Do bicyclists have more respect from motorists now ;-)

[ka jowct]

I see far more bonehead drivers than bonehead cyclists. Lately it's been pea-brained buttheads cutting across in front of city buses 5 times the size of their vehicles to make right turns that THEY JUST COULDN'T WAIT A FEW SECONDS to make.

I did see a butthead cyclist today when I was out with the dogs. There is an area in the place where I walk them that is supposed to be off-limits to bikes: there are signs, although it's possible to miss them. The guy came past us from behind, which got the dogs upset, and I called after him (not rudely), "You're not supposed to ride your bike through there." He yelled back "You're not supposed to walk your dogs there." Which is absolutely NOT true, and the area is in fact a very popular spot for people to take their dogs. He was an aggressive jerk who happened to be on a bike. I'll bet he's the same in a car.

[microchip]

I really dislike bicyclists. We have good bike paths. Fantastic ones in fact. Yet I still see them on the sides of thin roads, usually riding double-wide(which is illegal here when there is traffic).

Furthermore, why would they ever have to obey traffic laws at all? Well, they don't....



There is a very nice stretch of road by my house that a bunch of bicyclists lobbied to have repaved with a bike lane. There are never any bikes on it, ever. Furthermore, how was that repave funded? Car registration fees and emission testing fees of course....
In short: If bicyclists want to use the roads my car registration fees help pay for, they better cough up some dough or behave.

[Don C]

Just watched a confrontation the other night. Twenty-something bicyclist and a sixty-something motorist were jawing at a stoplight. Apparently, the motorist had taken issue with where the cyclist was riding (center lane of a very busy road). At the red light the verbal exchange got heated and apparently the cyclist spit on the driver through the open window. When the light turned green, the driver turned his wheels and ran over the bike.

Cyclist was not wearing a helmet and fell to the ground getting some scrapes but no damage; the bike got two bent wheels; the driver got an hour of quality time talking to the police. Six squad cars arrived in short order as well as a fully manned fire truck (to ask if he needed an ambulance - our tax dollars at work). Eventually the cyclist walked his bike home and the driver drove off. We never heard whether charges were filed.

[DaviDC.]

It chaps my butt to see a cyclist riding against traffic & I usually yell at 'em, "You're on the wrong side!"

[Kraniac]

microchip wrote:
I really dislike bicyclists. We have good bike paths. Fantastic ones in fact. Yet I still see them on the sides of thin roads, usually riding double-wide(which is illegal here when there is traffic).

Furthermore, why would they ever have to obey traffic laws at all? Well, they don't....



There is a very nice stretch of road by my house that a bunch of bicyclists lobbied to have repaved with a bike lane. There are never any bikes on it, ever. Furthermore, how was that repave funded? Car registration fees and emission testing fees of course....
In short: If bicyclists want to use the roads my car registration fees help pay for, they better cough up some dough or behave.

Yeah, bikes should be used on roads a lot more until all the car drivers decide to give in and get a bike and use it..actually use it..not just for riding on "paths" and then dumping it in your garage for ten years until you get a new girlfriend and decide to suggest a date where you "take a nice bike ride". Running errands on a bike is actually fun..though you do have to move the pedals and blow through stop signs.

Onwardly, they should double..triple your registration fees and tax you for making unnecessary trips in your car because you don't use LISTS, hating bike riders, ruining roads, polluting the air and the land, lowering the quality of life in cities, honking and tossing cheeseburgers out the window..

Taxes fund stuff like repaving roads all the time..do you think bikes are the ones causing the damage? Maybe the bikers found a shorter route inhabited by cars driven by people who don't dislike bicycle riders as much, you must be old or something. I'm sure that those biker's taxes went to pay for something you saw a need for..maybe for more blacktop parking in your own favorite herd of MALLS or for a new stoplight down by the Mars Cheese Castle..come to think of it..bikers don't even use stoplights...they should get a tax credit or a voucher of some sort from the government.

