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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.

That drives me nuts too, Thankfully in my city they have begun putting those little bike paths in and people use them. Its one thing when they are biking in traffic and going the speed in traffic and biking in traffic like a wiggly worm making it impossible to pass them

Original Post by schnooder:

That drives me nuts too, Thankfully in my city they have begun putting those little bike paths in and people use them. Its one thing when they are biking in traffic and going the speed in traffic and biking in traffic like a wiggly worm making it impossible to pass them

I wish those were on every street, but then then all I'd have to post about is how I long to be gmule in spandex.

Original Post by gmule:

Sorry your offended by the human body and are intimidated by those of us that have good enough bodies to wear spandex.

Yes, because spandex is never awkward.

oh my god

I shall never think of the Polish cycling team quite the same way, ever again.... That picture almost made me spit milk through my nose....

Holy junk baskets! 

And I was just going to post my complaint about being a pedestrian and almost getting demolished by cyclists.  Many, many occasions.  So boring in comparison.

All I can say is is that if I ever meet any of you on the road and you act agressive towards me by buzzing me,thowing stuff at me or any other harrasment be prepared. You will remember the encounter that is for sure.

Sorry if this is redundant, I didn't read through all six pages, but...why do they have to flout all the laws of god and man AND refuse to wear a helmet? Do they figure it doesn't effect anyone else if they die? The courts don't care WHAT a cyclist does- if one gets killed by a motorist it's all over for that motorist.  And by the way, I totally don't want to scrape their brains off my car.  Wear helmets, morons!!

Original Post by gmule:

All I can say is is that if I ever meet any of you on the road and you act agressive towards me by buzzing me,thowing stuff at me or any other harrasment be prepared. You will remember the encounter that is for sure.

I would never intentionally put someone in danger, but if I decided to what exactly would you do? Snap your spandex at me?

Depending on the situation it could be a squirt from a water bottle to a broken windsheild or some pepper spray to your face. maybe even a slashed tire while you sit at the light. I have rode way to long to put up with crap from road raged car drivers. I am not the only cyclist that feels this way and many will defend themselves. You might think you are safe in your tin can at a stop light but your not.

Ok tough guy.

Original Post by p0nda:

Yes, because spandex is never awkward.

 Holy nutballs Batman

Good lord. Testosterone anyone? There's plenty to go around in here.

In my years of I riding I have been run off the road, I have been physically assulted, spit on, cussed at , and have had bottles and other trash thrown while riding. I used to try the smile and wave and that doesn't work.

I also ride with a helmet mounted video camera. Makes for a nice video when the cops give you a nice ticket for assult or careless driving.

I have provided the police with enough evidence in 2 instances for convictions.

Original Post by p0nda:

Yes, because spandex is never awkward.

 God, this is still funny the second time.  Where did you find this p0nda?

Original Post by bettypage4:

 God, this is still funny the second time.  Where did you find this p0nda?

It was in one of those random emails you get over the years. Some of them are keepers -  the Polish cycle team in form fitting spandex is one of them.

@114, I've been riding a bicycle for nearly 20 years. I've never been run off the road, physically assaulted (or even threatened), spit on, cursed at, or had anything thrown at me in all that time. There is a time when you have to sit down and think "perhaps they aren't the problem after all".

I am glad you have never experienced those situations.

Most of this stuff happens at night when I ride.

Original Post by dcyounts:

Original Post by gmule:

 

I 'm not buying the argument that if cyclists are seen breaking the law drivers will feel it's acceptable to drive dangerously. If we follow this to extremes does that mean the next time I see someone letting their dog foul on the pavement I should run their dog over?    

 

 

Hahaha... nooo it's not like that.

BUT, if I'm doing 45 and a cyclists pops in front of me through a stop-sign I'm not swerving off the road into a tree to avoid him.

*meant to be lighthearted... i wouldn't hurt a cyclists even though they do annoy me sometimes*

 I have to agree with dcy on this, as I believe it here in the UK if you deliberately leave your lane to avoid hitting something and you cause an accident as a result you are the guilty party...even if it was a cyclist.

I had an incident just this morning I was in town on a one way street but which had two lines of traffic one for turning left/one right. Anyway as I made my way along the street heading to the lights on a corner a lady comes round it on a bicycle the wrong way.....I had moving traffic on my right and a pavement full of pedestrians on my left......there was nothing I could do except slow down....the cyclist on the other hand realising there wasn't enough room for me to pass her without hitting her, swerved up onto the pavement, caused two pedestrians to jump out the road and she went straight into the wall of a shop (she had no safety gear on)! people walking went to help her, think she did hurt herself a little.....no sympathy at all...

what the hell was she doing going up a one way street the wrong way for anyway?........because she was a cyclist and thought she'd get away with it!...

Oh hey, guess what I just saw this morning? You got it, a cyclists breaking several traffic laws and mucking up traffic.

Four lane road, speed limit 45mph with cyclists down the middle of one lane. OK, traffic was light so no big deal. That was until we hit the red light and he did the most amazing thing. He cut through all four lanes of traffic AND a turn lane to make a left turn, bolted through the red light and causing oncoming traffic to slam on their breaks.

Stealing someone else's idea, here's a beautiful MS Paint

 

This thread is hilarious, we also have a Tour de France in Charleston. I don't know why they can't ride single file?!