This looks like the bike wanted to hit the car turning. He had plenty of time to stop, unless he was exceeding the speed limit, or riding while distracted.
ht/ illustr8r (who likes to tweak me with these bike threads!)
Guy writes editorial calling bike lanes unsafe.
Bikers love to rage against drivers, especially SUVs.
I think it has something to do with those spandex leggings squeezing their balls.
What is some clown doing in an urban setting recording his trip on a GoPro? I thought those were for filming daredevil stunts.
The guy was most likely trolling for trouble and insurance money.
🙄
I think he looks for trouble…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hBr6tuzqhI
Take that you pompous-assed bike-ist!
It’s all part of the
IIIII’VE GOT RIIIIGHT OF WAY
Syndrome.
I LOVE biking, I hate some bikers
(caveat: most bikers around Washington, D.C. are a§$h*les, down here in FL, they’re more reasonable…much less aggressive)
When you’re in a situation where the road signage isn’t clear, or missing, you should always yield to the heavier vehicle.
No matter what- Bicyclist should have slown down, and the kid shouldn’t have been on the phone.
Now, let’s sue the city!
Way too fast for a bike in an area where vehicles can turn in front of you. And that dickhead knows it too. The guy’s an idiot.
I used to ride a 10 speed from 3rd & Vermont to Los Angeles city hall garage when I was 17 (beats taking the bus) and learned very soon to stay the f*ck out of the way of any kind of vehicle – give them the right of way. Especially those damn RTD buses!
Go to the link.
Even in the Peo. Rep. of Seattle,
it seems about 50% (if not more)
are fed up with little prick bikers like this guy.
Yay!
If that guy’s reactions are that slow, he shouldn’t be riding a bicycle, he should be riding the bus! He was looking right at the SUV turning, and he ran right into it! He should’ve slowed way down (if not stopped, completely), ceded his right of way to the 3-ton vehicle, and taken evasive action to avoid the collision, if necessary. It looked almost intentional, like he was trying to make a point.
I hate to admit it, but I instinctively cheered the SUV driver for thinking quickly enough to lay tracks, avoid identification, avoid a lecture from the bicyclist, and avoid the likely lawsuit. My instinct would’ve been to stop, make sure the idiot was okay, and then pay for my concern and my law-abiding nature for the next several years in a lawyer’s office and a courtroom, because the self-righteous prick is on a mission to make car drivers miserable.
Watch it frame by frame right before he runs into the SUV.
The SUV turns hard left in an attempt to avoid him, in fact turns so hard left, it needs to turn right again to stay on the road.
BUT! You can see the driver when the bike hit the SUV… She was looking AT HER PHONE when the collision occurred, not the road or the biker, with one hand on the wheel.
One more observation – – as a motorcyclist and an ocational bicyclist I learned a looong time ago to ride like I’m invisible. A big problem for motorcycles is lack of visibility. About 35 years ago it was made mandatory to have the headlight always on to battle the problem to help drivers see us.
The bicycle is smaller, and now more prevalent, making the problem of being smaller even bigger.
Also, where I live, the bicycle paths have stop signs for intersections, but they seem to be totally optional since you rarely see anyone stopping for them! What bugs me is that if you hit one that doesn’t stop you’ll be the bad guy!
There are always some nuggets of info in the video comments and or google searching the players to see if you can find anything.
So, from the comments section on the video, the guy in the SUV was on the phone. Here’s a screen grab:
http://i.imgur.com/sccRR5L.jpg
That being said, IMHO the biker was going waaay to fast and not being cautious.
Then I did a little google search of Trip Volpe, you can too. I wanted to see what he was all about and I found this comment on a website called “the Stranger”
The article is here
http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/10/27/spotted-in-ballard&view=comments#20907893
To which Volpe wrote……..
Trip Volpe commented on Spotted in Ballard.
I am usually all on board with The Stranger’s voting endorsements, but this is one they can keep. As a liberal, socialist-voting gay suburbanite whose right to bear arms will not be fucked with, I will be re-upping my NRA membership and voting straight Republican if 594 passes. Yeah, they’re crazy, and I don’t like them either. Stop making me get in bed with them, they smell weird and never call.
