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Posted: 3/31/2017 6:54:15 AM EDT
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In before OP complains that the cup holders in his car can't hold a 44oz slurpee and that powdered doughnut frosting makes it hard to hold the wheel.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 6:55:34 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:03:18 AM EDT
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Who has the right of way? Green bike or blue car?
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:14:00 AM EDT
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I'm an avid cyclist, that being said I have rolled coal on more than a few of those assholes.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:16:33 AM EDT
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I'm an avid cyclist, that being said I have rolled coal on more than a few of those assholes. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:18:29 AM EDT
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And many people think you're a dumbass Physics...it's the LAW |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:19:21 AM EDT
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Huntersville has bike lanes all over the place. Where are the cyclist riding? In the middle of the fucking roadway holding up traffic.
Assholes |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:21:46 AM EDT
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Did you just use rational and GD in the same sentence???
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:24:00 AM EDT
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Does the douchiness double or cancel out in your case? |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:26:56 AM EDT
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Stupid thread is stupid.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:29:57 AM EDT
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The ones with loud pipes are annoying and dress like sissies.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:43:23 AM EDT
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I bike and enjoy it. I also follow the rules of the road. Try riding a bike sometime OP and get off your lazy ass. Those are the ones I have a problem with. Had one killed a few years ago. He apparently pissed off the wrong guy. Ran him over. Never did find the driver responsible |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:50:08 AM EDT
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OP nailed it.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:54:26 AM EDT
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It is unsafe and illegal to ride on the sidewalk. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:57:28 AM EDT
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I love the ones who zoom up to the sidewalk to bypass ref lights and stop signs then get back on the road and hold up traffic until the next light. At the next light they zoom back to the sidewalk and repeat.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:58:00 AM EDT
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It is unsafe and illegal to ride on the sidewalk. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:58:01 AM EDT
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Y. Had one killed a few years ago. He apparently pissed off the wrong guy. Ran him over. Never did find the driver responsible |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 7:59:34 AM EDT
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I've put many miles on bicycle, public roads and off-road. And I'll say I hate the aholes that pack up and ride twisty two lane country roads where you can't see them when you come around a corner.
I went on a nice long motorcycle ride last weekend with the brother in law. We ran across 5 or 6 of these groups, holding up traffic and trying to win Darwin awards. I have loud pipes on my Harley and the brother in laws pipes are even louder. My only regret is that they don't roll coal in addition to the noise as I pull in the clutch and rev the shit out of the bike as I pass them. I've seen a lot of close calls and near head on collisions because of the stupid places they ride. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:00:15 AM EDT
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I have known some people who bicycle. They said the hardest thing about bicycling was telling their parents they were gay.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:01:18 AM EDT
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Armstrong is probably the greatest cyclist that ever lived. His mistake was to win too many times. Those guys who won 100 years ago while smoking and drinking might be better. That said, the idiots who take their rides in matching spandex down a busy street, at rush hour, when there is a perfectly good sidewalk just 36" away, are stupid. Just stupid. pedestrians with earbuds and cyclists are a bad mix as well. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:01:30 AM EDT
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Not all states or towns make it illegal to ride on a sidewalk. Take Texas, for example. In many cases, this is a good thing. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:02:05 AM EDT
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Yes
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:04:02 AM EDT
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It's bad enough driving most days, the last thing a sane person would do is say "yeah, I want to be a slow moving less maneuverable version of a motorbike."
There are roads that are great places to cycle with traffic that suits it. There are roads that are shit places to cycle with traffic that'll fuckin kill you, narrow roads with poor visibility and nowhere for you or a driver to go if one of you goes full retard. Guess which one I see people cycling on 9 times out of 10? |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:10:23 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:12:51 AM EDT
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This thread just reminded me of the fact that I need to get better lights for my bicycle since I ride it to and from the gym at night. I purchased some POS eBay specials just to have the required lighting due to being harassed by my cop neighbor at my old house. It was his recommendation that I just get the POS eBay lights to avoid a potential citation from another officer who may not be as nice as he was.
Now before anyone gets up in arms, the gym is at the entrance to my subdivision, so it's not like I am riding on major roadways with crap lighting. My rear LED can be seen from a long distance but the mount is crap. My front LED barely illuminates the road ahead of me and makes riding in the alleys with no street lights an exercise in using the force. 
