22 Comments on Just Shut Up and Ride Your Bike!

  4. To be serious for a moment, IMO the single most significant factor in the cultural conflict between motor drivers and street bicyclists is being ignored.

    The fact is, the streets and roadways were planned, designed, and built solely with motor vehicles in mind. Until relatively recently (one generation or so), U.S. roads were built for cars and trucks¹.

    And then more and more bicycles showed up. The looked around, said “this sux”, and started lobbying. What they got was mostly new laws saying that the bikers had as much right to the roadways as motor vehicles².

    Why this has made things worse rather than better is that the roads are still designed and built for motor vehicles, and motor vehicles plus bicycles on the same roadways simply doesn’t work well. Cars and trucks are slowed and impeded, and cyclists are honked at, sworn at, brushed into the bushes, injured, sometimes killed.

    Thinking that enacting laws will fix this is stupid. It is basically magical thinking. I don’t pretend I know what the solution is until we all have flying cars.

    1. Yes, motorcycles are motor vehicles, but for road planning they don’t count. Argue all you want that they should count, but be honest with yourself: they don’t.

    2. And of course the pushy left-leaning cyclists took advantage of this and went out of their way to do everything they could think of to show their contempt for drivers. They’re a minority, but they’re so obnoxious and antisocial that it seems like most of them are shits.

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  7. Biden to his SS guy: Find out where her bicycle is.

    SS Guy: Yes, sir.

    SS Guy to another SS Guy: Why is he interested in her bicycle?

    Other SS Guy: Don’t ask why, just do it.

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  10. Said it before, I’ll say it again;
    Bicycles and motorized vehicles DO NOT mix.

    These liberal psychotic bicycle asswipes are trying to skate off the back of those that have paid and continue to pay taxes for the upkeep of our roadways while they contribute NOTHING and seldom adhere to the ‘rules of the road’.

    Yes, they contribute when they operate their motorized vehicle but that has NOTHING to do with their operation of a bicycle which is completely in opposition to the safety of motorized vehicles.

    I’m trying NOT to paint with a broad brush, there are some bicyclists that are very considerate BUT, the majority are total ASSHOLES.

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  14. Some additional steps to be taken
    1. Require a drivers license
    2. Require a vehicle registration like all other vehicles
    3. Require an annual safety inspection like all other vehicles in Pa.
    4. Require an annual emissions test since said riders emit significant levels
    of CO2 with every exhalation and significant levels of methane with every
    fart
    5. Finally and most important in her case require that combined weight of bike
    and rider is below the maximum allowable limit

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  17. I have no idea why, but a sizable percentage of bicyclists are assholes. Not to mention ridiculous looking with their padded spandex bicyclist shorts, spandex jerseys and gay looking bicyclist shoes. (I get it, this is useful equipment – but still ridiculous looking).

    I lived in the foothill area of Orange County. Particularly on weekends, packs of bicyclists would take up an entire lane or more (sometimes both lanes) of the road, which had hills and curves, and frequently they were difficult to see when rounding a curve or cresting a hill. This was particularly egregious in areas where there were segregated paved bicyclist paths, but they still clogged the road. I’m still amazed that more bicyclists weren’t injured or killed by motorists, and when you came up on them it was more likely than not that the motorist would be sworn at and/or flipped off. Not to mention that you couldn’t pass them because, you know, hills and curves.

    Bicycling is good exercise. But I never had the problem of obnoxious people at the gym – the attitude was “if you want to get in shape, this is where you belong.”

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  18. She probably didn’t mention that she was in the middle of the lane. Oh well. That’s what she gets for being in such a MAGA city.

    If you took out the number of times she said “conversation” or went “um,” that video would be about 25% as long.

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  19. She was called fat, so she stopped riding her bike? Why didn’t she stop eating?

    On a related note – we have a serious “homeless guy on bike” problem where I live. I don’t harbor any ill-will toward the homeless, but these fuckers weave in and out of traffic and fly off the sidewalks into the busy roadways. If you work late hours as I currently do, you often encounter the homeless “night crew” walking with a bike on the side of the road, not on the sidewalk that is 5-feet away, and always in the poorest-lit areas.

    Don’t get me started on the e-bikes that are everywhere now.

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