Fu*king Cyclists

[old goat]

My kid bike commuted in Boston in all seasons for years. Because the hospital was charging residents $400/month for parking. On days that were just too nasty to ride he took an Uber.

[fomofo]

[Shredhead]

Guy brings up some good points.
He needs some fatties.

Lots of people ride in ski boots here.
There's at least 50 bikes at the Gondi, everyday.

[TBS]

Don’t remember if I posted this here before.

Stratton Matheson rides his bicycle 20+ miles (and 3k feet of elevation diff) each way to go skiing at Mt Bachelor - almost every day
https://bendmagazine.com/stratton-ma...ike-and-boots/

[muted reborn]

There's at least 50 bikes at the Gondi, everyday.

That is very cool

[The SnowShow]

This MN ass is still trying to get himself killed:

https://youtu.be/i6CN9Dpjslw?si=ycpBnILypaN6iIl7

[mcski]

Naw, that dude is immortal or he’d be dead by now after all these years being a menace

[BmillsSkier]

Damn I was positive that guy would be at a bottom of one of the 10,000 lakes by now.

[Dantheman]

It's amazing he hasn't stroked out.

[highangle]

Meanwhile, he's a half million dollars in debt, his wife is the town pump, and his son is having an affair with the parish priest.

[californiagrown]

Why do some cyclists hug the car-lane side of the bike lane? Its like they need a line to follow with their front tire and so instead of riding in the middle of the lane, or shading toward the shoulder side, some of them just put their head down and hug that shared line. The weather is getting nice again here which means the return of bike commuters on ebikes who havent been on a bike in 8 months and have shitty bike handeling skills, and an entitled attitude. Gonna be shaking my head in disbelief a whole bunch this summer.

[Dantheman]

Pretty common for there to be a lot of gravel and debris the closer you get to the shoulder side.

[californiagrown]

I know that can be the case, and that would make sense. But the road i commute by car on is a popular road biking route (travels through a forested state park and along Lake Washington) with newly widened and upgraded bike infrastructure that gets swept quite a lot... there is no discernible debris-issue there. Im convinced its just because some cyclists get hypnotized by the white line. Maybe i can push for a dashed thin line down the center of the bike lane the next time i have to spec an upgraded bike lane on a project.

[HappyCamper]

When I bike-commuted I stayed closer to the line to avoid getting hit by someone opening their car door into the bike lane.

Didnt happen much and Id keep a watch on windows but gave me a few holy shit moments.

[Dantheman]

It doesn't sound like there are many parked cars along the route californiagrown is describing, but yeah, for urban riding door zone vs. car zone is a delicate balance.

[dan_pdx]

Who knows, there are dingbats in all modes of transportation. I've seen cyclists give the arm signal for a right turn and then turn left more than a few times. One guy was teaching that to his elementary school age son. I told him he was doing it wrong as I rode by but shockingly he chose not to believe me. I yelled at him to look it up before I got out of earshot, but I would bet $100 he didn't.

Certainly around Portland, the area on the far right of the road is a fucked up wasteland of fentanyl pipes, gravel, and random debris, and you ride a little closer to the white line than you would prefer but I can't speak to your local conditions. If they really run a street cleaner there on a regular basis, it sounds like a ride I might want to check out, it would be a pretty refreshing change.

[californiagrown]

Sometimes its cool to be a little more sub, than urban... we can have nice things. The two cities that the route is located within just completed full road widening and infrastructure upgrades on the road late last month (took 2.5 years for the full upgrade)... the whole thing is up-to-date bike infrastructure and smooth pavement. Mint, if you're into that kinda thing. But, because it is so nice, it does attract all kinds of cyclists and you're bound to get more than a few clueless folks out of that group. I just drive it everyday and the clueless ones are memorable, so i post them here.

[jackstraw]

Commuting home on my eeb from work I cross a bike/pedestrian bridge. It's three people wide, so fairly tight biking by two side by side walkers. I'm coming up on two guys slowly and the one doesn't see me coming and steps and peers over to look at the river. So I brake an move a little to the center and a rhoadie buzzes by me and splits the two walkers. They were startled by the tool. I pass them once they got back side by side and catch the rhoadie. I told him that was a douchebag move and no wonder everyone hates rhoadies. He turns his head and yells what are bantering about? So I pull right up next to him a tell him again nice an clearly to his face and added again its people like you that give all roadie's a bad name. No reply. So I just said go along and stayed behind him. Such a dick.

