Lighten up, Francis.
Most of them are probably “Critical Mass-holes”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Mass_(cycling)
They are Marxists on Bikes
They are taking over Colorado also. They don’t own the road but they are better than car drivers and arrogantly steal our road rights.
The rest are liberals.
I believe the law is virtually the same for cyclists as far as rules of the road goes. Unfortunately, most don’t follow them and the cops don’t ticket them.
Don’t hit one though. That will definitely be your fault.
When I see them riding on the road in their bright spandex, with no backback or saddlebags, I see that they are PLAYING IN THE STREETS, not commuting to work. Congesting traffic, not obeying traffic laws, and becoming a menace to other drivers.
I don’t slow down for dead raccoons or ...bicyclists.
My brother is a road biker...what an @sshole.
;-)
But we are both conservatives.
There is a 50 MPH road that goes to my place of work.
That employer employs 5K.
When do the idiots in spandex ride that road 3 abreast?
That’s right. When a few thousand people leave work.
All the urban cops know that any attempt to apply the law to them will result in the stagnation of advancement, or outright termination.
The ones in floriduh are stupid as well...ride on narrow 2 lane roads with no shoulder...@$$ holes!
That’s what brush guards are for.
I was an avid bicyclist in Seattle. I also drove a lot and rode a motorcycle. On my bike and motorcycle my attitude was always: Assume you are invisible.
It saved my butt many times on both two wheelers. I also was actually hit by cars three times. I never went down but all three cars were severely dented and scratched up by my body and my bike (one bright red Porsche turned into me and to stay up I forced my pedal up to rip its way through his front wheel well.
Some bike riders ride like a$$es. Some drivers drive like a$$es. I had a flat bed truck come within four inches of my handlebars as he passed me IN A BIKE LANE just ‘cause he didn’t like cyclists. Another on in Kent valley, as part of a long line of stopped cars for a light, saw me coming up in the bike lane and turned his wheel hard right and pushed it against the curb. It must have ticked him off when I simply hopped onto the sidewalk as I approached his tire and hopped back down when in front of him.
People don’t like it when others have the ability to get through traffic in a way they can’t. But yes, there is a bit of “mob mentality” with some groups of riders. That said, I blow through stop signs all the time on my bike, but not in my car. I’m a “spirit of the law” sort of guy. I’ll stop if there are cars on the cross street.
Most bicyclists around here are pretty careful and stay close in their lane when a car is approaching from the rear. Simple matter of courtesy and survival instinct. Even when they don’t have their own lane, and so long as there’s no oncoming traffic, they don’t weave around and one can pass them as you would another car. So my guess is yes, it’s probably a California thing.
I told a group of my buddies a while ago that if they ever saw me in spandex shorts and a racing jersey to just draw down and shoot me where I was because I know I couldn’t bear to live like that.
But the worst are the ones for whom a tax payer funded bike lane just isn't enough room.
Bicyclists are arrogant about the fact they expect motorists to treat them just like a car, yet they are the first ones to run stop signs and even stop lights because suddenly they believe they’re immune from the laws which people in cars must abide by. This double standard is angering.. and they wonder why people in cars have no respect for them!