Bicyclists are infantile. They are not fit participants in a free society.
They are nuts, hippies and wimps. They are far more selfish than their carbon footprint or their effects on traffic patterns would suggest.
Yes, cars are dangerous, dirty, wasteful and expensive. So is life as a responsible adult. Fulfill your manifest destiny and drive a goddam car.
If you do bike, at least do society the favor of not wearing a helmet. The more of you are dead, or at least brain-dead, the better for the American way of life.
Yanno, I’m pissed at about 30% of the bikers I see these days: They don’t signal, don’t obey traffic laws, or are racing pell-mell down the sidewalk. Or worse are riding at night, while wearing dark clothing, weaving from one side of a major avenue to the other - and back again.
Where we differ, OP, is that I can recognize that those assholes are only a fraction of the bicyclists out there. Most of the ones I see do obey traffic laws, are aware of the world around them, and no more included to cause problems than any other sane member of society.
Advocate improved enforcement of traffic laws upon bicyclists, and I’ll be with you 100%.
This whiny bullshit throwing a cubic meter of fecal matter over all bicyclists because someone pissed in your Wheaties is not that. All you deserve for this nonsense is a round mocking.
While that’s true enough, it would be nice if bicycle riders that I had just succeeded in passing didn’t come up to me at the stoplight, pass me on the right, and pull in front of me again.
I don’t know why we have to have this “discussion” again. Some drivers are assholes; some cyclists are assholes. Seems pretty simple to me.
This is really the heart of the matter. There are a small number of cyclists who cannot comprehend the fact that they are required to obey traffic laws. The fact that (at least around here) the police do almost nothing to enforce the law WRT cyclists only reinforces their view.
Somehow, to bicycle haters, all those cars exceeding the speed limit, rolling through stop signs, tail-gaiting, failing to signal lane changes and turns, failing to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks, talking on cell phones while driving, etc., are perfectly legit.
YOU are a fucking moron. Eat maggot-infested bison dung, you cretinous waste of space.
I agree with the OP in a way but I don’t think that bicycles themselves are to blame for bad choices on the part of their owners. I have known lots of people that like to ride bicycles are some are good and some are bad just like anything else. Kid’s BMX style bikes are generally fine as long as they keep them on vacant lots and I have known even older people that made bicycle riding look normal. I think that the negative imagery of a bicycle used on public roads is just a proxy for the types of people that are a threat to America: hippies (as always), socialists, effete upper-middle class men, ghetto kids, overweight soccer mom’s on a rare health kick, and college sophomores. Those people are the real threats and we shouldn’t confuse an inanimate object with the people that use them to promote a subversive agenda.
My exact thought – I saw the headline, and thought “Oh, a thread making fun of that dickhead in Denver”*. When I read the OP, I still wasn’t sure…and to be honest, I’m not yet convinced either way.
*“Starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan – only in theaters, this September!”