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June 8, 2011 1:58 p.m. carguy123 SuperDork

I ride a bike on public roads and I take every precaution to remain right side up and not impaled upon a car.

I break a lot easier than do the cars, but apparently I'm in the minority and not like all the other entitled riders who are willing to go to the hospital and maybe be crippled for life just to prove a point.

Just because they pass a law that says it's legal to jump 10' straight up in the air doesn't mean you can do it. Just because the law supposedly gives the right of way to pedestrians and bikes doesn't mean they shouldn't exercise a modicum of care. The human body is much more fragile than even the most fragile car.

I much prefer to continue walking and using my limbs to being RIGHT!

Last night I had a gaggle (that's what you call a group of geese and these guys exhibited the brain cells of a silly goose) all over the road just because they could. They had traffic backed up for quite a ways and a lot of angry drivers behind them. The road had a bike lane and they ignored it. They almost got hit as several guys zoomed by them.

As I passed I honked and a couple were so oblivious to what was happening around them that they almost jumped off their bikes. You've got to remember that Darwin will win!!
June 8, 2011 2:52 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork

Jumpin' Jesus Christ STFU !!! The cop was doing his job! If it wudn't for driving in the bicycle lane, parking in handicapped spots without a tag, speeding, lane splitting and threshold braking on ramps; I would never get anything done!

Bunch a damn girls I tell ya.
June 8, 2011 2:53 p.m. 914Driver SuperDork

You know that was sarcasm, right?
June 8, 2011 4:49 p.m. SupraWes Dork

Freakonomics, we have more cops and less crime thanks to abortion being legal = bored cops with nothing to do.
June 8, 2011 4:55 p.m. AngryCorvair SuperDork

ncjay wrote:

There's a 4 lane road nearby that has a generous bike lane. In the last few months I've noticed bicyclists riding right on the white line that seperates the main traffic lane from the bike lane. Normally, I give bikers a bit of extra space if I can, but not these clowns. I just can't imagine what is going through their head when they have a 3 foot wide (maybe wider) bike lane that they refuse to actually use, but instead put themselves as close as possible to traffic passing by at 60 mph.

so you're OK with killing one of them if perhaps they hit a bump and jog an inch or two to their left while riding on that line? if they were a foot to the right of the line, how far left would you move?
June 8, 2011 5:29 p.m. triumph5 Dork

Bikes in some of the "nicer" section of the Ct river valley think it's their god-given right to ride three wide, KNOWING there's a car behind them, and expect the car to move to the left lane on a curvy, narrow, somewhat blind road. Pisses me off---then I drop the car into first and drive behind them at 5k. Same ones who drive their cars 6ft off your bumper while hustling off to work in the morning.

More fun in the Spitfire. I drive in the middle of the pack; completely screws up their three abreast, and pack riding, and they are looking down at me while I wave back. I'm doing the 25mph speed limit, and not breaking any laws.
June 8, 2011 5:44 p.m. MitchellC Dork

Yikes! I'm sure that I annoy other people when I'm on the motorcycle, like how I accelerate to have an escape route when someone is driving parallel to me, or how I weave within the lane so that I'm visible to both left turners and mergers, but I guess my first priority is living another day. I'm glad that when I'm on the motorcycle, if someone looks like they're annoyed by how I am riding, I have the power to GTFO quickly.
June 8, 2011 9:57 p.m. Wally SuperDork

Strizzo wrote:

makes sense to make bikers use the lanes if they're there, and seems reasonable to expect them to stay in the bike lane except where there is an obstruction like construction or a parked car, but i've seen bikers nearly get run over when they go around a bus thats at a stop and the bus starts to pull back into the traffic lane just as the biker is going by. who's fault is it then?

If you're passing on the left 95% of the time it's the buses fault, he should see you in the mirror. If you're on the right as he's entering the stop there's a good chance he doesn't see you.
June 9, 2011 11:14 a.m. HiTempguy Dork

Maroon92 wrote:

Bikers ARE the most entitled to the road. They have right of way in ALL situations (except pedestrians...that hurts). If you fail to give right of way to a bicycle, YOU go to jail.

Not here they don't, bike's are treated as a motor vehicle if they are on public roadways. ALL traffic laws apply to them. They are basically equivalent to a self propelled motorcycle (surprise! because that makes sense).