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NobodysHome wrote:
Rynjin wrote:

I'd need to grow a thousand extra hands to count the number of times I've seen some m@~**!%+~#!# on a motorcycle break the law in about 5 different ways just driving a mile down a stretch of road. Running stop lights, swapping lanes willy-nilly, driving on the center line, hopping up on the sidewalk to get around traffic, and yet we get laws and signs telling cars to "Please be considerate" and "Share the road" because they keep getting hit and dying.

GEE I WONDER WHY.

The fact that there are sponsored "Bike Weekends" all over the country astounds me. It's essentially "Bikes ONLY Weekend" since it's generally not safe to be on the road. Not because of injury, but fear of being prosecuted for hitting some idiot who thinks the rules of the road don't apply to him, who the law agrees with.

Sorry to anyone here who is a biker. I'm sure you're a nice person as long as your ass is seated firmly in a chair in front of your computer and not on a motorcycle out menacing the road.

LOL. Both because I love derailing threads, and because I was a bike commuter for 26 years, I have to reply!

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I'm even more vehement than you. Motorists should be allowed to run over any bicyclist who would cause them to hit the brakes.

I would have been killed dozens of times over then, crushed between a "justified" vehicle and an idiot that opened their driver's side doors.

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The number of times I was honked at for stopping at stop signs (because cars didn't expect it), yelled at for walking my bike in a crosswalk (it's the law. Look it up),

You literally ride your bike down a block to dismount and walk across a crosswalk? That sounds a bit...silly. maybe it's not being explained properly. but I know that isn't the law here Where I live.

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or run off the road because some driver had an issue with ALL bikers is pretty alarming.

I figure the solution to the U.S.'s traffic woes is to put cameras at every intersection, then tell everyone, "If you have the right of way, you don't have to brake for ANYTHING."

It would at least be a huge boom for the Reality TV industry. And it would get people interested in what "Right of Way" actually means...

EDIT: Fair disclosure: Living in the S.F. Bay Area and having to deal with pedestrians, especially in Berkeley and S.F., can make you very VERY bitter.

  • "Well, just because it's a red light...
  • AH, Cali. Say no more. Cyclists there give us all a bad name.


    Kirth Gersen wrote:
    NobodysHome wrote:
    disclosure: Living in the S.F. Bay Area and having to deal with pedestrians, especially in Berkeley and S.F., can make you very VERY bitter.
    Fair warning: As an avid pedestrian, I've been struck and knocked down by speeding bicyclists who insisted on riding on the sidewalk instead of the street, and I finally swore to kill the next one who did so, and throw his bicycle into oncoming traffic.

    LOL. I'd help you throw the bike.

    If I had to categorize "worst of the worst", it would be:
    #1: 95% of all bicyclists (Just for Freehold: California cyclists)
    #2: The 5-10% of pedestrians who believe that being on foot = "The world must stop for me"
    #3: 100% of all drivers

    EDIT: Yeah, Freehold: One of my two cracked helmets was a driver opening his door. My bike ended up in his seat, my head met the pavement with some enthusiasm. All laws are flawed, because there are always such exceptions...


    Kirth Gersen wrote:
    NobodysHome wrote:
    disclosure: Living in the S.F. Bay Area and having to deal with pedestrians, especially in Berkeley and S.F., can make you very VERY bitter.
    Fair warning: As an avid pedestrian, I've been struck and knocked down by speeding bicyclists who insisted on riding on the sidewalk instead of the street, and I finally swore to kill the next one who did so, and throw his bicycle into oncoming traffic.

    the sidewalks are for the cattle pedestrians. Cyclists take to the streets.

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