I see this is just turning into another good ol’ SDMB cyclist hate-on.
Well, the whole Jew thing was getting a bit played out.
Here’s something I won’t do very often - defend cyclists. In my neighbourhood, about the only cyclists who aren’t on the sidewalks are the Serious Cyclists in their douchey costumes. Of course, they’re breaking all kinds of other laws…
I hate cyclists because they earn it - I wasn’t born hating cyclists. I hate them as a pedestrian because they are all on the sidewalk with me, where they don’t belong, making MY walking where I do belong more dangerous for me to try to make things less dangerous for themselves. That equals selfish douchiness to me.
I hate cyclists as a driver because of the way they pick and choose which laws they’ll obey - ride across the crosswalk to avoid waiting for a red light, then back onto the road, then onto the sidewalk again, then the wrong way up a one-way road, then drive their bikes across a bridge sidewalk where they’re supposed to get off and walk - there’s no limit to the assholery I’ve seen from cyclists.
ETA: I forgot the ones downtown on the bike paths who ride as fast as they can in 5 kph zones that are always very crowded - so frickin’ dangerous!
What? Since when? I don’t post much in the pit so I must have missed that rule change 
I’m one of those pedestrians you are almost hitting all the time because you’re riding in the shoulder in the city between the one way traffic and cars parked on either side of the road.
IT IS BECAUSE I DON’T FUCKING SEE YOU!
No seriously do you know what a biker rider looks like before you can tell they are a bike rider? Beats me, a bizarre hunched over person too far away to matter, by the time I can tell you are a bike rider we’ll do the bizarre dance people do when they try to pass each other on the sidewalk and we’ll both be swearing at each other after.
Stop barreling down the street in a narrow strip at 40 fucking miles per hour maybe?
I wasn’t sure there were language rules in the Pit. 
Never said he was proud, mate.
That it is so incredibly rare and most cyclists do it, yet somehow not only did he get caught but also managed to get a not-too-small fine for it.
Well, at least you admit you are a complete bigot.
If there’s a car to your left I’d say the pedestrians have bigger problems than getting run down by your bike.
Not necessarily, it could have been a car coming the other direction which just passed where the pedestrians were trying to cross. The pedestrians may have timed their cross to do so after the car passed while ignoring the cyclist.
I’d like to know where these cyclists are who can barrel down the road at 40mph between the driving lane and the parking lane in city traffic, because that would be one hell of a fucking feat.
Peds can be dumb, and I say this knowing that I am one daily in Chicago. They like to step off the curb and move into traffic slowly, watching the cars go past, not noticing the approaching bicycles.
Well if you assholes would stop being assholes on the road then we wouldn’t need to hate you. I still would but I just wouldn’t need to.
{Fist bumps Drunky Smurf}
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If there is a crosswalk, vehicles are supposed to yield. Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I was speaking of both intersections with lights, those without lights (but with crosswalks), and crosswalks across streets between intersections.
I agree but there are way too many bikers who do not, and unfortunately because of those who don’t, most of us don’t feel inclined to offer much sympathy when a doper who bikes comes here to rant about it, it’s too easy to remember the times some idiot decided to cut the intersection (or whatever that kitty corner move is called) and narrowly missed wiping me out. FWIW, because I walk for most of my commuting, I do watch for bikes and motorcycles the times I end up having to drive my truck, but it’s really aggravating when so many of them don’t return the favor to peds (and don’t get me started on how rude they are to motor vehicles).
Anyway, I’ve no doubt that few (if any) dopers are THAT biker. 
He stated exactly what I meant by my post.
The latest in Portland is cyclists refusing to yield to pedestrians in cross walks on intersections with stop signs; I guess it’s just too hard to get back up to speed when you are on a god damned fixie. And the fucking arrogance is unbelievable. I almost go hit by someone blowing through a stop sign. There was no sheepish “sorry bro” he just kept on going and blew though the next stop sign as well.
I commuted by bike in Boston 30 years ago, but I’ll be damned if I vote for another funding request for bike lanes until they start policing these assholes and writing tickets. Maybe confiscating a few thousand dollar bicycles would help as well.
Damn skippy! Really, I rather quickly lost count of the times I almost got clobbered by some moron on a bike who was:
[list=a][li]running a stop sign[/li][li]barrelling down a crowded sidewalk[/li][li]running a red light[/li][li]going too fast for conditions[/li][li]driving at night with no lights[/li][li]illegally turning against traffic, to include foot traffic[/li][li]a few other violations I can’t remember right now[/list][/li]
I’m with you on the confiscation thing. Start ticketing the lunatics, assigning them points against their DMV record, and once they reach a certain number of points–or of they hit a pedestrian–confiscate their high-dollar death trap and sell that sucker off to off-set the cost of bike lanes.
For the bike riders that follow the laws, give them some kind of break. Maybe give them a new bike helmet on their birthday. Sadly, from what I’ve seen, there won’t be that many helmets given out.
By the way, the one time I got into a bike-on-bike collision was while on-campus at University of California, Davis. The young lady on the other bike made an abrupt turn across traffic without looking. I went sprawling. She managed to stay upright and proceeded around the traffic circle, no intent to stop. Yep, that’s called hit and run. I managed to run across the circle and grab her bike and we had a nice, calm, polite (really, no sarcasm, it really was nice, calm, and polite) chat. The jackass who inserted himself into the conversation from across the way wasn’t polite. The woman on the other bike had this mind-boggling statement for why she didn’t stop: “I didn’t realize I had to.” She now knows she has to and that, yes, traffic laws apply to bikes, too.
So leaving aside a load of rhetorical dribble and wild imaginings about “eco warriors”, what I take from your post is that you don’t deny that motorists routinely break the laws that I (and Mr Miskatonic) have said they break. You don’t deny motorists routinely speed. You don’t deny motorists routinely don’t indicate. You don’t deny many motorists roll though stop signs. You don’t deny many motorists drink drive. You don’t deny many motorists run reds. You don’t deny many motorists use cell phones while driving. You also don’t deny that the physics is such that this is all more dangerous than what cyclists do.
So your singling out of cyclists as assholes has nothing to do with rationality.
No doubt you enjoy fantasising about asshole cyclists hitting little old ladies on sidewalks so your bigotted little peabrain can froth with recreational outrage at the scene you have created.
Meanwhile, in the real world, cyclists may very occasionally hit someone and even more occasionally be at fault, and even more occasionally cause serious injury. And motorists running lights and driving drunk and talking on their cellphones will actually kill pedestrians (and other motorists) by the score. But you won’t even notice the latter because it’s so routine you’re not capable of seeing it.