(For the record I’m not against background checks — but in addition to being too broadly written, 594 is an unfunded mandate. If you want a background check law to make a difference, you also need to open NICS to the public, not just FFL holders.)
Interesting combination I might say.
Good find, Irish.
Two things I see in that picture:
1- Road Work Ahead sign, and the guy is hauling ass right for it.
2- You can see in the paint reflection that the guy on the bike is turning right – moving in the same direction as the vehicle instead of turning left to avoid it.
It looks intentional. Of course the driver is screwed for being on the phone. The fag will probably get his law suit money.
As soon as that video started, my first through was this guy is going waaay too fast. These urban bike lanes are a fucking joke but cyclists act as though they’ve been conferred with some kind of invulnerability by riding in them.
As others have said, when you’re on a bicycle, ride as though you’re invisible and yield to cars or buses-WTF is so hard about that? Maybe it was the years I spent riding a motorcycle but I’ve never had a bicycle accident(knock on wood) because my head is in the game.
When I lived in Denver, man I hated when I had to ride on the street to get to my bike paths. The best part of living there was I could throw my mountain bike in my truck and in 30 or 40 minutes I could be in the middle of no where in the mountains. No such deal now here in w Texas.
a. Hopefully the biker sustained lasting injuries.
b. Hopefully the phone-using driver’s insurance rates soar.
They’re BOTH the type of assholes we need to get off our streets.
Why? As a bicyclist, you don’t pay road use taxes, your bicycle isn’t registered, and it’s not insured in the way other motor vehicles are. The driver of the SUV knows damn well that the Seattle libtards will chew him up and spit him out so he did the right thing — get the hell away from the scene.
I think bicycles should be registered like motorcycles and I also think that bicyclists should have to have the same driver licence that motorcyclists get. And they should be required to get motor vehicle insurance too.
A while ago, I was driving home from work on a road WAY too narrow for bicycles to use (no shoulder on either side) but this douchebag was riding there anyway. A car was in front of me and was able to pass the douche by taking up 3/4 of the other lane but I chose to wait because the road was going to widen shortly. So I slowed down and waited. At the point the road widened, another car was coming from the other direction so I just figured it was safe to pass on the now wider road. He could easily have moved to his right, which he started to do but then swerved back left. The fucking asshole deked me and there was no way to avoid him. He actually hit my car and yelled and cursed. Fuck him. I kept on driving.
Hee!
We were driving home on a narrow road when we came upon a bike nerd. DH gunned the truck which is LOUD and got around him in the other lane. It was on a curve and another car came around the bend just as we got back over.
I’ve been waiting for a letter or something saying he crowded the turd!
I can’t stand bicycles. Most are losers.
Balls? Nah… most of them are beta males and thus, have no functioning ‘nads.
I love the idiots you see on the narrow mountain roads in New Mexico, pedaling in 57th gear, going two miles an hour, with like 184 cars, trucks, SUVs, ‘bamblances, jitneys, ox-carts, campers, motor-homes, ladies pushing strollers, armadillos and 1985 Toyota Corollas backed up seven miles trying to pass.
An old feller up in Red River New Mexico, who goes by the name of Red River Red, drives an old Dodge pick-up. He has four bicycle silhouettes painted just under the well-worn window sill on the driver’s side, in fighter-pilot victory tally fashion.
He’s a real funny old codger, a veritable raconteur, and when asked if the symbols are for real encounters, Red smiles, spits a stream of tobacco juice on the ground close to your feet and says, “Mebbe.”
You don’t like biker boys Big Fur Hat? Just watch this and you’ll forget all about them for awhile!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqVgtLQ7qM
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No need to thank me, just enjoy!
Something the cyclists around here do that is both illegal and dangerous – they only stop for stop signs if they are forced to.
At the local lake, I’ve been cat-called about driving a vehicle when they are on a bike and I’m trying to get past their almost-walking-speed riding. This on a two lane road around the lake while they are NOT using the bike path that was made for them.
Sure, I’m a bad guy for driving – like you never use an engine anymore? BS. I’m on my way to a sailboat race with all the relevant accoutrements in the truck and you’re just a smug asshole no better than the next one.
Get off the only pavement I’m allowed to drive on and get on the damn bike path made for a-holes like yourself.