Just here to say it's your own damn fault for living in a fucked up, shit hole nanny state like CA to begin with.  Sorry...no sympathy...just like I have no sympathy for those who bitch about NY's taxes either.

It means that those silly looking guys in the bodygloves probably have cars and pay to drive on the road as you do, and they probably are paying more to use it than you are. That's by the nature of their income, and what types of vehicles they usually have.

While I acknowledge many bicyclists also have cars and often nice ones, that actually has no merit towards their equal access to the roads on a bike that (typically) pays zero in insurance, fees, registration or contributes directly to the roads.



If I pay a great deal with my other vehicles in order to use the road, that doesn't mean that my bicycle is thusly more welcome, made for, or on equal footing financially or otherwise as a car. You might even make the case that society is subsidizing bicyclists with special lanes that they then do not get to use, so bicyclists are in the negative with direct contributions.



Maybe if everyone just paid an umbrella "road tax" by their income and any and all vehicles would be covered, but it doesn't work that way. I might make $10,000,000 a year and pay ungodly taxes, and own no vehicles at all. Or, I might only ride a bicycle, or I might have a fleet of 10,000lb trucks I hammer the roads with....but no matter, each vehicle contributes on its own use, each taxpayer pays separately for each the access to the roads...and the overall kitty pays for the upkeep that we all have access to.



I know, as a bicyclist, I pay nothing for my bike to be on the road and my car & truck fees and taxes do not make up for that fact, and I consider myself a guest that should respect that fact.





 

No one wants to lose a race, excuse me, group ride to the frozen custard joint because their anal tract was cluttered with just that one extra ounce of fecal matter.
 

 Anything to win the county line sprint!

Can you fucking read? Federal taxes there sport. I said nothing about state taxes. So tell me, what state has the cheapest federal taxes?

I stayed a summer in CO with my brother. I climbed the canyon roads and bombed back down, never had any trouble from the locals. I thought it was insanely fun; the switchbacks, oh my! WTF, vertical? 40+ Mph, hit the brakes and damn-near take a knee!


I totally agree. I may get carried away sometimes, but I'm always courtious and concious of safety.

I do the same damn thing.

A 2 ton truck vs them isnt much of a fight.


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What pisses me off about PDX bicyclists, is that they scream and yell about giving them their "3 feet of space" when passing them, but mother of fuck they will split lane (not legal in Oregon) between cars with 2 inches on either side and that's just fine.  Follow the rules or get off the road.

So is blowing through stops signs, riding through cross walks and splitting lanes.  That stuff doesn't seem to bother them at all.

I encounter dumb-ass motorists nearly every day (driving), bicyclists not so much.  But they pay insurance and taxes! Or maybe not, but they still motorized, so mo' better. Fuck that!

I think the real question should be how to get rid of dickheads/dumbasses on the road. Never happen, need to perpetuate economy.

We could institute a fine system where you're forced to have a plate under the rear seat with a number on it. If your number is called in to the spandex violator hotline with a sufficient number of complaints for asshat behavior, your fine is a 10lb weight block that must be adhered to your frame, then 10 more for the next infraction. That'll put the serious fucking crimp on asshat roadies...or they'll develop drumstick legs like a motherfucker.


 

As a PSA to arfcomer's who think this is funny or appropriate: Most guys who ride $10,000.00 bikes for recreation wearing $1,000.00+ in clothing are not your local yokels anymore. These guys are Lawyers, Doctors, Hedge Fund Mgrs, or Dot com owners who know high powered lawyers. The vast majority are liberals who are more equal than others. They will fuck your shit up. YMMV. Subject to credit approval. Offer not available in Montana.

Wow, 8 pages of this crap? I am going to bet OP saw the bikes and turned around so that he was behind them and took a few phone pics. In a residential neighborhood where the speed limit is probably 25? I am sure they were out of your way in a few seconds. How pissed off do you get when you hit a red light? It is amazing how many people can be so miserable and upset over something so petty. All I'm saying is if this crap really upsets you I think you need to reevaluate your life.

I would have no problem riding over what is on the right side in that pic and neither did two of the guys in that pic. The hazard the guy is pointing to is in the middle of the damn road. He wouldn't have to point at it at all if they weren't riding like weasel felching, cock gobbling assholes. Why couldn't they ride single file on that road and stay to the right like the other two guys?

You ride in a big group all strewn across the road don't you? Come on, we're friends...tell me.



 

You missed the point about registration - take a look at the statement you got from DMV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflicts_involving_Critical_Mass

When Mr./Ms. Affluent has been turned into a pile of ground meat, teeth, hair, and eyeballs with a few spokes sticking out by Farmer John's F250 on some back road all that affluence does not really matter does it?  

All men die, but not all men really live.

John's life will be over as well as he sells his F250 pride and joy to pay his legal bills. He will live in his parents basement or attic for the rest of his miserable life eating Walmart cheetos, mumbling to himself, and posting derp on Arfcom.

This morning blowing through a red light...
The cross street is 4 lanes each way

Dude, they lose like massive energy when they have to stop like a regular vehicle. And, they're only wearing those jerseys because they're utilitarian and they are big fans of those race teams.







 

Heaven forbid...

Today

Those spandex wearing, sissy boys held you up for 20 minutes!  Bastards!