Posted on 09/04/2018 6:22:02 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I despise your wish list:
Yearly safety inspection just like a car?
Pass a signs and rules test like a moped, scooter or small motorcycle?
Required to have a picture ID, just like a driver?
But I might have to join you in the anti-cycling-advocate advocacy that will likely bring it to pass.
Keep your hands off my last bastion of freedom! Keep up the good cycling behavior and get rid of that list.
This was l8kely a sanctioned race on a closed course.
About 10 years ago, my company was working on the repair of a bridge. Part of the deck had to be removed and repaired. Part of it was over a bike lane. The City demanded that we keep the bike lane open except when we working above it (and provide a marked detour when closed). We put some barricades across the lane when we started breaking out the deck over the bike lane.
Then a bicyclist went right around the barricades and zipped under the bridge as the stuff was falling. Then a second one did it. So we put out a bunch of other barricades all the way down to the creek. It wasn’t 10 minutes before we got a call from the City to complain that they were receiving complaints frombicyclists. I told them to come to the project and watch the bikers ignore safety. PS: The City also said that they received complaints of us getting “dust” on the bicyclists.
Setting aside the gratuitous “white-bros” snark, I have no problem with cyclists who try to be as considerate to others as they want others to be to them.
But I have no use for the “I’m better than you because I ride a bike” types decked out in tight shorts and fancy helmets. In particular, in my morning commute, I typically drive a stretch along a normally-busy two-lane road, with a curb-protected exclusive bike lane that effectively removes any possibility of a passing lane. And most mornings I’ll encounter a pack of a dozen or so of these clowns, riding side-by-side on the traffic lane, ignoring the bike lane altogether. Granted it’s 5:30 am or so, and the traffic is light, but they still impede traffic flow, so far as I can tell just because they can.
I know although I’ve seen scenes damn close to that on weekends on rural roads.
Pretty much same for me as a bicyclist. Most confusion for me occurs when a multi-use 'trail' crosses a city street with stop signs for all. If I wait for the cars that are stopped, they wave me through with irritation as they are already stopped. Courtesy on both sides generally is met but watch out for the jacked-up pickups, there is a lot of ego there.
This was l8kely a sanctioned race on a closed course.
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That was most likely a photo from the Tour de France. However
there are bike races in the US that draw a lot of participants.
https://www.usacycling.org/find-event/national-calendars
Uh, I doubt that. If this was a mass-start stage at the TdF, there would have been in the neighborhood of 180 - 200 riders in that peloton. It’s unlikely any casual group ride would draw that many participants.
If it was an organized event, that’s a different story. But then there should be corner marshals and other traffic controls in place.
Melas has left the building
I know. I was registered for a ride that had at least 3,000 riders. Unfortunately, it was canceled at the last minute due to weather.
But look at RAGBRAI. Not a race but draws thousands. The Amgen Tour usually attracts a peloton similar to the TdF. And there are others.
Appalachians up to Allegheny mtns.... no bike lanes. But plenty ad infinitum cyclists who foolishly ride side by side in a lane- aligned with normal auto traffic.
come over a hill and “there they are” 5 across in the lane. Idiotic- and they claim they have ROW— they don’t. Several car/cycle accidents and the cyclists did not do well.
Here’s a tip for these morons— the road is NOT yours (in fact unless you drove in a car to get to your “trip”, you have paid zero in matching road taxes). Travel in single lanes- with last in line with a prominent BRIGHT Red strobe flasher- and each of you wear reflective gear— DOT greenbrite. cyclists at a minimum are a hazard to automobile driving. Period.
Did the author assume race and gender? Hmmm....Is that allowed?
Apparently after reading the headline, it appears that Cuozzo is a self hating white racist.
Imagine a similar headline about coddling blacks and crime.
I’ve been a pretty big cyclist all my life, but am generally opposed to bike Lanes. For little kids sidewalks are generally better. For the rest of us, better to learn how to safely navigate around car traffic than to have a false sense of security derived from white paint on the road.
They’re arrogant and hostile, for the most part.
“jacked-up pickups, there is a lot of ego there.”
Those guys are less problematic than the mini-van with a “Save the Earth” bumper sticker.
God save me from the liberal soccer mom on her way to Whole Foods for an organic smoothie
The things you despise are things that would give a bicyclist rights on the road.
It would also mean that the drunken illegal alien riding his Huffy with a bent frame and poorly functioning brakes could be stopped legally without being able to whine about profiling.
If you had an actual license to ride a bicycle on the street then you have more legal standing in an accident.
What is wrong with asking cyclist to demonstrate they can read street signs and know traffic laws and regulations?
Paved shoulders or wider outside lanes on roads are a safety issue for drivers and something that most would support.
BTW
Rivendell Sam Hillborne Touring bike (2010) - NOS Suntour XC Pro components. My grocery store bike with 40mm wide slicks
Soma San Marco (2012) - Campagnolo Veloce Flatbar 10 Speed. A flatbar rocket
Battaglin ARN Racing (1995)Triathlon Frame made from Columbus SLX Steel originally equipped with Mavic components but refitted with Campagnolo Centaur 10 Speed
Not one spec of carbon fiber plastic on any of them
Nice bikes! I had a Bridgestone MB-3 for years back when Grant Peterson was running the show. I found out he started Rivendell and wrote him to thank him for my 20 years of beloved MB-3. I haven’t been able to buy one of his bikes, but I hear they’re awesome.
Bike lanes are lame. In DC the bike lobby has pushed for both bike lanes and for bikes to have road rights. Pick one.
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