow considerable whenever a cop has pulled somebody off the side of the road

90 You don’t need a steaming plate of beans to see that the police protect bicycles, and if the country reverted to wild-west, bicyclists would have to arm themselves to the teeth and preemptively shoot anybody coming their way.

A treadmill of conformity that diminishes everyone who fails to produce ever-increasing profit … at least as a goat-herder, your profit…but this is wrong … all societies are competitive and push change on their menbers to better make goat cheese

the absence of an immediate human presence put me at ease since my agitated mind doesn’t focus on reading body cues.

This country is not about laws … look at it … the green river killer and unibomber get a bye ... life in prison … but every hapless bucky that shot two uncles over a pool-room squabble gets a last meal of cobbler and a gurney hoedown with doctor death … my god, in Texas the newspapers have a reporter devoted to the story every other day, and with especially interesting cases, the coverage begins days or weeks before the axe is to fall.
including the prisoner’s gallow-wisdom of final reckoning pleaded to witnesses no more placated by that killing than what caused it in the first place.

The only thing coming from them was ordinary life … there was no power extending to greatness.


Chapter 90
Our need to exercise in free America
Chapter 1999 Intimidated off the road
http://waterheatertimer.org/Bicycle/1999-events.html
Off the seat of bicycle: Conclusion
Bicyclist-activists-should-note-Texas
Knowable law



Author page