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I hope your bikes melt down and your little helmets crack and and you lose a bike seat up your butt.

Do you ride on the bike path RIGHT NEXT TO THE STREET? HELL NO! You ride right in the street and hold up traffic.

Do you ride single file as traffic goes by? HELL NO! You ride in pairs while blocking traffic and we're all at your mercy driving at bicycle speed for miles on end.

Do you ride in a responsible manner? HELL NO! You cry that you have just as much right to the street as I do in my car yet you run EVERY SINGLE stop sign, turn without signaling and whatever illegal maneuvers you can think up while wearing a Doritos branded spandex team shirt.

I seriously hate cyclists so much.

This has nothing to do with the topic, but the title totally put Christopher Guest in my head saying, "I hate you, and I hate your ASS FACE!"

Sorry ... back to your topic now.  :-)

Original Post by spirochete:

They are riding for sport, not to get from point A to point B.  That would make as much sense as thanking all the guys in the squat racks and all the people doing yoga.

 How do you know they aren't going somewhere?

You're right. A pack of about 40 people wearing corporate sponsored spandex outfits and head to toe biking gear are probably going to the store.

Double post OOPS my rage is taking over.

edit: and furthermore, let's assume all 40 of them are going to the store. Obey the damn laws of the road that you're constantly crying about being entitled to use.

Maybe their going to work at the corporation that supplied them with their bike-gear.

Maybe you're one of them.

Maybe they are banding together and intentionally disobeying the traffic rules in order to get your attention.  And how could a pack of cyclist 40 strong ride on a bike path?  That would be like doing curls in a squat rack.

Well trhawley, if the 40 of them want to ride as a little Dorito/Tide/Snapple army, I'm sure they can ride single file and stop at the signs like the rest of us.

or squats in a curl rack...

bikers - don't be morons (car vs bike, the car always wins)

drivers - don't use bikers as target practice

Original Post by spirochete:

You're right. A pack of about 40 people wearing corporate sponsored spandex outfits and head to toe biking gear are probably going to the store.

 .......smoking.....

Hey spiro I know what you're dealing with.

I live in the country, not the suburbs "the hi all my neighbors are farmers" country. A housing development went up in an old cornfield about two miles away from my street about 3 years ago.

Now these packs of bikes (many more than 40 in any given day) and some pretty selfish attitudes swarm my back country road like a biblical plague.

They speak loud, hog the entire road, yell over the fences at dogs barking from their own yard.

All of them look & act like they're training for the Tour de Dork and are quite snotty at those of us who actually live here and would like some peace and access to our own driveways without pulling a pit maneuver.

I have nothing against the sport per say and some of the folks are courteous, but they are few and far between.

She's not talking about Critical Mass.   She's talking about the Spandex Brigade.  I'm happy that she clarified because they are another monster  from us commuters.  I ride for sport and transportation.  When my husband has the car and the kid, I ride the bike for transportation.  

Here in Tucson, the Spandex Brigade is  much more sparse and they usually only travel in very small groups (2-4) and I rarely see them go two-abreast.  And they're usually riding to breakfast.  It's a rougher town and motorists are known to be carrying guns. 

My brother used to ride with a club about 20 years ago in California and their destinations were restaurants (in other counties). 

Original Post by bagga:

I live in the country, not the suburbs "the hi all my neighbors are farmers" country. 

Do you have the same problem with tractors that take up most of the road and don't go anywhere near the speed limit?

I guess I could have clarified which people on bicycles I actually mean but this topic fills me with such rage and unclean thoughts that I black out and wake up to a litter of posts that I made on the subject

He, he...Yes, but only during the plant and harvest.

They also plow the roads in winter and are quite a bit more entertaining at town hall meetings than these cycling city imports and their sidewalk suburban view on issues.

santonacci - yeah, but at least tractors have the orange triangle that indicates that they know they are going too slow.

if I started biking to work, I think I'd buy one of those and tape it to the seat.

Original Post by spirochete:

Well trhawley, if the 40 of them want to ride as a little Dorito/Tide/Snapple army, I'm sure they can ride single file and stop at the signs like the rest of us.

 If they road single file, and stopped at all the traffic lights, wouldn't that cause even more delays?  If they went 3 abreast and all stopped at the stop sign they'd be through 3 times faster than if they were single file.

Who cares how fast or how many in the bike group gets through the light. How would that clog regular car traffic?

I don't know if they still do it or not but when I live in Westchester Co., NY they would close a 7 mile stretch of the Bronx River Parkway for 4 hours every sunday during the warm weather months for cyclist to have use of the roadway.  Motorists would have to find alternate routes.  I bet that would really piss you off wouldn't it Spiro.

Original Post by floggingsully:

Original Post by spirochete:

Well trhawley, if the 40 of them want to ride as a little Dorito/Tide/Snapple army, I'm sure they can ride single file and stop at the signs like the rest of us.

 If they road single file, and stopped at all the traffic lights, wouldn't that cause even more delays?  If they went 3 abreast and all stopped at the stop sign they'd be through 3 times faster than if they were single file.

Well that's the law. Obey it or get off the road with your spandex outfits.