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:19:11 AM EDT
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Having been a cyclist for the last 45 plus years I'll say that the vast majority of the ones I know and knew are more likely to be the smartest people you will ever come across.
Doctors, Lawyers, Computer Nerds, Mensa members, STEM grads, etc. I pedaled way out of my league. Even really really smart people do dumb things but I rarely encountered a Macdonalds fry cook in the pack or peloton. They were the ones driving automobiles-usually not very well. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:21:28 AM EDT
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99% of them. If you are one of the 1%, good on you. But the overwhelming majority are shitbags. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:33:01 AM EDT
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That said, the idiots who take their rides in matching spandex down a busy street, at rush hour, when there is a perfectly good sidewalk just 36" away, are stupid. Just stupid. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:38:03 AM EDT
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This thread would be a non issue if everyone exercised their responsibilities with only half as much energy as they use to scream about their rights.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:42:07 AM EDT
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As a cyclist I'd say yes 90% of the time, so take it easy on us guys who are making an effort not to piss you off.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:44:08 AM EDT
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Contrary to ARFCOM popular belief, Texas laws don't apply everywhere. In many cases, this is a good thing. What was your point again? |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:53:57 AM EDT
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I think it's funny how many people seem to take the Lance Armstrong doping deal so personally. Liar, sure, douche bag, maybe, but he completed in the most grueling cycling event on the planet, post cancer and beat all the other guys doping-repeatedly. I'm not a doping advocate by any means. Was the playing field level? Yeah, amongst the top riders at the time it was, because they all doped too. On topic, as a cyclist I hate the entitled asshole riders that don't stop at stops, ride too far into a lane, don't obey laws... JUST AS MUCH as brodozers driving like stupid cunts, college girls driving on cell phones, and motorcyclists that are endangering others (yes, I ride those too). Sorry about your bad day with bikes but the world is full of fucktards |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:57:44 AM EDT
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And just because someone has to do it, there's only 1 person who has been able to use both hands for this photo
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:59:23 AM EDT
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My area of town is full of hipster douches that lazily ride their bikes in the middle of the road intentionally blocking traffic. Why? Because some morons thought it would be a neat experiment to make the bike lane the same as the travel lane to encourage alternative forms of transportation. And these morons don't even use lights half the time at night. I once got t-boned by a bicyclist while I was stopped at a stop sign. He thought I was going to keep going. IT'S A STOP SIGN.
I had a friend once prosecute and convict (at trial) a bicycle DUI. Warmed my heart. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 8:59:40 AM EDT
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SIDEWALK = WALK = BICYCLES STAY THE FUCK OFF OF IT A cyclist is far more dangerous to a pedestrian on the sidewalk than they are to a vehicle. If you can't maneuver your F150 around a skinny dude in spandex on a pedal-bike, you probably shouldn't be driving. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:10:01 AM EDT
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Lol, the outraged liberal-like autistic screeching in this thread is exactly why I just dropped coin on a cycleops indoor trainer. I only ride on the road when PD/SO has it closed for large events like races and charity rides. There are too many distracted snowflakes and unstable lunatics driving to risk riding on the road in small groups.
I'm tempted to buy a gravel or cross bike to get off the pavement, and this thread is why that market segment is growing. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:12:02 AM EDT
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There won't ever be a rational gd thread about cyclists. Anyone who suggests that cyclists are assholes is a fat, brain dead cretin who is too lazy to ride. 
Cyclists are all arrogant assholes who make up their own rules... 
Nope, no room for rational discussion with this topic. 
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:12:53 AM EDT
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Having been a cyclist for the last 45 plus years I'll say that the vast majority of the ones I know and knew are more likely to be the smartest people you will ever come across. Doctors, Lawyers, Computer Nerds, Mensa members, STEM grads, etc. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:15:08 AM EDT
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Honestly, I could give a fuck about them in the city. The assholes are the ones that come out in the country and ride on the 55mph 2 lanes. There are perfectly good bike trails in the suburbs and these dickbags come out here and ride in packs. More than once I've come up over a hill and had to slam on my brakes because they are taking up a full lane doing less than a tenth of the speed limit. I live in "Outer Suburbia" not quite the "Country" but theres serious distance between houses here aside from the encroaching developments. Speed Limit is 55, Cyclist biking dead center of the lane, sometimes two abreast in a pack at the blistering speed of 15mph. Go back to the City you snowflakes. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:16:00 AM EDT
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Honestly, I could give a fuck about them in the city. The assholes are the ones that come out in the country and ride on the 55mph 2 lanes. There are perfectly good bike trails in the suburbs and these dickbags come out here and ride in packs. More than once I've come up over a hill and had to slam on my brakes because they are taking up a full lane doing less than a tenth of the speed limit.
