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Carpet posted:Why are you only leaving 6 inches when you overtake? See, right here is where things stop being civil. You assume a bit much. But ok, I'll play along. I try to give three feet everywhere it's possible. Very frequently, I'm presented with a dilemma: I can drive left of center to properly overtake a bicycle, but of course I can't do that when there's traffic to my left. So I can either plug along behind the bicyclist at whatever speed they're going waiting for a gap in traffic to my left, or I can go by them staying fully in my lane. What I can't do is somehow make the cyclist realize that scooting over even a foot to their right would make things safer for everyone. Sounding my horn to get the cyclist to move over is not a good idea. "Give them three feet of space" is a pretty wise campaign. It's usually presented in a "cars wrong, bikes right" manner, though. Maybe, if bicyclists have the room, they should recognize the need to keep right. And some off them do, and we all get along better for it.
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:See, right here is where things stop being civil. You assume a bit much. But ok, I'll play along. I try to give three feet everywhere it's possible. Very frequently, I'm presented with a dilemma: I can drive left of center to properly overtake a bicycle, but of course I can't do that when there's traffic to my left. So I can either plug along behind the bicyclist at whatever speed they're going waiting for a gap in traffic to my left, or I can go by them staying fully in my lane. What I can't do is somehow make the cyclist realize that scooting over even a foot to their right would make things safer for everyone. Sounding my horn to get the cyclist to move over is not a good idea. "Give them three feet of space" is a pretty wise campaign. It's usually presented in a "cars wrong, bikes right" manner, though. Maybe, if bicyclists have the room, they should recognize the need to keep right. And some off them do, and we all get along better for it. No, HERE is where it stops being civil: gently caress you.
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Momplestiltskin posted:I bike to work and it's about twice as fast as driving because I can roll by rush hour traffic in the bike lane or bike/bus lane. Also, my job pays a parking stipend that I get to pocket since I don't pay for parking. Also I am in drat good shape from doing this. There are parts of my commute that have no bike lanes, so I ride in the road. I follow the rules. I think the problem is not cyclists, but stupid people. Stupid people do stupid things in cars, and stupid people do stupid things on bikes. It's just more noticeable when they are on bikes because there are a lot more cars than bikes so you're used to seeing cars do stupid poo poo. I have to deal with pedestrians walking right in front of me in the bike lane without looking once, other idiots riding bikes in the bike lane on the wrong side of the road, etc. Basically reserve your hate for stupid people because that is the problem here and nothing else. Welcome to 1.0 of this thread
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Jun 10, 2014 00:26
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Thanks for ruining the planet for all future generations of humanity. Cars are sin.
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Salt Fish posted:Thanks for ruining the planet for all future generations of humanity. Cars are sin. I won't be here. Point?
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Salt Fish posted:Thanks for ruining the planet for all future generations of humanity. Cars are sin. No one cares, hippy.
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azreal posted:No one cares, hippy. You are the lamest cartoon cat. Worse than heathcliff and garfield
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Gutcruncher posted:I like how around here, bike lanes appear ad disappear whenever, and often the bike lane is narrower than a bikes handlebars. Also te drivers around here are blind and/or murderous. Your options on a bike are ride on the road and die or ride on the sidewalk and get screamed at by pedestrians. Around here cars won't outright murder you, so it's more like your options are to ride on the sidewalk and get yelled at by pedestrians or ride in the road and get yelled at by drivers. Hell, parts of town don't even have sidewalks so you have no option but to ride in the road where you're legally supposed to be anyways. Yet drivers will still loving yell at you. But it's pretty funny because I can't hear what they're saying while they're driving too fast past me. So whatever.
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lol op. I'm going to ride right in the middle of the road in front of you, and what are you going to do about it? Honk? lol.
