Fu*king Cyclists

[capulin overdrive]

I'm waiting for STFU to appear in an article like this
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/liv...e98068002.html

Palms out bird and everything.

LOL, we may have to take away his NYC card and get him a Native bumper sticker!


Bitch in the article may have been batshit, but the bikers weren't behaving either. They had a bike lane, yet were riding 2 a breast. So bitch may have at least had reason to be pissed.

[jono]

Were they even outside the lane though? Not that it matters much; if she actually put her car within arms reach of a bicycle, let alone on purpose, she's lucky all they did was take a picture and kick her off the internet. She wouldn't pass 2 feet from a dump truck.

[BCMtnHound]

Around here, it's backroads with speed limits ranging from 60 to 80kph and gravel shoulders, or a main interprovincial highway where most traffic is averaging 110kph that does have a decent paved shoulder. One has local kids and rush hour 3-wobbly-pop-after-work good ol' boys, the other has heavy transport and distracted tourist.
Fuck it, I stick to the dirt trails and if forced to run the gauntlet, I try and maximize the horses and ATV trails paralleling the backroads/Hwy. Bad enough when I get hit when encased in a steel cage, let alone on a bike. Modern transport coupled with human stupidity/incompetence simply makes the argument for bikes vs vehicles ROW moot.

[stfu&gbtw]

I lump the asshole cyclists in with all the other asshole vehicle operators in this state who collectively manage to create complete fucking gridlock with a third of the people it takes to do so elsewhere. Like littering, riding your bike like as asshole, driving 55mph in the passing lane, refusing to let cars merge on the highway, tailgating, accelerating to prevent people from using passing lanes, etc... All of them should carry a first offence penalty of an aluminum bat to the face. People complain about how many people there are in CO, and how little infrastructure we have... How about we stop wasting our limited resources on acting like insecure wanna be alpha local pricks?

[::: :::]

The world would be a better place if we were all fucking cyclists. I'm going to go fuck one now.

[sb]

Making moar little fkn cycle bikers?


NTTAWWT

[farmguy]

Just like skiing or driving, the over taking or passing driver/rider/skier has the reasonability to only pass when safe to do so, not only safe for you but safe for the person you are passing. A cyclist might be taking up a lane as there is a danger to him than that is a non issue to a car. It is common courtesy to pull over to shoulder to allow a car to pass, but it is not a law. Slow down and enjoy your day.

[hutash]

They are enjoying their day, the enjoy buzzing cyclists, honking their horn when they are right next to you, etc. It makes their day, mostly because their day is so shallow and uneventful. They might like life a little better if they got out of their cars and went for a walk or ride.

[narc]

For scenery:
Amsterdam<<Hamburg<<<<<<<<<<<Copenhagen

Though Amsterdam may have more cobblestones than either

Just wait until you get a thin roadie bike tyre in a tram rail track...

[abraham]

Just wait until you get a thin roadie bike tyre in a tram rail track...

I've been walking on this trip

[BmillsSkier]

I think we need to focus on rollerbladers and roller skiers. Problems is, a thread like that would have no legs. Bravo BMills.

I had absolute faith in the maggots that this thing was going 10-plus pages when I started it. I'll work rollerblades into my next magnum opus. Promise. It'll be sick. Vegan rollerbladers vs paleo roller skiers.

I'm waiting for STFU to appear in an article like this
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/liv...e98068002.html

Palms out bird and everything.

Who the fuck flips off someone with the bird facing inward?

Rad cycle gang vigilante justice though. And I like that Merc wagon.

Wonder if she's single?

[old goat]

I have first hand knowledge of several fatalities. A friend road biking on a 2 lane in Utah made a U turn and was struck. A rider coming down a hill at speed hit a pothole. A college student riding at 2am without lights or reflectors was struck crossing a 6 lane street--I see her ghost bike every time I ride the American River Parkway. (I also know of one fatal bike vs ped--woman biking to the Donner Lake fireworks hit someone standing on the side of the road who fell and suffered a fatal head injury. The victim turned out to be too intoxicated to stand; the bike rider was arrested but charges were dismissed. She had been drinking as well but apparently not enough to be illegal.)

