Fu*king Cyclists

PB · 07-25-2020, 10:47 PM

Yah; recumbent's take balls, and hyper-balance. I'm at the trike point in my life for sure, but at least it would be a tadpole design.

**gravitylover** · 07-26-2020, 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

^^^
Glad you’re ok and it worked out well but I get nervous driving a low profile sports car in a sea of bloated crossovers, brodozers and mall-crawling G-Wagens and Range Rovers. I don’t know how anyone has the stones to ride in something even lower like a recumbent around traffic.

Yeah I get weirded out sometimes too when I don't feel like they see me, at least on a bike or motorcycle your head is usually high enough to be seen (if they're paying that much attention) compared to the sports car they look over.

**Beaver** · 07-26-2020, 04:06 PM

My 'bent is not an ideal city bike but I've only got about a block that I have to share with cars. I've only ever been hit by a car while riding a diamond frame, I bought the 'bent after that because I couldn't lean on my hand for a while.

**Parvo** · 07-27-2020, 03:42 PM

Looks like the makers of my new bike rack have the same attitude towards recumbent bikes that I do.
Not ok!

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**old goat** · 07-27-2020, 09:43 PM

Your bike rack is made by 12 year olds, or just the label?

**Parvo** · 07-28-2020, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by old goat

Your bike rack is made by 12 year olds, or just the label?

12 year old Swedes.

**Rideski** · 07-31-2020, 09:04 PM

Indiana mom hanging out with 2 year old son.
Passes out drunk.
Kid wanders outside of house, into car, dies in heat.
Mom gets 30 years in prison.

Dump truck driver mows down a mom who was bicycling blocks from home.
Community service.

**frorider** · 12-10-2020, 05:32 PM

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/...truck-2212306/

Ugh. At least 5 cyclists killed by a commercial box truck on open hiway.

**::: :::** · 12-10-2020, 05:38 PM

god, that's awful

**dan_pdx** · 12-10-2020, 06:54 PM

They had an escort vehicle and even that wasn't enough for this jackass to see and avoid them. Who wants to bet the driver was on their phone?

**Art Shirk** · 05-08-2021, 12:45 PM

Just passed these jackwagons holding up a mile of traffic.

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**Soups** · 05-08-2021, 12:49 PM

What do those signs say?

**old goat** · 05-08-2021, 05:37 PM

California legislature is voting on allowing Idaho stops.

**powdrhound** · 05-08-2021, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by Soups

What do those signs say?

I think that they say Protect Our Children.
Q-anon bikers.

**Art Shirk** · 05-08-2021, 06:18 PM

I think the one in front says “I purposely moved to a completely homogenized island full of white hippies just like me but I still need to pretend like there are minds to be changed in order to demonstrate my commitment to a cause that I best serve by causing a traffic jam on a Saturday.”

The guy in the back has a “Dicks out for Harambi” sign. That guy is cool.

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**stealurface831** · 05-08-2021, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Art Shirk

The guy in the back has a “Dicks out for Harambi” sign. That guy is cool.

that guy fucks

**dan_pdx** · 07-12-2021, 04:27 PM

Did we all miss this article, or did I just miss the discussion about it?

Cyclist packs heat, shoots road raging driver
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...t-16295676.php

**JimmyCarter** · 07-12-2021, 04:37 PM

Originally Posted by dan_pdx

Did we all miss this article, or did I just miss the discussion about it?

Cyclist packs heat, shoots road raging driver
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...t-16295676.php

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“A bicyclist feared for his life this weekend and shot a driver who had just hit another cyclist.
Getty Images”

**dan_pdx** · 07-12-2021, 04:55 PM

yeah, I noticed that - couldn't decide if they think it's a joke or their photo editor is just at the end of his rope.

Also had this truly amazing YouTube video in the middle of the article. Definitely the guy I want with me when I go on road rides in Texas

**Rideski** · 07-22-2021, 05:46 PM

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**californiagrown** · 07-22-2021, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Rideski

People think im crazy for jumping off cliffs into snow, and skiing fast. Say they'd never have the balls to ride that double black tech trail or race (poorly) CAT 2 in the local DH race like me. But, they think nothing of riding their bike into work, or going for a weekend 50mile ride in spandex on some scenic rural roads.

Road biking is an extreme sport. And the scariest part is the life changing crashes are rarely cyclist pilot error... its someone else in a 4000lb hunk of metal making the error. thats the nature of the sport though. Its voluntarily recreating in extremely close proximity to fast hunks of metal, while being 10% the visual size of other vehicles on the road, and having exactly zero functional protection should one of those hunks of metal hit you.

**Rideski** · 07-22-2021, 10:32 PM

Yeah. I’m an subdued earth tone kind of guy, but I decided to buy some bright lime green shirts for the brief bike commuting I do. Started wearing a helmet again too. Just residential roads, but still.