Home » News Home » News  Kirby: No winner in bike vs. bumper
debate  Published July 21, 2013 1:01 am   A cyclist almost
clipped me Thursday. If that was you going south on a green
mountain bike near The Gateway in downtown Salt Lake City around
10 a.m., I'm the guy who yelled that stuff about your actual
birth mother.  I meant it, too. You didn't even look when you
cut that corner and nearly got me. And it's not like I'm
invisible. Hell, I'm larger than you and your bike together.  On
the other hand, the score between me and bicyclists isn't
anywhere close to being even. In 44 years of driving, I've
nearly hit more of you than you ever have of me.  While I've
never hit a bicyclist with my vehicle, one of them hit me. Years
ago a rider came off the sidewalk and — SMACK! — straight into
the side of my car.  I was only traveling about 15 mph at the
time, but it was terrifying. I thought I'd killed him. So did
the rider's parents, who screamed and watched their 6-year-old
son T-bone a police car with his birthday