My impression is that the vast majority of car vs bike accidents are the result of either cars not seeing bikes--distracted, not thinking about looking for bikes, dark--or bikes moving into the path of a car--ie running a stop without looking carefully. The great majority of drivers I encounter when I'm biking stay as far away from me as they can. Anything to make bikes more visible helps. Technology to make using a cell phone, tablet, etc impossible for a driver of a moving vehicle while still allowing passengers to do it would help but I'm not holding my breath. As more and more people bike drivers will learn to watch for them. Road rage against cyclists that cause injuries or death happens, but I believe it is a tiny fraction of cyclist injuries. What will not help cyclists' cause or safety is cyclists getting aggro, deliberately obstructing traffic, deliberately pissing off drivers. I realize that self-righteous indignation is the most pleasurable of human emotions, but it rarely accomplishes anything.

[Bunion 2020]

I realize that self-righteous indignation like Mastrubation is the most pleasurable of human emotions, but it rarely accomplishes anything.

FIFY.

And I am only here to post in this thread to pad my post count.

Going for a bike ride now. On the road. On a fully rigid mountain bike I keep for just that purpose. Lots of deserted gravel roads round here.

[Sirshredalot]

What will not help cyclists' cause or safety is cyclists getting aggro, deliberately obstructing traffic, deliberately pissing off drivers.

I disagree. I think some high profile examples of negligent motorists getting dragged out of their cars and beaten half to death would help to remind people to put the fucking phone down.

[abraham]

I disagree. I think some high profile examples of negligent motorists getting dragged out of their cars and beaten half to death would help to remind people to put the fucking phone down.

Doubt it. A former friend was blamed for killing another friend's older brother while racing in high school. I don't remember if he went to jail for murder or what but he did go to jail. it didn't stop other people from doing it, even close friends of theirs. Same with another who crashed his car while drunk and tried to run across the highway to avoid getting in trouble. People were sad, but they still partied and drove home the next weekend.

I used to think that was just high school, and it might be. But people as an aggregate are closer to high school than I'd like

[hutash]

I have first hand knowledge of several fatalities. A friend road biking on a 2 lane in Utah made a U turn and was struck. A rider coming down a hill at speed hit a pothole. A college student riding at 2am without lights or reflectors was struck crossing a 6 lane street--I see her ghost bike every time I ride the American River Parkway. (I also know of one fatal bike vs ped--woman biking to the Donner Lake fireworks hit someone standing on the side of the road who fell and suffered a fatal head injury. The victim turned out to be too intoxicated to stand; the bike rider was arrested but charges were dismissed. She had been drinking as well but apparently not enough to be illegal.)

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Shit, I have to make a five mile commute on bike in half an hour. I'm going to die.

[joetron]

Who the fuck flips off someone with the bird facing inward?

Which way is inward?

Palms out is just silly.

[BmillsSkier]

I didn't realize ghost bike was a thing until I gave it a Google.

[BmillsSkier]

Which way is inward?

Palms out is just silly.

Palms out makes the bird inward facing the bird thrower.

Goofy shit.

[::: :::]

I didn't realize ghost bike was a thing until I gave it a Google.

Too many of them here...

[iceman]

There's one near my house, 14-year-old kid was driving because his dad was too drunk to drive after a day fishing on the river with the kid. Awesome parenting.

[hutash]

At least he now has a good excuse to drink.

[ex-powderbroker]

Too many of them here...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/ny...-new-york.html

15 new ones in NYC this year but it seems like there's already one on every corner. But according to some of the Stalinists in this thread it's only a statistic.

[BigDaddy]

Just this morning on my 1 mile drive to the dog park...

This is a state highway:

[buttahflake]

let's think about this for a minute BD
you drove your fucking obnoxiously large SUV, one mile, to then get out of said monstrosity to walk your dog
you're voting for Trump, amirite?