[dan_pdx]

I had a fixie fucker do something similar in Portland during the height of the hipster era. Actually, maybe worse - my wife and I were commuting home across a bridge and went single file to pass some pedestrians who were looking over the railings, then he passed us on the right. If you fall off the sidewalk there, it's about a foot down to a metal grate roadway with heavy car traffic: if he had bumped us off the sidewalk, we would have a high chance of getting hit by a car. I caught up with him after we got past the pedestrians and asked what his fucking problem was and he said very lamely that he was in a hurry. I said something like "well, hurry off on your stupid fashion bike then" and we found that he actually couldn't ride fast enough to pull away, so we got to awkwardly ride side by side until he turned off. What an asshat.

[highangle]

So the optimal ride from my $535k studio that I bought because it was an 8.5 minute flat pedal to my $212k/yr cubical @VBulletin HQ where I do html padding for interoffice presentation pages would be a $13k 12-speed with 120lb gummies and a road contact footprint of <3mm? Srsly guys, I trust the community.

[californiagrown]

Almost took out a biker on the commute in this morning. Coming down a long mile-long downhill the bike traffic goes faster than the 25mph vehicle speed limit, so they can sneak up behind you. Most traffic turns left at the bottom, but I go straight and then 50 yards later the road turns 90deg left into a parking lot drive aisle where i park. As im slowing and making that final left, a chunky biker flies up from behind and cuts the corner of the left turn, into the oncoming lane, then back into the correct lane, and barely misses knicking my left front bumper as i complete the left turn. I guess the guy wanted to carry the downhill speed through the flat parking lot area and kinda mistimed his pass- he threw his hand up afterward in a &quot;sorry&quot; motion. SMH.

[The SnowShow]

Our MN friend has been doing this shit for eight freaking years. Bahahaha

https://youtu.be/co3fFGs7If4?si=uBjCzFWEX8xHxSkj

[mcski]

Longer than that

[waveshello]

I know that can be the case, and that would make sense. But the road i commute by car on is a popular road biking route (travels through a forested state park and along Lake Washington) with newly widened and upgraded bike infrastructure that gets swept quite a lot... there is no discernible debris-issue there. Im convinced its just because some cyclists get hypnotized by the white line. Maybe i can push for a dashed thin line down the center of the bike lane the next time i have to spec an upgraded bike lane on a project.

Sounds like Juanita Dr.

Did you try to run me down on Juanita last summer? Kidding, sort of.

Sometimes it's debris, sometimes it's manhole covers/drains, sometimes there are limbs/bushes hanging in to the shoulder, sometimes the far edges of the road are just poorly constructed. There are a few of those issues to avoid on SB Juanita Dr, but for my own safety I try to hug the shoulder pretty closely.

Coming down the hill NB is another story, I'll be going 40+ and the bike lane is just unsafe at that speed. Also there isn't time for people turning right on to Juanita to see you if you're in the bike lane, and no time to react when they do.

[californiagrown]

^dingdingding. Juanita to Market is the commute. FYI construction just wrapped up and its fully striped and open now through finn hill. Like i said, i get avoiding catchbasin grates or limbs etc (less so manhole covers), but that is honestly rarely the case for people hugging the lane line. Its usually people grinding uphill, so i truly think it is folks just needing a line to follow with their front wheel while head-down grinding. maybe something in their brain says that the pavement edge is dangerous so they need to stay well off it, and don't realize how close they are to the vehicle lane now? IDK. And, yes the bike lane down the hill towards the river at 40+ is unsafe. That's because the speed limit is 30mph there lol, and all the roadway improvements made in the last 3 years were geared towards slowing traffic down through that corridor. I actually see way less sketchy cyclist-vehicle interactions on that stretch than i do coming down the hill on Market into downtown kirkland. I've seen a ton of crashes and near misses there over the years with 100% being the bikers fault for going way too fast (40 in a 25, cough cough), misjudging their cornering, ignoring peds in xwalks, etc. And, FWIW, the reason i post in here fairly often is because that route has been my daily commute for years and as you can attest, it is highly used for cycling... so i just see a lot of interactions. Not because im out there looking for problems and bringing it on myself with aggressive driving.