It irks me too. With my anxiety, I envision them hitting a rock and crashing, then my car squashing them. I pass as quickly and safely as possible. |
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Does this piss anyone else off but me?? I mean really. It's one thing when they ride as close to the curb as possible. Assuming there is no other traffic on the road, you can easily just go around them. But, around here, they like to ride in pairs, taking up an entire lane and just expecting everyone else to go around them, even when the other lane (if there are two) is taken, or when there is only one lane and you have oncoming traffic headed your way. Even when they are just cruising along at a leisurely pace. They might as well just be walking down the fuckin street. What's the deal with this, and does this irk anyone else but me?? |
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It irks me too. With my anxiety, I envision them hitting a rock and crashing, then my car squashing them. I pass as quickly and safely as possible. |
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Yeah, it annoys the crap out of me when I'm driving, but I do think they're perfectly entitled to do it. Though a bit more consideration might be on it's place. |
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April Ryan is my friend,
Every sorrow she can mend.
When i visit her dark realm,
Does it simply overwhelm.
Yeah, I agree that they are entitled to (kinda), but it's just so annoying. Like I said, it's like walking down the middle of the street, at your own pace, and forcing the traffic to go around you. I lived my entire young life riding my bike on the sidewalk, just like everyone else - or actually maneuvering myself around traffic, instead of the other way around. But, now, when I'm the one driving, it's like all the cyclists are practically giving me the finger and saying "HA! DRIVE AROUND ME BITCH!" Lol. |
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I ride on the sidewalk lol, I'm always afraid of getting smoked by a car. |
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Another very important thing I forgot to mention: When this happened today, I didn't even think about what area I was in. In the past few years, the state had just spent however many millions of dollars to build this 20-something mile biking/walking trail that crosses through about 4 cities. It's about 10ft wide, freshly paved, and bicycle-friendly. These guys that I had to make my way around - because they were riding in the street - were riding parallel to this nice, new bike path that was right next to them. It's not like riding on a old, broken sidewalk - which I can somewhat understand, but this thing is brand new! I mean it is literally like 4 feet from the road! |
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You should have passed them by driving over the bike path in your truck. On a more serious note...that law change where bicycles had to share the road with cars sucks. |
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Man I was thinking of starting the same thread... |
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White girl, you can ask her what the dick be like
And monster madness doing drive-bys on a fuckin fixie bike
Fuck it moron, snortin oxycontin, wearin cotton,
Oxymoron like buff faggots playin sissy dykes
Also, as a cyclist your guys road rage only makes me enjoy riding on roads even more. |
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White girl, you can ask her what the dick be like
And monster madness doing drive-bys on a fuckin fixie bike
Fuck it moron, snortin oxycontin, wearin cotton,
Oxymoron like buff faggots playin sissy dykes
Yes, they're always wearing sports gear with no bags or anything. Even if they were commuting, it wouldn't be a bright idea. Doesn't make it any less dangerous if they're going to work or not. |
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Yeah man, those 10-15 seconds you might end up spending behind a cyclist just piss me off, there's literally nothing more annoying. |
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No, my problem here is the hate towards cyclists. Sure, some cyclists can be annoying, I occasionally have to drive around pairs of cyclists who insist on occupying an entire lane, but the majority of cyclists are not constantly trying to fuck with you by not driving a motorized vehicle at high speeds. Of course, I'm from Denmark, and we have seperate lanes dedicated to cyclists, but even then we don't have this everywhere, which means you'll have to sit behind a cyclist occasionally, waiting for an opportunity to get around them, but that was the point of my previous post. You will often not spend much longer than a few seconds behind these people. |
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It's illegal to ride on paths in Australia. |
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It is very interesting that people's homicidal tendencies bubble to the surface when they are inconvenienced for a moment. There is alot of hate towards cyclists in America especially among rednecks for the reasons mentioned in the op among others. I have been riding my bike to work/school/friends houses for years and have experienced plenty of hate and have gotten hit by a car twice (first time was hit and run, the second time was a freak accident) and get cursed at daily but riding bicycles on the sidewalk is illegal where I live so what can I do? Also I dont ride on the roads to piss people off, I do it because I have to get to my fucking job on time. |
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I hate when I'm riding down the middle lane on my tricycle, and someone in a car cuts me off. |
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It's not illegal to ride on the sidewalk, here. And if the state spent $X to build a ridiculously fancy bike trail specifically for you, and you still chose to ride your bike in traffic, I'd consider you much more a douchebag than if you were just on your way to work, on a road with either no sidewalks or illegal ones. Not quite the same scenario. |
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It's not very pleasant to ride on the sidewalk when you're going 20-40 km/h on a bicycle without suspension. Read my other post. |
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Trains man, they never should have build roads and cars in the first place. If you design it right you can make a massive system of mini-trains that stop on every corner . |
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Oh, well in that case the bicyclists you're encountering are just idiots. If they chose to ride on the road when there is an actually lane bikes, they are just being douchebags. |
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I'm a cyclist. |
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