Never bring a baseball bat to a truck fight.
This is why I wear a headcam when I ride in town. Any and all aggression stops with a blank look of “uh oh.”
If it makes you look anything like this dork , I’d have to run you over just on principle.
Shit I’d ride into oncoming traffic.
As a regular commuter, I can say with some confidence that other bikers hate this asshole more. He’s pissing off drivers that take it out on us.
Presumably, El Cid does not resemble Eugene Levy.
Yes yes yes yes and more yes. Really all it takes is one idiot to destroy a driver’s perception of riders. I know a bunch of other people who rely at least mostly on bikes for transportation for various reasons (personal health, ‘save the earth’ ethics, just enjoy riding, or like myself, too damn poor to afford a car), and it pisses us all off to no end when other cyclists are jerks. Anyone can be an asshole driver, but it takes a special type of idiocy to be an asshole rider.
I went over forty years without knowing it’s called a “fog line”, but that’s the name for it.
Reading that story, I have absolutely no clue who was driving which car. That’s some bad reporting, including the use of “driver’s” instead of “drivers.”
Tube top, tight hot pant riding shorts, special black leather riding boots with clips, and…
I’ll be in mah bunk.
Yeah, yesterday I was crossing a street controlled by lights, and a bicyclist made a left-hand turn on the red light! He didn’t cut off anyone who was crossing the street, but his audacity shocked me.
I also got a glare from a bicyclist who was sitting on his bike waiting at a pedestrian crossing. Hey, if you aren’t getting off it and walking it, I don’t have to stop for you.
I have a special sort of disdain that is reserved just for assholes who do this and expect me (on my bike) to stop for them. If I use a cross walk I dismount and press the button. You’d be surprised how many people refuse to stop for me then too. But then again … they don’t stop when I’m on foot either.
Stupidest cyclist ever: he was weaving in and out and back and forth and passing on the right and running lights and basically putting himself and everyone else on the road in danger. Problem was he was pedalling slow enough that I kept catching up with him (because he kept passing me at stoplights that I stopped for but he didn’t) so I was avoiding him most of the way home.
Now, the street we were on had 2 lanes in each direction, and features streetcars, which run on tracks in the centre lane. Streetcars present a number of hazards to cyclists, such as their metal tracks (that can quite effectively grab your wheel when you cross them), and their habit of stopping abruptly in the middle of the street to unload passengers (so other road users must stop behind the rear doors to avoid hitting pedestrians) so if ever there’s a time to pay attention to what you’re doing on a bike, it’s when it’s rush hour and you’re sharing the road with streetcars.
But this asshole found an unexpected way to threaten his life! Streetcars moving in opposite directions pass extremely close to each other (here’s a picture). So imagine my surprise / horror when stupid cyclist passed the streetcar on the left, and my further surprise / horror when another streetcar passed by going in the opposite direction … my heart stopped …
To my further surprise, he did emerge from the other side. Is there a word for “a missed opportunity for schadenfreude”? Because that’s how I felt.
Um, yes you do. At least here. And what is your problem with this? If he is on the bike, isn’t he going to get out of your way faster?
Notice how this thread has gone from bashing a driver to bashing bicyclists? WTF? For any given infraction, the driver is the bigger asshole. A bicyclist running a light is risking his own life. The driver running a red light is risking his life and other people’s lives. A bicyclists does a rolling stop at a stop sign, and he’s an asshole? How many cars do rolling stops? How many of us actually stop at a red light when making a right? You’re supposed to, you know. And yes, I’ve come across some poor bicyclist trapped under a car because the driver couldn’t bother to stop and didn’t see him before making a right - while he was riding down the right lane under the green light.
Maybe I’m just bitter because last week, about five miles from my house, some 62 year old lady killed two bicyclist in town on a minor road. The most likely cause of the accident? It wasn’t the bikes, they were obeying the rules of the road. She wasn’t wearing her fucking contacts.
And on Friday, or maybe it was Wednesday, some poor SOB on a motorcycle was killed by a truck changing lanes in the middle of intersection. That was .6 miles from my house.
And then this morning, some asshole dialing his cell phone while driving crossed into my lane and we almost had a head on. A small, two lane road parallel to the fucking interstate - there is next to no traffic on that road! This isn’t even a big city and it is on the list of “most friendly” to bicyclist!
Shit. Sure, we all remember a bicyclist somewhere at sometime being a moron, but unless they’re riding on a sidewalk in a residential area, most likely that is all they are being. Whereas we all see drivers racing red lights and otherwise being assholes.
Where do you live? I highly doubt that is the case, if you look into local law. Here in Saint Paul/Minneapolis, about one of the most bike friendliest cities according to many measures. And a Bicyclist is a VEHICLE. A vehicle bound by the rules of road. Now, the nice thing about being a cyclist is that it is really easy to get of your bike and become a pedestrian (a true hybrid).
To be totally fair, I’ve done this myself on occasion. Sometimes you don’t or can’t trip the pads and if there’s not a lot of traffic, you’ll wait a long damned time before someone comes along who will make the light turn green.
That said, the driver in the OP is a waste of space. I’ve been knocked down a coupla times myself, and brushed back innumerable times. But there’s a special sort of shit stain who will purposefully cut you off then verbally give you shit.
Almost makes me wish for the garden-variety shit stain who’ll only cut you off.
Not quite, but almost.
Back in the early '90s, Madison, WI, I got a traffic ticket for riding my bicycle through a pedestrian crossing, and was specifically told by the police officer that if I’m going to use a pedestrian crossing, I must dismount the bicycle.
That may be true. But the car still must yield. Just like cars must yield to pedestrians who are jaywalking. At least everywhere I’ve been. Yeah, technically jaywalking is illegal, but when is the last time someone got ticketed for jaywalking in your town? Come close to hitting a jaywalker that you can reasonably avoid, and you are the one who will be ticketed for reckless driving. And, unless the crosswalk was crowded, you could probably have successfully fought your ticket. I only qualify the statement because college towns sometimes have a problem with a large number bicyclists skirting the law. Here, while technically correct, it would considered a frivolous ticket. A town near here, Woodland Park, recently fired a few policeman in Woodland Park for writing frivolous tickets.