Fu*king Cyclists

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Not true.

On a single file group, I'll do what it takes to give them 4+ feet.

Ride abreast and I won't.

I'm tightening up on my reciprocity.

Yes, I ride. old goat and plugboots are right.

You're someone making choices about whether others are dong things "correctly," which shows that you think way more than most motorists.

Stereotyping to save time:

I'm late to work/pick up kids
Hop in Prius/F150/BMW
Cyclist in right side of lane on front of me
Cars coming other way
Can't pass cyclist yet
Don't want to wait 4 seconds to pass
Honk at cyclist in frustration
Honk/Buzz as driving by and flip off

Happens all the time. The impatient motorist doesn't know you've been stopping, waving and smiling for the last 35 miles of your ride.

[buttahflake]

I swear to god, since I've been running, blinky lights, red in the back, white in front. Things have gotten way more kind on the road. People see you and give you room, and when it's tight, that wait more. It works. Makes you look more like a vehicle and less like a toy. Try it.

[PB]

Holy Shit
BF and are are on the same page

Granted, it only works at night, but if you light yourself up like an LED carnival people give you no shit ..... unless you're playing techno dance music from the battery powered speakers on your bike trailer.

[sb]

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[old goat]

Daytime lights on a bike are probably a good idea. (I don't have them.) If I'm in the bike lane and a car is parked in it, I look over my shoulder, hand signal for a left turn if it's safe to pull out, and pull well out into the car lane just long enough to pass the parked car.
It does make a difference if you have to cross the double yellow to pass one or two abreast. On most roads if you're just over the yellow oncoming cars will be able to scrape by, although I would wait until I know I can pass without oncoming cars trying to scrape by.

[mtngirl79]

The impatient motorist doesn't know you've been stopping, waving and smiling for the last 35 miles of your ride.

In Washington state if you are holding up more than 5 vehicles you must pull over and let them pass as soon as it is safe to do so.

If all cyclists followed tbis law cars would be way less grumpy about them.

[jono]

In Washington state if you are holding up more than 5 vehicles you must pull over and let them pass as soon as it is safe to do so.

If all cyclists followed tbis law cars would be way less grumpy about them.

Five cars. How often do you see five cars behind a cyclist? I'm trying too remember a single time I've seen that that didn't involve a line of cars (slowed up by the lead car) reaching a cyclist already in a group.

[buttahflake]

I've never seen five cars stacked up like that. I was in Seattle once, the drivers there are perhaps the worst in the country. So many kooks. Daytime Running Lights for the bike, make all the difference. Get some!

[Benny Profane]

Yeah, I have to say, once I got a nice bright rear blinking light a few seasons ago, I'm treated better by drivers.

[mtngirl79]

Five cars. How often do you see five cars behind a cyclist? I'm trying too remember a single time I've seen that that didn't involve a line of cars (slowed up by the lead car) reaching a cyclist already in a group.

Constantly on curvy county roads with no shoulder. Its almost never an issue in town with actual commuters, but spandexers recreating hold up huge lines all the time.

[doebedoe]

Other cars going up twisty roads hold up cars all the time. We don't bash them with our cars.

[ex-powderbroker]

I really hate blinking lights, especially on the bike path. Just say no!

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/bic...nking-problems

[mecc69]

I really hate blinking lights, especially on the bike path. Just say no!

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/bic...nking-problems

I'm not sure if it's the tech or my eyes getting worse at night, but the new bike lights are extremely irritating. Some are almost equivalent to high beams on a car. Even the non-blinking ones are annoying as shit.

[buttahflake]

So much suck in this thread. Fucking eat my dick.
Spandexers? Really, I mean just because you look like a plump sausage in tight riding gear, does not mean you can shit on the rest of the us.
Take laps

[Skistack]

I'm not sure if it's the tech or my eyes getting worse at night, but the new bike lights are extremely irritating. Some are almost equivalent to high beams on a car. Even the non-blinking ones are annoying as shit.

LED technology has made lights brighter and affordable. Before a taillight put out maybe 10-20 lumen, visible at night but not really noticeable during the day. I just bought one and the choices were 50, 100 or 150 lumen.

[jackstraw]

I'm not sure if it's the tech or my eyes getting worse at night, but the new bike lights are extremely irritating. Some are almost equivalent to high beams on a car. Even the non-blinking ones are annoying as shit.

The LED tech has come so far that people don't realize how powerful and blinding they can be. Even flashlights now are brutal. Last fall a woman was walking on the side of the road and pointed her LED flashlight at my windshield to let me know she was there. I almost ran her the fuck over because I was so blinded...dumb biatch

[Timberridge]

I strap laser pointers all over my bike and ride by airports.

[mecc69]

Other cars going up twisty roads hold up cars all the time. We don't bash them with our cars.

Uh, youtube is full of examples of road raging drivers crashing into other cars and shooting at each other because of some perceived slight.

As a biker, runner, pedestrian, etc you have a high likelyhood of ending up dead or injured for life when interacting with these people. Act defensively.

[mecc69]

The LED tech has come so far that people don't realize how powerful and blinding they can be. Even flashlights now are brutal. Last fall a woman was walking on the side of the road and pointed her LED flashlight at my windshield to let me know she was there. I almost ran her the fuck over because I was so blinded...dumb biatch

Heh, I do this at a particular lighted, marked intersection near me when running. Usually only to the third car that fails to stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

[BmillsSkier]

I strap laser pointers all over my bike and ride by airports.

Take a lap through the self checkout kiosks at your grocery store at the end of your ride. All your lasers would set off the machines in a frenzy like you just won the Tour.

[Benny Profane]

I really hate blinking lights, especially on the bike path. Just say no!

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/bic...nking-problems

Oh, yeah, when I'm with people or on a path (why, on a path?) I turn it down or off. I admit, staring at that thing from six feet away has to be irritating.

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[PB]

Definitely annoying/infuriating dealing with high powered white LED bike lights - if they're strobing it's all I can do to resist actively running them over, repeatedly, strobing them with my wheels. Lower intensity, tinted, non-strobing LEDs are fine -actually long frequency tinted strobers are OK too.

[buttahflake]

Definitely annoying/infuriating dealing with high powered white LED bike lights - if they're strobing it's all I can do to resist actively running them over, repeatedly, strobing them with my wheels. Lower intensity, tinted, non-strobing LEDs are fine -actually long frequency tinted strobers are OK too.

So they're that bothersome from the opposite lane? That you want to cross the lane to mash me with your car?
Punch yerself in the dick. You fucking pole smoker.

[Timberridge]

I like to ride by epileptics with the strobe set to max frequency and watch them have seizures.

[goldengatestinx]

Definitely annoying/infuriating dealing with high powered white LED bike lights - if they're strobing it's all I can do to resist actively running them over, repeatedly, strobing them with my wheels. Lower intensity, tinted, non-strobing LEDs are fine -actually long frequency tinted strobers are OK too.

Strobing lights have been shown to cause seizures...medically proven. And can claim it was perpetrated on purpose. Win-win, eh?