Lets Complete This Little Analogy:
CARS > ROADS = BICYCLES > _________
Of course, the answer is SIDEWALKS, but you wouldn’t know it from the complete ass-clowns here. Somehow, shrink-wrapping your batch in neon-colored lycra and taping a reflector to your clenched little biker ass gives you the god-given right to pedel your little way down our fine state and county maintaned road network.
“But people on Bicycles aren’t pedestrians!” Fuck you! Does your conveyance have a motor? No? Then you’re a fucking pedestrian, get off the road asshole!
Living in the shithole region I do, normally the roads dont even have nice wide shoulders, it’s the white line, the rumble strip, then a ditch of some sort, or maybe a sheer dropoff, that dosen’t deter those bikers though, after all, they’re exercising or helping the enviroment or crushing that artery that supplies blood to their cock with their hard little seats…it’s the linux ego effect here, “I’m doing something the hard way so I’m better than you so YIELD TO ME”
Pedeling down that white line, occasionaly swerving into the lane proper, and all the while you and many others are held hostage behind him since there’s a curve every 5 feet so you can’t safely see around them. Held hostage at 10mph…oh wait, we’re going up a fucking hill, better coast down to 5…uh oh, gaining on him, better tap the brakes… OH FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK GET OUT OF MY WAY YOU SICK SON OF A BITCH!
The ONLY thing that belongs on the roads are cars. I’m alomst doubting motorcycles too, since they sort of resemble bicycles. They need to build overpasses for pedestrians, no people or bikes or dogs or anything BUT CARS NEED TO BE ON THE ROAD! Every time I see a bike convoy swerving their way up route 53 I just want to jam the accelerator and clip them with the corner of my car or the mirror or something…don’t these assholes have anything better to do?
Motorists of the world unite! If we all pledge to try to run one bicyclist off the road a day, we can move on to the power walkers! We can eliminate all pedestrians by the year 2005! Join me, won’t you?
Where I grew up they would give you a ticket if you rode your bike on the sidewalk. You were supposed to ride in the road; the laws were very clear on that.
For a start, roads predate the combustion engine by many thousands of years. Just because you have a relatively new-fangled gas-powered engine, doesn’t mean the roads automatically now belong to you and yours alone.
Cyclists are cool. I should know because I am one.
We’re not ruining the environment, nor is the West’s reliance on Middle Eastern oil our fault.
But we have to live with your bloody smog and sundry carcinogous fumes, we have to live with an almighty %age of our tax contributions going to build yet more sodding roads through the little green space left.
How much more peaceful and pleasant is the pedestrianised town centre, rather than the town who has been built to accomodate the stench and roar of motorised traffic?
Actually, in most areas the correct answer is ROADS – bicycles are legally supposed to be ridden on the roads, not the sidewalks.
If you want to start a rant on why cyclists don’t seem to be able to obey the Rules of the Road (or join one of the several ones already in existence), fine; but cyclists are supposed to ride in the street. If you don’t like it, get a law passed, but don’t come whining to us.
You just can’t argue with logic like that.
So it’s the cyclists’ fault your local infrastructure is crap?
God forbid something should inconvenience the progress of your overwide penis substitute, O mighty car owner.
Is there some medication you should be taking right now?
I’m sure the truckers say the same thing about y’all, Gomer.
Pardon me while I make a note of that for your upcoming vehicular homicide case…
Lessee…irrational, unjustified rant…bad spelling…ignorance of basic information pertinent to rant…
I give it a 2.1, and that’s just for the sheer vitriol and frothing at the mouth. Otherwise, a big disappointment. Thanks for playing, and better luck next time.
Why don’t you go to the library and look up the law so you won’t sound like a TOTAL idiot. It is ILLEGAL in most places to ride a bike on a sidewalk. Bicycles are vehicles, we pay our taxes and have every right to be on the road on not be threatened by car loving assholes. (by the way I do own a car). Sidewalks are too narrow for bikes, pedestrians with kids or pets and the like. So you have to wait a whole couple of seconds to pass, boooFUCKINGhoo. Heaven forbid you have to actually apply the brake and drive considerately. I hope the price of gas skyrockets, so you and others like you have to ride a bike, then drivers like you can run you down like you are nothing.
I can’t tell you the number of times I have been on Rt 20 in my area (A little curvy assed road) and gotten behind some shmuck on a bicycle who thinks he owns it all. God help if you hit one…Who’s fault would it be? The person in the car of course. “Driving too fast”, or “Not paying attention to the road”. Bullshit. If you come around a curve at 45-50 mph, only to find a person in BLACK spandex on a BLACK bicycle doing 8 mph…WTF do you think is going to happen?!? I have nothing against someone riding a bike, I enjoy it myself. But please, for the love of God, get on a road with shoulders and passing zones.
PS- Wear some brighter colors too.
Good fuck. I live in a place entirely populated by little curvy roads and people who like to cycle. I’ve never once had any trouble passing them. I think you need to learn how to drive better.
Or perhaps you’d prefer that all those cyclists were in large 4x4s? Then I’m sure your journey would proceed a LOT more smoothly :rolleyes:
Well gosh mjolley I guess that we should make you the head of Highways & Transportation. God forbid that anyone should waste a couple of minutes of your time, we all know how improtant it is that you get to your “Lets shove big things up your ass” seminar.