Furthermore, When I'm driving I fully expect bicyclists to break the law around me...most of what they do is very, very predictable once you embrace it and look at it properly.

The only thing I don't like is when I'm riding my bike at night and I'm not wearing any lights or reflective stuff, that sucks.

We need to recalibrate every person in this country including people like you. Bite down on the rag. It only really hurts when the meter pegs. Good news though, the meter only pegs when recalibrating Americans for multiple dumbshit stuff...

being way to dependent on automobiles for transportation and self image,

being fat from eating horrible shit

being generally lazy and visionless

not knowing htf the story of Rome goes

thinking that Rome was the capital of France and then of course... "yeah, but Italy's IN France". *

I wont mention the Gun freaks (requires three visits)







*thanks mike judge

[Kraniac]

DaviDC. wrote:
It chaps my butt to see a cyclist riding against traffic & I usually yell at 'em, "You're on the wrong side!"

Wow, that's an excellent thing to yell.

If my ass was chapped like yours I'd put some ointment on that muffin..maybe that's why you were irritable?

[Kraniac]

Don C wrote:
Just watched a confrontation the other night. Twenty-something bicyclist and a sixty-something motorist were jawing at a stoplight. Apparently, the motorist had taken issue with where the cyclist was riding (center lane of a very busy road). At the red light the verbal exchange got heated and apparently the cyclist spit on the driver through the open window. When the light turned green, the driver turned his wheels and ran over the bike.

Cyclist was not wearing a helmet and fell to the ground getting some scrapes but no damage; the bike got two bent wheels; the driver got an hour of quality time talking to the police. Six squad cars arrived in short order as well as a fully manned fire truck (to ask if he needed an ambulance - our tax dollars at work). Eventually the cyclist walked his bike home and the driver drove off. We never heard whether charges were filed.

Sounds like the old dude deserved that hocker..probably started running his mouth at the youngster for just seeing him riding in the street, old guys will do that sometimes when they need to express their manly man glands for old time's sake...the drivers need to understand..just keep driving and going straight...those bike riders can see you..they have you in their PLAN..most times they aren't gonna alter your AUTOMOBILE's course...of course..most times is the qualifier there..


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[Seacrest]

Both car drivers and bicyclists should re-read the vehicle codes in their states.
I find that, in general, if people would just follow the rules that are already on the books, a lot of these "misunderstandings" wouldn't happen.

Instead, our "rugged individualist" ethos has created a culture of proud rule-breakers on both sides, and no one wants to give an inch.

Here in Berkeley, of course, I find the drivers a little too accommodating. If I properly stop on my bike at a stop sign or light like I'm supposed to, I get dirty looks from drivers who are upset that I don't proceed to break the law (in some situations this would put me in danger) when they "wave me through."

[Seacrest]

Kraniac wrote:
[quote=DaviDC.]
It chaps my butt to see a cyclist riding against traffic & I usually yell at 'em, "You're on the wrong side!"

Wow, that's an excellent thing to yell.

If my ass was chapped like yours I'd put some ointment on that muffin..maybe that's why you were irritable?
Or maybe he was upset because some idiot was riding the wrong way in traffic?

[Kraniac]

Seacrest wrote:
[quote=Kraniac]
[quote=DaviDC.]
It chaps my butt to see a cyclist riding against traffic & I usually yell at 'em, "You're on the wrong side!"

Wow, that's an excellent thing to yell.

If my ass was chapped like yours I'd put some ointment on that muffin..maybe that's why you were irritable?
Or maybe he was upset because some idiot was riding the wrong way in traffic?
predictable response but most times folks just need to mind their own business, the bike guy PROBABLY did not endanger the dude car driver..drivers can be very angry people and even seeing a biker doing no no's can set them off..I see bikers doing no no's all day long in my hood...bike rogue central..and i could give a shit, i dont feel any need to yell out to them..it doesn't get me ANGRY..lol