I broke the speed limit on my bicycle. I mean yeah, the speed limit was 15, and the motor on my bike tops out at 20, and I had to go looking for a speed limit lower than 25, and I wasn’t pedaling, and the speedometer on my bike said 17.4mph. damn breaking the speed limit on your bike feels really good. I really accomplished something today.
Add one crime to the list. I’ll take the ticket if you want to serve it online police i am proud
Ok but the road is for both bicycles AND cars. These people are breaking the speed limit but that’s not ok for cars? If a car was going up a hill at 5mph, the line of traffic behind them would be irate. Note that the bicyclists regularly run the stop sign halfway down the hill. If bicyclists want to be treated like cars, they should act like it.
This is why bike paths should be as numerous as roads, and just like cars and trains should be separate, never the twain should meet, as should bicycle paths and roads. My city in the US has good bike paths, and I opt for those over the bike lanes almost every day.
i mean, kinda? my city has a couple really good bike paths and most of its roads that have wide rightmost lanes for bikes to ride in and cars can pass safely. I drive across town in 15 minutes. I can bike across town in 20, and that’s taking time to stop for kittens i see on the ride and see if they will come and get scritches. Because how can you see a cute outdoor kitten and not stop and see if it will come up to you for pets and forehead kisses (damn you pavlov). 30 years ago it was not friendly to bicyclists at all and i think the solution was one or two of the city council or the secret town council of elders becoming lycra dudes.
Unless your city only has a couple roads, you need to remove some roads and make them into bicycle and pedestrian thoroughfares. Cars control way too much of our cities, and non drivers have to subsidize both cars and suburbs.
nah, our city isn’t facing the problems where we need to do that. yet. we have a few “downtown” streets we’ve done that on (entirely through the quarantine, just weekends now for the farmer’s market that has grown so large the big park downtown can no longer contain it, which makes me very proud of my town).
most everyone who commutes here, they are commuting far longer than a bicycle can take them and we have been fighting to get regional public transit system connected (that is a billion dollar project though, bigger than my pull which is “hey get this dude some food”)
The car is 2 tons of protective steel. The man on the bicycle is made out of flesh and bones and a little bit of aluminium scaffolding pole, maybe some carbon fiber. One of these is commutiing and not paying attention. The other is engaged in exercise and controlled risk (controlled risk in the same way some people opt to ride motorcycles). I do not begrudge someone working their body in a public space.
They have exactly the same right to be crawling up the hill at 3mph as I do in a crawler gear driving a truck up hill. We’re both holding up traffic, but you don’t get upset at me because my goods vehicle would crush your passenger car like a bug. Why the contradiction?
If you can’t see the difference in potential energy (and potential probability for a fatal outcome) then you’re just as lost.
Kind of a gross generalization.
Neither do I and I never said I did.
Sure, and people would be irritated at that too. Even the bicyclists. No contradiction here.
All I said is that all vehicles on the road are supposed to abide by the same traffic laws. The kamikazes on bikes break the law just as often (sometimes more so) than cars. I wish there was a bike lane there but there isn’t.
Do you even look at your fellow motorists? Its hard to go more than 5 minutes without seeing someone texting and driving.
Then why are you complaining about their legitimate use of the public space we all have an equal right to?
The traffic laws as applied to bicycles are stupid and a result of shite infrastructure that forces them to share the road with cars. And don’t “bUt iTs ThE lAw” me either.
Got it, bicycles deserve access to the roads but don’t have to abide by the same rules. kthxbye.
Motherfucker do your legs have to get your suburban up to 30 again after a red light?
You sure have assumed a lot about me. Read my posts again and think. Until then, we’re done here.
Go grab your plastic wheel and turn it side to side like a big manly man honk honk