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To: Tennessee Conservative

Would you care to explain the bicyclist behavior in these videos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oVaWQ09nRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuQByrRpbh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqJrA_PisSI


21 posted on 05/21/2015 4:29:38 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Like I said, there are a lot of cyclists that do not observe the laws of the road. They should be ticketed the same as if they were driving a car or riding a motorcycle. I don’t excuse them at all.

I ride rural roads with nothing but stop signs but yes, I stop at all stop signs, give handle signals, and use a headlight and taillight just like a when I’m driving a motorized vehicle. We are not all law breakers. IMO, most of the obnoxious jerks on bicycles ride in the city and commute to work and back. That has been my experience anyway.


31 posted on 05/21/2015 5:55:16 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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I might also mention that in some cities and towns, the turn lanes have under-road sensors. Bicycles aren’t heavy enough to trigger the sensor so an exception has been made to the law to allow a bicyclists to proceed through the light if it is red. Some laws specify that the cyclist must wait through one rotation of the light without getting the green, some say they must wait a certain length of time, and some allow them to treat a turn lane light like a stop sign. They are required to stop and look both ways before going through the light. In video #1 the cyclist did stop before finally going though the light. I can’t say what the law in that city is so I can’t say if he/she broke the law or not. Considering how well he/she was doing up until then I would consider that he/she made a legal turn.


36 posted on 05/21/2015 7:18:03 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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