The Inevitable Bike Argument Thread

[NynJa]

Yeah, because you know, I only lived in montreal for 30 years, where they try to encourage biking so much that they have this shit. But yeah, just some "fgt suburb" and not an actual city...

[tyven]

hey cool way to go you live in a city so you should understand the value of lots of cyclists and not every single fucking person in a densely populated area taking up the street with their parked cars or crippling the city's traffic flow because they don't car pool or use public transportation. If you can't deal with going below the speed limit until you can pass a cyclist i dont know what to tell you. perhaps you should move to the fgt suburbs.

[NynJa]

Riding my brakes is entering parking lot speed...I think thats a little bit too far below the speed limit.

[archibaldcrane]

Bikes are fucking annoying.

And I dill with it.

[tyven]

either you are describing the exception to the rule or canada is so fucking terrible that its citizens cant ride a fucking bicycle appropriately.

[NynJa]

If you could read, you'd see I said I ran into a fair share of asshole cyclists, and recently I dealt with that asshole I'm describing. Nowhere did I state "every cyclist on the road I encounter is a joyriding piece of garbage who takes up the whole lane in a 1 lane road".

[Cream Soda]

I will make the comparison again - cyclists are like the grannies going 20 in a 40, and they should be cited for impeding traffic, just as grandma would be. If there are bike lanes, and the cyclists are using them, good for them, I have no qualms with them. But that's the overwhelming minority in America at the moment.

Your comparison is invalid. Bikes and cars only have the same laws/rules when there isn't one specifically for bicycles. Bicycles don't need to maintain a minimum speed, so there is no reason to ticket them just because someone in a car would. Only applies to laws that apply to them both.

Don't feel bad in the slightest.


Again, if you have a problem with your driving conditions, then opt out or

[Dimmauk]

I'm cool with Cyclists, but Motorcyclists.....fuck those douche bags.

[Cream Soda]

My pet peeve are cars that don't use turning signals. (Unless it's a turn only lane).

If there's a lane where you have the option to go straight or make a right, then use the signal if you're going right.

If I'm in front and going straight at the intersection, if there is a car with a signal behind me, I'll move over a lane and let him make his turn. If they just honk their horns and no signal, I'll sit there until the light turns green.

If I'm coming from behind, cars will generally accelerate slower than I do (or if the light changes while I'm already maintaining speed, much slower than I do); so if they have a signal, I will break. If not, I will proceed with the pass, then they get mad when they have to slam their breaks because they were making a turn while I was trying to pass them. If their window is down, I'll just say "use your signal" as I continue and if not, I'll just flip the bird as I continue.

[Krazy]

The only cyclists that bother me are the ones that are out riding at night wearing dark clothes and no reflective gear on themselves or their bike.

[Cleverness]

I live in NYC and people just need to learn to deal with people on bikes, shit is not hard. Considering the average person in this city needs to be constantly aware because of crazy traffic situations(jams, speeding, running lights, etc) having to take care over a speeding guy on a bike isn't that much worse. If a large city while thousands upon thousands of cars in the streets at any given time can safely deal with bikers as the city is expanding itself to be more biker friendly(like city run bike rental stations you can use to get from A to B), especially when they don't get to ride majority of the year due to weather conditions, I don't see why places with less traffic conditions can't deal with it. Unless the person on the bike is purposely looking to cause trouble, like swerving into people(which I've seen) and/or just a major adrenaline junky it's not hard.

Bicycle stigma is so ridiculous, you have a handful of shitty people on them and then suddenly everyone is Satan on wheels. I'm not looking up the statistics atm but I imagine shitty/drunk driving causes more accidents/deaths than bikes in most places.

[Cream Soda]

The only cyclists that bother me are the ones that are out riding at night wearing dark clothes and no reflective gear on themselves or their bike.

oh, I hate them, too. I have $120 invested in lights. When there's a cyclist going against the flow of traffic and nearly hits me head on, I want to ram them off their bikes.

[Quixon]

Can't fucking stand dealing with bicyclists, so I don't. I live 60 miles north of NYC, VERY rarely is a bicyclists to be found on a road with a speed limit above 30 MPH, it's great. Any time I have to go down to NYC (this weekend for instance), I use mass transit.

Doesn't seem like a difficult proposition. If you don't like dealing with bicyclists, avoid dealing with them. They have as much right to the road as a car does, like or not. Bicycling on a sidewalk is fucking moronic.

I'll also mention I hardly ever have any issues with bicyclists where the road is clearly marked for them (bike lanes). They stay in their lane crawling at ~10 MPH, I stay in mine doing 30-40 MPH, and everything is cool.

[SephYuyX]

Are you sure about that? Because I'm rather sure self-driving vehicles will properly obey all the rules of the road. You might not want that after all.

I would kill for this.

I lose so much time because people where I live and work drive under the speed limit, they take x amount of seconds to go when the light turns green, super slow turns, don't get in turn lanes all the way blocking people behind them, etcetc.

If robotics were in place everything would be streamlined and fluid.

[Azull]

What no stopping at yield signs?

[Tajin]

The only cyclists that bother me are the ones that are out riding at night wearing dark clothes and no reflective gear on themselves or their bike.

As a bike commuter, this annoys me to no end.

[SephYuyX]

What no stopping at yield signs?

Railroad crossings too.

[RKenshin]

Can't we all just agree that assholes suck, no matter what method of transportation they're using?

That seems to be the only real issue here... that and a debate of which assholes suck more.

A driver that isn't a shitbag peabrain likely isn't ever going to be a problem/inconvenience/trouble for a bicyclist that isn't a shitbag peabrain, and vise versa. If all the shitbag peabrains GTFO, everyone would be happier.

[Tajin]

Relevant: Just mute sound unless you like eurodance.

[Aksannyi]

The only cyclists that bother me are the ones that are out riding at night wearing dark clothes and no reflective gear on themselves or their bike.

Holy shit, this. I've come so close to hitting people like this so many times.