# Two-wheeled vehicles - 2, Dubya - 0 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580 "2004-05-22T22:53:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/1 "2004-05-22T22:53:14Z")
[Bush falls off bike](http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/22/bush.fall/index.html) First the Segway incident and now a bike. Stick to walking, Dubya! ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/2 "2004-05-23T02:49:51Z")
Damn terrorist bicycles! Time to “liberate” Schwinntonia. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/3 "2004-05-23T03:18:32Z")
How the $#@% is this news?? The Segway was funny only because it’s selling point is that you can’t fall off it, but who hasn’t fallen off a bike? Breaking news: The President Stubbs His Toe! Breaking news: The President Swallows Water the Wrong Way and Has a Coughing Fit! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/4 "2004-05-23T03:33:22Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > How the $#@% is this news?? The Segway was funny only because it’s selling point is that you can’t fall off it, but who hasn’t fallen off a bike? > > Breaking news: The President Stubbs His Toe! > Breaking news: The President Swallows Water the Wrong Way and Has a Coughing Fit! The President eats a pretzel and nearly chokes to death! ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/5 "2004-05-23T03:37:18Z")
I think this, the segway and the pretzel incident are all cover stories. I think Cheney beats him and he’s in denial. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/6 "2004-05-23T04:35:09Z")
> [@](#): > > Bush, who was accompanied on his bike ride by his doctor… Geez, I’ll bet they made him wear a big dorky helmet, too. It must be no fun at all to be president. Seriously though, were any other presidents banged up this much about the head and shoulders in their first term? Apart from Ford, I mean. Even Reagan was a fairly active old dude, but he just fell off a horse that _once_, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/7 "2004-05-23T04:47:19Z")
Didn’t Kerry take a header off a bike a few weeks back? Hmmm…shouldn’t the Conspiracyometer be flashing red right about now? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/8 "2004-05-23T04:49:43Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Seriously though, were any other presidents banged up this much about the head and shoulders in their first term? Apart from Ford, I mean. As I recall, McKinley and Lincoln got a couple of shots. Yeah, I didn’t bother to look up the correct spelling of the former. So sue me. I ain’t got nothin’ you want anyway. * * * “Dinner theater? Don’t be crazy, Mary. Let’s take in a play.” ----- A. Lincoln ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/9 "2004-05-23T06:34:27Z")
According to Drudge, John Kerry’s “off-the-record” but on-camera response was, “Did the training wheels fall off?” Beautiful. I was going to vote for Kerry anyway, but after that line, I’m going to feel a lot better about it. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/10 "2004-05-23T07:16:17Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Didn’t Kerry take a header off a bike a few weeks back? It was snow skis, unless there was a seperate incident I didn’t hear about. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/11 "2004-05-23T13:03:33Z")
[ot] > [@](#): > > Jenna’s twin sister, Barbara, graduates Monday from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, with a degree in humanities. WTF kind of BS degree is “humanities”?!?!?! [/ot] ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/12 "2004-05-23T13:18:36Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > [ot] > WTF kind of BS degree is “humanities”?!?!?! [/ot] I think it’s English… literature and that sort of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/13 "2004-05-23T13:40:35Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > It was snow skis, unless there was a seperate incident I didn’t hear about. Yup, looks like there _was_ a [seperate incident](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20040523/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_injured). > [@Yahoo News](#): > > Earlier this month, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry took a spill from his bicycle while riding with Secret Service agents through Concord, Mass., about 18 miles north of Boston. Kerry fell when his bike hit a patch of sand. He was not injured. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/14 "2004-05-23T15:56:10Z")
I haven’t fallen off a bike since I was 10. What with all of these clumsy politicians? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/15 "2004-05-23T17:57:19Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I haven’t fallen off a bike since I was 10. > > What with all of these clumsy politicians? They can’t multi-task. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/16 "2004-05-23T18:11:06Z")
CNN yesterday was reporting that he was wearing a mouth guard. A Mouth guard!?! If they’re making him wear a mouth guard, he shouldn’t be biking! It’s like they knew he couldn’t be trusted on two wheels! > [@](#): > > Tubb treated the president at the scene. Bush was wearing a helmet and a [mouth guard](http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/22/bush.fall/index.html) when he fell, Duffy said. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/17 "2004-05-23T19:42:39Z")
When the debates start, stiff railing will be needed on the stage. As often as Bush and Kerry fall from things, this could be dangerous. Maybe if Nader has a series of mishaps, then is allowed to join the debates (yeah right), the trio could be affectionately referred to as Larry, Curly, and Moe. > [@NurseCarmen](#): > > CNN yesterday was reporting that he was wearing a mouth guard. A Mouth guard!?! If they’re making him wear a mouth guard, he shouldn’t be biking! It’s like they knew he couldn’t be trusted on two wheels! I heard he was on a ride that was close to twenty miles over very rough terrain. Falls are very possible in this situation, and a mouth guard is as good as a helmet. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/18 "2004-05-23T19:51:06Z")
Bush has a long way to go before he approaches the clumsiness of Gerald Ford, a man who, as Bob Hope put it, played a great game of golf for a guy wearing skis. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/19 "2004-05-23T21:00:23Z")
To be fair, I’m sure Bush has sucessfully ridden two wheeled vehicles dozens of times in the last four years. So it should be “Two wheeled vehicles 2, Bush 24.” Which still isn’t a good record. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580/20 "2004-05-23T21:13:46Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > To be fair, I’m sure Bush has sucessfully ridden two wheeled vehicles dozens of times in the last four years. > > So it should be “Two wheeled vehicles 2, Bush 24.” Which still isn’t a good record. True, but “Bush Has Pleasant Bike Ride” isn’t as interesting. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-wheeled-vehicles-2-dubya-0/246580.md?page=2)