# Sick and tired of bicyclists ignoring traffic law

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 13, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired-of-bicyclists-ignoring-traffic-law/663413 "2013-07-13T18:14:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired-of-bicyclists-ignoring-traffic-law/663413/125 "2013-07-16T18:45:07Z")

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> [@Troppus](#):
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> You can complain all you like. You can bust a vein while pounding on the caps lock key. But until or unless you have ridden a bike or actually take action to do something about the infractions, you are just willfully deaf to cyclists complaints and guilty of assuming that all cyclists are deliberate scofflaws.

Except that I haven’t said anything about all cyclists being scofflaws. Ever. **Troppus,** _that is only in your imagination._

You, on the other hand, have been making _explicitly_ all-inclusive generalizations since you started posting in this thread. Only since you are making them about motorists then that makes it okay I guess? Because, because bikes are magic and carbon footprints???

What a ridiculous load.

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