I hate entitlement mentality in all of its forms. Take responsibility for your OWN safety. 
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:16:48 AM EDT
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It is unsafe and illegal to ride on the sidewalk. 
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:16:52 AM EDT
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Having been a cyclist for the last 45 plus years I'll say that the vast majority of the ones I know and knew are more likely to be the smartest people you will ever come across. Doctors, Lawyers, Computer Nerds, Mensa members, STEM grads, etc. I pedaled way out of my league. Even really really smart people do dumb things but I rarely encountered a Macdonalds fry cook in the pack or peloton. They were the ones driving automobiles-usually not very well. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:17:59 AM EDT
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This. A cyclist is far more dangerous to a pedestrian on the sidewalk than they are to a vehicle. If you can't maneuver your F150 around a skinny dude in spandex on a pedal-bike, you probably shouldn't be driving. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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SIDEWALK = WALK = BICYCLES STAY THE FUCK OFF OF IT A cyclist is far more dangerous to a pedestrian on the sidewalk than they are to a vehicle. If you can't maneuver your F150 around a skinny dude in spandex on a pedal-bike, you probably shouldn't be driving. I disdain cyclists who intentionally crowd the road. I keep my cycling out of the city. Fortunately, I live out in the sticks where there are an abundance of lightly traveled roads. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:19:11 AM EDT
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Why anyone would want to ride their bike on the street is beyond me. People hate that you are there and you have no way to protect yourself from crazy and distracted drivers. Get a Mtn bike, ride in the woods. On days were the trails aren't rideable, there are always rails to trails, the beach or paved paths. Sure its boring as hell, but so is sitting in the hospital after being run over on the street
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:19:27 AM EDT
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This thread would be a non issue if everyone exercised their responsibilities with only half as much energy as they use to scream about their rights.
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:19:33 AM EDT
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99% of them. If you are one of the 1%, good on you. But the overwhelming majority are shitbags. 
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:23:56 AM EDT
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I had my SUV broad-sided by one on Wednesday. I was making a lawful right turn, and a cyclist who had been riding on the sidewalk (illegal at that particular location) rode into the street in the face of a steady DON'T WALK signal, thinking that the green traffic light that gave me the ROW entitled him to ride into the cross walk (it didn't.)
LEOs were summoned. Harsh words were said. No citations were issued. I have some paint transfer on my right side doors (his handlebars are painted white, with latex paint fortunately.) So yes, some of them are mentally defective. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:25:14 AM EDT
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I think it's funny how many people seem to take the Lance Armstrong doping deal so personally. Liar, sure, douche bag, maybe, but he completed in the most grueling cycling event on the planet, post cancer and beat all the other guys doping-repeatedly. I'm not a doping advocate by any means. Was the playing field level? Yeah, amongst the top riders at the time it was, because they all doped too. Was tactically the best. Doped the best. I don't really care. Was awesome to watch him beat all the other dopers. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:26:39 AM EDT
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Defective? I don't think so. Entitled? Absolutely.
At least for street cyclists. The ones who believe they have the same rights, but not responsibilities, as cars irritate the hell out of me. Even when I commuted on a motorcycle I was taught that I am not a car. I could easily blow the doors off of most cars but they would always win in a collision. Now take away the speed advantage, and you get the road going cyclist, teeming with impotent rage. |
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Posted: 3/31/2017 9:33:12 AM EDT
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I think it's funny how many people seem to take the Lance Armstrong doping deal so personally. Liar, sure, douche bag, maybe, but he completed in the most grueling cycling event on the planet, post cancer and beat all the other guys doping-repeatedly. I'm not a doping advocate by any means. Was the playing field level? Yeah, amongst the top riders at the time it was, because they all doped too. When all it is is saving you blood, oxygenating it and re injecting it into you body at a later time. They act like they are mixing steroids and speed into it by calling it "doping"" So feels Much drugs Poor children |
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