Er – I think that was a reference to this, from Mr. Miskatonic:
Which is a pretty sloppy bit of typing, admittedly.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled roasting.
Out of interest, what do you drive? It’s just, by your logic, if your car is slower or smaller than mine you’d better get the fuck off my roads.
I was wondering the same thing. Would be ironic if it’s some “penis extension” of a sports car.
Er – I think that was a reference to this, from Mr. Miskatonic:
Which is a pretty sloppy bit of typing, admittedly.
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Mea Culpa. Preview is my god, I shall not want. Preview is my god, I shall not want.
Still, I’d rather make spelling errors than demonstrate complete ignorance of the law a la the OP.
mjolley: The general theme here though is “I’m helping the enviroment so you horribile fat fucks in your stupid cars can just wait on my ass while I scoot on down the edge of this road.”
Wrong. The general theme is “I’m legally entitled to bicycle on this road if I obey the traffic laws, so I’m going to do so.” Honestly, mjolley, can’t you grasp the concept that cyclists use roads because that’s the law?
It’s the “me me me” syndrome that makes fuckers pull out in front of you and blow red lights, only now that they’re on bikes instead of cars they’re a bigger hazard.
Wrong again. Cutting people off and running red lights is improper and usually illegal behavior, whether it’s perpetrated by drivers or cyclists. Bicycling on a road (unless it’s a limited-access highway or another type of road that specifically excludes bikes) is perfectly legal and accepted by the rules of the road.
Get it, mjolley? If you don’t like the existing traffic laws—you remember, the ones that say it’s perfectly legal for cyclists to use roads?—then go to your local government and/or your state DOT and try to get them changed. I doubt you’ll have much luck, but you’re welcome to try. What you’re not welcome to do is to come around bitching and moaning about other people using the roads in a correct and legal manner, just because you happen to find it inconvenient.
As for moving into the other lane slightly when you pass one of these moving speed limits, it’s out of respect to them, since you don’t want to not move over and just tear inches past them, at least that’s they way I feel. I may think you all are complete assholes and I may wish for a spring-loaded rotary saw blade at tire length mounted to the side of the car, but I’m not really going to try to hurt one.
I guess that’s all we can hope for. If you need your murderous fantasies of vehicular homicide to reconcile you to the appalling burden of having to share the road with cyclists who are just as legally entitled as you are to use it, well, whatever works for you.
Once again, roads are not built for bicycles, considering they’re the perfect width for these evil polluting overwide penis extentions.
No matter how many times you repeat it, it doesn’t change the fact that according to the law, roads are built for bicycles (and in some states, skateboards and inline skates as well, in addition to other motor-powered vehicles) as well as cars. Again, if you don’t like it, change the law; don’t try to make rules for other people based on what you think the law ought to be.
When you go out into traffic onto something slower (even though you can beat a car off the line, can you keep pace with the traffic so they don’t have to slow down for you) and smaller, you make everyone else have to work harder to make sure they don’t kill you and thus raise their insurance rates and face jail time…
Geez, talk about “me me me” syndrome! Where did you get the idea that somehow automobile drivers were automatically entitled not to have to “work hard” to avoid damaging “slower” road users? Not from your local or state traffic ordinances. Not from your driver’s instruction manual. Slower users such as cyclists are legally entitled to share the road, and drivers simply have to accept that (unless, as I said, you can get the traffic laws changed) and take responsibility for driving safely on roads shared with slower users. Suck it up, and quit trying to blame it on other people who are simply using the roads as they have a perfect right to do.
Hey, let’s take up a collection and get mjolley a vacation in Amish country! If he’s so pissed from having to drive behind slowpoke cyclists, let’s see his reaction to :gasp: horsedrawn wagons!
Let me first say that I agree that we need to share the road with bikes. It’s not always safe, or convenient but that is just the way it is.
Usually.
I live in a tourist area. There is one primary road going north and south through the County. It’s a 2-lane state highway.
Our planners had the forethought to build a separate bike path about 50 to a 100 feet off the highway. It’s a very nice paved bikepath, 6-8 feet wide. Many bicyclists use it. Many use the highway. The complaint is that if they want to ride their bike fast, it is hard to do on the bikeway because they have to pass slower bikes! So what do they do? They ride on the highway and make the cars pass them.
I don’t doubt that passing other bikes can be a drag if you want to go fast but is it really worth risking your life? - apparently so.
:Sigh:.
Not even gas powered scooters are allowed on the bike path, but the bikes can ride next to cars going 60mph? If there is a bike path it should be used. Especially if the other option is a highway.
enipla: Our planners had the forethought to build a separate bike path about 50 to a 100 feet off the highway. It’s a very nice paved bikepath, 6-8 feet wide. Many bicyclists use it. Many use the highway. The complaint is that if they want to ride their bike fast, it is hard to do on the bikeway because they have to pass slower bikes! So what do they do? They ride on the highway and make the cars pass them.
I agree that that is stooooooooopid. Cyclists don’t have any God-given right to avoid dealing with slower traffic, any more than drivers do. I sympathize with cyclists who prefer to ride on roads, but I’d suggest that if it’s really that important to them, they should pick a more circuitous route that allows them to use smaller and less heavily traveled roads. Otherwise, just ride the bikepath and be prepared to brake for slower riders.
On the other hand, if your local traffic laws permit cyclists to use your 2-lane state highway with cars going 60 mph, I can’t really say they have no right to do it. Maybe you need to make that a limited-access road that specifically excludes bikes.