They have no sense of distance, like bicyclists. I've had more than a few spandex fags get on me about muh 3ft of safe space. Look dumbass, you're on your bike centered in a 4ft bike lane. I'm in a 12ft wide car lane, driving a truck that's about 7ft wide. I don't need to leave my fucking lane to pass you and give you 3ft of clearance! There's at least 1.5ft in the bike lane and even if I stay centered in my lane, there's 2.5ft from my vehicle to the bike lane! 4 fucking feet! Not 3ft required by law! Besides, spandex pansy, I moved to left a little, so there's actually more like 6 fucking feet!
I hate those fucking assholes with a passion. My city has been removing perfectly good car lanes and setting up bike lanes. For what? It's Houston, 90% of people do not bike to work, much less have showering facilities at work. It's all a leftist virtual signal.
We have a crazy lady in town I've had the displeasure to encounter a few times. She's older, dressed head to toe in biking gear and more than likely a leftist. There are bike lanes both directions on the shoulder, the car lanes weren't shrunk. This old bitch rides in the opposite lane, against traffic, right on the fucking white line! As cars approach, she screams, get out of my way, give me room, 3ft you're breaking the law! She's certifiably batshit crazy.
This old bitch rides in the opposite lane, against traffic, right on the fucking white line!
I'm a bicyclist and I'll agree that she's a buffoon.
If there's a bike lane on the road, you ride in it -- 90% of roads don't have them, so when there is one, everybody knows where they have to go; bikes over here, cars over there. And you ride with traffic.
Let me sticking up for cyclists in general, though: those of us who are partially blind and cannot drive need our bicycles, particularly in cities that don't have good transit. Two generations ago we could take the streetcar to work, but the automobile industry ruined that for us.
So what happens is that we have to move to big cities, where everyone is a lunatic leftist busybody and then we become outcasts because of our conservative political views.
I wish I could go live in a small town because I like small town values. But everything there is designed for cars.
Many people ride sensibly, I just seem to attract the goofs. More than likely due to my ability to have a sense of awareness about the space I occupy. For example, even in my full size truck, I can turn left without swinging into the far right lane. Heck, back in the old days, huge 3 ton land yachts were able to turn at an intersection simultaneously if they were coming from opposite directions. One guy would turn left into the left lane, one guy would turn right into the right lane. Nowadays the smallest shitbox cars, the guy making the left ends up in the right lane and the guy turning right ends up in the left lane.
People are too preoccupied with their phones today, it was so much easier to drive before the iPhone was released.
About the city and biking. I live rurally, just a few miles outside if a small town. I definitely need to drive to go anywhere, but I've found that once in town, I have no need to leave essentially a 3 mile radius. I could actually have no vehicle and walk everywhere. It's also worth mentioning that there are A LOT of seniors around town and towns similar in the area. It's basically like living in a retirement community, but still plenty of amenities for middle age goofs like me. Add in online ordering and I have no idea why the city attracts older people, unless they're socialites into the museums, plays, etc.
Yet these same fuckers think nothing of cycling right up on a horse -- and being on the horse trails in the first place...that we built expressly after the cyclists' demand that horses be banned from the trails because cyclists could get hurt...
I used to love riding my bike...until I met bike riders.
I like to ride my bike, but I do so sensibly and I avoid vehicles. I also ride motorcycles and am very aware of my surroundings in traffic. It is my responsibility to be careful about my activities and keep myself from getting hurt. This includes anticipating what others are going to do and always having a plan. However, a lot of these bicyclists seem to believe that muh 3ft spacing is everyone else's responsibility but their own. Like their immune from doing anything wrong.
Yes, and that's why I hate their guts. Plus they're always whinging about more money being spent to make more and better bike trails for them, and exclusively for them -- I've seen them berate people for walking on the paths...well, those are taxpayers, they paid for them, and the traffic isn't so heavy that they pose a problem.
Gah, they're entitled fuckers. (and yes, they ruin it for people who might not be that way)
The city/state can pass all the laws it likes regarding cyclists' safety; in practice the laws of physics apply first. Nothing wrong with you not wanting to be the squishiest part of the bike+car equation. Wish more cyclists figured that out.
I think riding a bike is dangerous as hell, especially with cars around. I'd never chance that. But more power to you, you obviously have more balls than me in this situation.
Honestly I think most people give bicyclists wide berth because they're worried about hitting someone who randomly falls over and/or wipes out. I wasn't aware there was a "standard".
It may differ from place to place. Around here, usually when the bike lane starts, there's a sign with a picture of a car and a bike with 3ft between. Here's a picture.
Exactly, nobody is out to kill pedestrians. Where I get confronted by the spandex goofs is like a 30mph 2 lane and traffic is coming the opposite direction, or a 4 lane with traffic to my left. I can only move over so far and I'm at least doubling the space required by law. Yet they come up screaming about muh 3ft before they run the red light. Smdh! These are adults, on $5k bikes and $2k worth of spandex, not some 10 year old on a BMX bike wobbling down the bike lane.
