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 post them all
if time permits.
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
Chapter 52) Vegas, LA, and back to Indiana
Chapter 53) The essential points of law
Chapter 54) The Pallet Theory
Chapter 55) Another police tailgater
Chapter 56) Lumbering onward
Chapter 57) Back to California
Chapter 58) Self-employment, school, another arrest
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
61 123 86 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?
Chapter 61-63 My mental state
Chapter 64-65 childhood
Chapter 74 My friend Rick
Chapter 75 Chad Landry
Index of chapters
Punks and drunks
Chapter-66-at-the-lumber-yard.html
The following chapters are under construction:
Renumber the chapters
49 page 92 after Chicago/ the bike trip from Tampa to New Orleans
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
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
53
104 The Pallet Theory / countering the
threat of violence … pallet theory is essential common language for
making a legal case … tell it that way
54
105 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
55 107 Lumbering onward … shorten shorten
56 112 A changed man emerges … why…tell why … job failure
57 113 self-employment, school, another arrest, and a hard depression
58 114 combine with 61
59
119 school interviews, fatigue and
arthritis … move up a chapter
60 121 84 First years in Texas and arthritis hammers my body
61 123 86 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?
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
Very little is written of the chapters below
66
knee operation/ riding again
67 activism anew
68
painting business
69
working with the guys / the stop on highway 90 (combine w/ 73)
70
lumber yard society goes awry
71
driving into the cement at the lumber yard
72 chad landry … defender of the culture / drunk driver
73 call from the Houston detective
74 my friend rick
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
80 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
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
88 the judge and his wife talking about me at the steak house
89 the internet informer
We gonna tell yer wife
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
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