Thanks to jr8 I don’t have to rip your OP up.
Hey howgoesit howzaboutcha! Despite all rational thought cyclists actually prefer to ride on roads with big wide shoulders. Unfortunatly sometimes it is necessary to travel on a road with no shoulder to get from one nice road to another. Yes we know it is dangerous, we don’t like it, we know that we are pissing off small-minded drivers, but hey cut us a break, we are just trying to go from point A to point B. You will eventually pass us, so take a deep breath calm down and chill out man!
PS-most cycling gear is very very almost ugly bright.
When I saw the title, it made be think of the drivers in my city who have no compassion for pedestrians crossing the street. Here I am trying to cross a busy street with the white walk symbol clearly visible and drivers are cussing at me from their cars because I am trying to cross the street. Fuck you! On a couple occasions I have seen pedestrians almost get ran over. They are not part of “the field” asshole, they are human beings just like you and all they want to do is cross a street!
Cyclists are almost non-existent here. With open season declared on pedestrians, I believe they have learned to stay away from the busier areas of the city. So all the OP would need to do is make it so people don’t feel safe to cross streets and that should solve your cyclist problem. You’ll have a city like mine where cars rule, and pedestrians are targets of ridicule and abuse. Of course if you ever have to leave your car and actually become a pedestrian, or need to cycle to work cause your car is in the shop… You are royally fucked.
OP rants…okay.
OP has ZERO grasp of the law…bad.
OP wants people to give up their rights for his convenience…pitiful.
I don’t think this one even rates a 1.0 on the rant-O-meter.
Just plain pitiful.
Me? Just to make the OP happy I’m going to go get one of those way-cool motorized scooters so I can drive around on roads at 3 mph in perfect bliss, knowing that he’ll support me in my motorized glory.
I’m giving all takers 25-1 odds that the OP will not be back in to acknowledge his, er, rather egregious errors here. But, in any case, his profile states that he lives in Lousiville, KY. So let’s just see what the state of Kentucky has to say about bicycles, shall we?
So not only are they to operate just like a motor vehicle --meaning on the ROADS, not the sidewalks – they can be ridden on the highway, even riding two abreast.
I wonder what the Kentucky Driver’s Manual has to say about bicycles? Let’s take a look!
On Page 62 of the Kentucky Driver’s Manual, under the heading “Rules for Bicyclists,” we find the following:
Now, that one that’s in all caps – and yes, it does appear that way in the manual itself – might be difficult to understand, so I want to make sure you see it:
• DO NOT RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK
Again:
• DO NOT RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK
Once more, with feeling:
• DO NOT RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK
On page 61 of the Manual, we find the following (emphases mine):
So, not only are you wrong about that, but the Manual puts an extra onus on you as a motor vehicle driver:
So, mjolley, care to admit you were, well, dead wrong, or do you want to do it the hard way and get humiliated some more?
I’ll chip in with kabbes’s post and say that I, also, drive on curvy narrow rural roads and I have never had a problem with passing cyclists. Except for the one guy around here with a bit of a mental disability who likes to ride a bit too far over in the lane, the rest of them don’t have a problem keeping to the side, despite the crumbling shoulders, potholes and washouts.
Maybe you should just learn to drive, kiddo.
I don’t have the option of biking to work. I fully respect those who do so safely.
Moron. Pull that sort of trick around here and you’d be signing your own death certificate.
Pedestrians are those that use their feet as means of transportation(walkers). I am a pedestrian and MY personal rant is against those bikers who is the sidewalks instead of the road to ride. Not nice walking to someplace and being pushed out of the sidewalk thanks to a cyclist. Or worse, almost having a biker crash with you(the biker is riding behind you, and moves to you side at the last minute to pass you by). In fact, sometimes I am the one stuck walking in the road until the cyclists pass by.
You fucking moron, I have been nearly run over à plusieurs réprises by bicyclists who decided to ignore the law and basic human decency and chose to stay on the sidewalk with the soft killable objects instead of the hard unkillable ones. I have seen a little old lady come this close to getting her ass plastered by a cyclist zooming along at speeds that exceeded those on the adjacent street. I’ve come that close. Bicyclists do not belong on the sidewalk; they belong to the street, and asshole motorists (who by the way, you would think would have little moral authority to make pronouncements like this, already absorbing as they are massively many times their fair share of transportation subsidies; getting to sit in large metal boxes; and spewing noxious fumes into the air) should shut up and deal.
So, nobody wants cyclists on sidewalks*, and the OP doesn’t want them on the roads?
Two words: cycle lanes. Work a treat, if you can persuade cyclists to use them, and other road users to respect them. (I think I’ve made my feelings clear before on cyclists who ride on the sidewalk, and the necessity of applying electric cattle prods to their shrivelled and warty genitalia.)
Not being a driver myself, I’ll leave discussion of the OP’s driving skills to the experts… but I take a dim view of anything which forces cyclists off the roadway and onto my toes.
*[sub]Concession made here to North Americans, who don’t know which bit is properly called the pavement.[/sub]
I think the OP will return and feverishly and angrily argue an irrelevant point without any attempt at logic while at the same time refusing to acknowledge his/her mistake.