They have no sense of distance, like bicyclists. I've had more than a few spandex fags get on me about muh 3ft of safe space. Look dumbass, you're on your bike centered in a 4ft bike lane. I'm in a 12ft wide car lane, driving a truck that's about 7ft wide. I don't need to leave my fucking lane to pass you and give you 3ft of clearance! There's at least 1.5ft in the bike lane and even if I stay centered in my lane, there's 2.5ft from my vehicle to the bike lane! 4 fucking feet! Not 3ft required by law! Besides, spandex pansy, I moved to left a little, so there's actually more like 6 fucking feet!
I hate those fucking assholes with a passion. My city has been removing perfectly good car lanes and setting up bike lanes. For what? It's Houston, 90% of people do not bike to work, much less have showering facilities at work. It's all a leftist virtual signal.
We have a crazy lady in town I've had the displeasure to encounter a few times. She's older, dressed head to toe in biking gear and more than likely a leftist. There are bike lanes both directions on the shoulder, the car lanes weren't shrunk. This old bitch rides in the opposite lane, against traffic, right on the fucking white line! As cars approach, she screams, get out of my way, give me room, 3ft you're breaking the law! She's certifiably batshit crazy.
I'm a bicyclist and I'll agree that she's a buffoon.
If there's a bike lane on the road, you ride in it -- 90% of roads don't have them, so when there is one, everybody knows where they have to go; bikes over here, cars over there. And you ride with traffic.
Let me sticking up for cyclists in general, though: those of us who are partially blind and cannot drive need our bicycles, particularly in cities that don't have good transit. Two generations ago we could take the streetcar to work, but the automobile industry ruined that for us.
So what happens is that we have to move to big cities, where everyone is a lunatic leftist busybody and then we become outcasts because of our conservative political views.
I wish I could go live in a small town because I like small town values. But everything there is designed for cars.
Many people ride sensibly, I just seem to attract the goofs. More than likely due to my ability to have a sense of awareness about the space I occupy. For example, even in my full size truck, I can turn left without swinging into the far right lane. Heck, back in the old days, huge 3 ton land yachts were able to turn at an intersection simultaneously if they were coming from opposite directions. One guy would turn left into the left lane, one guy would turn right into the right lane. Nowadays the smallest shitbox cars, the guy making the left ends up in the right lane and the guy turning right ends up in the left lane.
People are too preoccupied with their phones today, it was so much easier to drive before the iPhone was released.
About the city and biking. I live rurally, just a few miles outside if a small town. I definitely need to drive to go anywhere, but I've found that once in town, I have no need to leave essentially a 3 mile radius. I could actually have no vehicle and walk everywhere. It's also worth mentioning that there are A LOT of seniors around town and towns similar in the area. It's basically like living in a retirement community, but still plenty of amenities for middle age goofs like me. Add in online ordering and I have no idea why the city attracts older people, unless they're socialites into the museums, plays, etc.
California exports
To make driving a car inconvenient. Can't have the people freely travelling you know
Yet these same fuckers think nothing of cycling right up on a horse -- and being on the horse trails in the first place...that we built expressly after the cyclists' demand that horses be banned from the trails because cyclists could get hurt... I used to love riding my bike...until I met bike riders.
I like to ride my bike, but I do so sensibly and I avoid vehicles. I also ride motorcycles and am very aware of my surroundings in traffic. It is my responsibility to be careful about my activities and keep myself from getting hurt. This includes anticipating what others are going to do and always having a plan. However, a lot of these bicyclists seem to believe that muh 3ft spacing is everyone else's responsibility but their own. Like their immune from doing anything wrong.
Yes, and that's why I hate their guts. Plus they're always whinging about more money being spent to make more and better bike trails for them, and exclusively for them -- I've seen them berate people for walking on the paths...well, those are taxpayers, they paid for them, and the traffic isn't so heavy that they pose a problem. Gah, they're entitled fuckers. (and yes, they ruin it for people who might not be that way)
The city/state can pass all the laws it likes regarding cyclists' safety; in practice the laws of physics apply first. Nothing wrong with you not wanting to be the squishiest part of the bike+car equation. Wish more cyclists figured that out.
They are in charge, you adapt to them!
I think riding a bike is dangerous as hell, especially with cars around. I'd never chance that. But more power to you, you obviously have more balls than me in this situation.
Honestly I think most people give bicyclists wide berth because they're worried about hitting someone who randomly falls over and/or wipes out. I wasn't aware there was a "standard".
It may differ from place to place. Around here, usually when the bike lane starts, there's a sign with a picture of a car and a bike with 3ft between. Here's a picture.
https://images.app.goo.gl/c3ixSDmvmJxPh9CR8
Ah, gotcha. I don't know whether there's an "official" rule where I live or not. Just that everyone does it anyway.
Exactly, nobody is out to kill pedestrians. Where I get confronted by the spandex goofs is like a 30mph 2 lane and traffic is coming the opposite direction, or a 4 lane with traffic to my left. I can only move over so far and I'm at least doubling the space required by law. Yet they come up screaming about muh 3ft before they run the red light. Smdh! These are adults, on $5k bikes and $2k worth of spandex, not some 10 year old on a BMX bike wobbling down the bike lane.