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Thread: Fu*king Cyclists
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08-16-2022, 06:54 PM #2226
( one doesn't have to be 'on the drops' to engage brakes on a road bike -
bikes and vehicles are a situation prone to conflict for more than fifty years...
This is the 'f*-ing cyclists' thread that often gets used for ' ... motorists' posts...
we all have our moments -
I need to show more consideration ;
I no longer ride on the road
( too many f*-ing motorists ) --
ride on... skiJ
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08-16-2022, 08:58 PM #2227Registered User
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Stop signs are for yielding in Idaho stops - if it’s free and clear. If not, it’s a stop sign and the biker blew through a stop sign and almost hit Grizz. No one should have to worry about being passed at a stop sign even with no signal on.
another ‘fuck bikers’ story - I was biking on a bike path trying to make the crosswalk light as a train passed me, and some fucking biker decided he didn’t need to stop for the red light because the train just crossed (in SLC on the S-line path with the train tracks is a full-deal stoplight, not a crosswalk blinking light) he said ‘oh shit’ and didn’t even swerve. I skidded to avoid him. So many bikers are idiots.
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08-17-2022, 12:01 AM #2228
M too. I get in the right hand car thru lane if there's no room between the thru and right turnng cars. And I do try to get out of the way as soon as I can once the light turns green.
Here's one for you--does a pack of cyclists count as one vehicle at a 4 way stop sign or does each bike in the pack have take turns with the vehicles in the other roads? (IME all the bikes almost always go off together and at least around here the cars don't seem to get too upset about it. Same with motorcycle gangs.)
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08-17-2022, 07:52 AM #2229Registered User
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Fucking (e)cyclists. currently designing a road crossing of a recent rail-to-trail conversion in a major metro area. Due to existing adjacent grades and the army corps doing their classic thing of thinking a drainage ditch is beautiful habitat that must be protected at all costs, we need to utilize a decent amount of ramping, walls and handrails on the trail as it approaches the intersection. We are getting significant pushback on the design because the local jurisdiction has seen such a high number of ebike crashes and pedestrian conflicts on other sections of this trail that they fear the handrails will pose a danger to the idiot e-bikers. Braaaaap get out the way yo!
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08-17-2022, 07:58 AM #2230Registered User
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08-17-2022, 08:28 AM #2231Registered User
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Are you seriously suggesting that we add in additional obstacles for ebikers to deftly avoid while whiskey throttling down a gravel pathway at 30mph? In my hometown a few states away they recently re-angled some chicanes on a shard pathway to allow bikes to pass through without slowing much due to (im guessing) too many people crashing into them.
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08-17-2022, 09:28 AM #2232
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08-17-2022, 09:59 AM #2233Registered User
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08-17-2022, 10:44 AM #2234
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08-17-2022, 10:44 AM #2235Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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08-17-2022, 10:47 AM #2236
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08-17-2022, 10:51 AM #2237
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08-17-2022, 11:04 AM #2238
Good question.
Some people are extreeeemly offended by the use of the car horn.
But in this instance, one would hope it was just used to request that the cyclists ride single file on the shoulder.
I have some empathy for the driver since I get blocked by packs of cyclists on one of the roads to our house. I usually wait until I can get around in the oncoming lane.
Then the cyclists, either offended by the horn or by any request to share the road, flip off the driver.
But this illustrates these situations pretty well I think and there's lots of room for rabid indignation for either party.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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08-17-2022, 11:17 AM #2239
On the flip side, I was on a Portland Wheelmen (now Portland Bicycling Club) ride BITD when a car came alongside our group of maybe 25 riders, all riding in a bike lane.
Passenger leaned way out the car window to scream insults at us. As they were pulling away, her Oakleys fell off and bounced into bike lane
Where many riders ran over said glasses, rendering them junk
“Have a nice day”
ETA - holy shit, the same guy is still leading the Tues nite Tualatin rides for more than 20 years! We called him Stinky because he didn’t wash his gear enough…
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08-17-2022, 11:17 AM #2240
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08-17-2022, 11:20 AM #2241
this video doesn't do the filmer any favors
he honks; they pull over [so far so good, no?]
cut edit [likely missing some antics/tomfoolery]
driver is stopped in shoulder & cyclists pass in lane of travel looking back/gesticulating (maybe even yelling?) [who knows?...no audio & lo res]
rider looking back clips his buddy & they go down
had driver not been in shoulder, riders might still be riding the shoulder, no?
driver could have legitimate reason for being stopped on shoulder, but apparently riders seem pissed, so maybe not?
vid is woefully incomplete for legitimizing calling anything shown "entitled" behavior
sure is funny to see cyclists run into each other, tho, right?
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08-17-2022, 11:22 AM #2242one of those sickos
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Agreed that there's not nearly enough context here. But I'll note that honking is almost never nice and almost always startling. Also, cyclists are not required to ride single file and are have every right to ride in the lane--even if there is a bike lane. (At least in the places where I've checked the laws.) Drivers should pass cyclists just as they would a piece of farm machinery--safely, after changing lanes.
I was told by a sheriff deputy recently to ride single file on a road where maybe 3 cars will pass in 30 minutes. I started to correct him but he sped off. Even the popo doesn't know the law.ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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08-17-2022, 11:30 AM #2243
They're supposed to be stud road bikers, but seem a bit blasé about the phenomenon whereby oncoming losers with zero goal instinct meet at the narrowest or most hazardous point on a straight road with uncanny frequency.
This loser instinct and subconscious accelerator pedal manipulation is closely related to why defenders and other such no-scoring also-rans miss easy shots on breakaways - they feel the clock tick and focus on the goalie and because of that, they end up shooting right at the goalie instead of all that wide open net. But I digress...
Anyway, the bikers here are constricting the road in front of motor vehicles, aka acting like assholes.
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08-17-2022, 11:32 AM #2244
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08-17-2022, 11:35 AM #2245
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08-17-2022, 11:37 AM #2246Registered User
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08-17-2022, 11:38 AM #2247
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