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Jun 10, 2014 00:58
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just stay home you loving cocks
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here in philadelphia we have what is called the philly roll, this is not a california stop oh no it's something else entirely. the philly roll begins at a red light, around or just before (just before can be like, 5 or 10 seconds) the time the opposing light turns yellow. the driver of the car begins to roll into the intersection, intending to accelerate just as his light turns green. not few are the times i have seen the car get all the way through the intersection, rolling at 2 or 3 mph, before the light turns green.
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nomadologique posted:here in philadelphia we have what is called the philly roll, this is not a california stop oh no it's something else entirely. So like a bike?
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keyvin posted:lol op. I'm going to ride right in the middle of the road in front of you, and what are you going to do about it? Honk? lol. Throw my Starbucks at you, then hock a luge.
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I bike to work through the suburbs around here and it's p nice. No one has called me a human being or tried to kill me yet.
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various cheeses posted:I bike to work through the suburbs around here and it's p nice. No one has called me a human being or tried to kill me yet. human being i'll kill u
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:See, right here is where things stop being civil. You assume a bit much. But ok, I'll play along. I try to give three feet everywhere it's possible. Very frequently, I'm presented with a dilemma: I can drive left of center to properly overtake a bicycle, but of course I can't do that when there's traffic to my left. So I can either plug along behind the bicyclist at whatever speed they're going waiting for a gap in traffic to my left, or I can go by them staying fully in my lane. What I can't do is somehow make the cyclist realize that scooting over even a foot to their right would make things safer for everyone. Sounding my horn to get the cyclist to move over is not a good idea. "Give them three feet of space" is a pretty wise campaign. It's usually presented in a "cars wrong, bikes right" manner, though. Maybe, if bicyclists have the room, they should recognize the need to keep right. And some off them do, and we all get along better for it. what sort of hosed up tiny roads do you have that you can't overtake someone when there's traffic in the other lane. you don't have to drive in the other lane to go round someone on a bike path lol do you know what drains are? hemale in pain fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Darth123123 posted:Throw my Starbucks at you, then hock a luge. Ugh it made me so mad that I almost splashed my latte all over him! Then later I cried alone in my bedroom for 4 hours.
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Not Nipsy Russell posted:See, right here is where things stop being civil. You assume a bit much. But ok, I'll play along. I try to give three feet everywhere it's possible. Very frequently, I'm presented with a dilemma: I can drive left of center to properly overtake a bicycle, but of course I can't do that when there's traffic to my left. So I can either plug along behind the bicyclist at whatever speed they're going waiting for a gap in traffic to my left, or I can go by them staying fully in my lane. What I can't do is somehow make the cyclist realize that scooting over even a foot to their right would make things safer for everyone. Sounding my horn to get the cyclist to move over is not a good idea. "Give them three feet of space" is a pretty wise campaign. It's usually presented in a "cars wrong, bikes right" manner, though. Maybe, if bicyclists have the room, they should recognize the need to keep right. And some off them do, and we all get along better for it. really though ride a bike even one time and you'll realize there's all sorts of poo poo with the road condition that drivers never realize because they have gigantic wheels and won't crash and die just because they hit a rock or a ditch or a crack or a hole or some glass or a sewer drain or blah blah blah
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it's always funny when women and manlets try to start poo poo when i'm cycling downtown. a) you aren't going any faster than 15 mph anyway because there are stoplights every block and b) i'm so much bigger and stronger than you. who the hell are you trying to get crazy with, idiot?
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is there such a thing as a womanlet in your cosmology?
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nomadologique posted:is there such a thing as a womanlet in your cosmology?
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I drive and bike  Get rid of on-street parallel parking on small roads, problem solved in a lot of cases. but really yea gently caress stupid people. i've been assigned to a project about an hour away and so i've been driving and i literally see at least one or two potential accidents, sometimes they even happen, everyday. i also see a lot of stupid bikers too that just blow through stops and wrecklessly too my city blocked off most of the residential streets with those 911 vehicles/bikes only which is great as I take those when I bike around. they're usually more scenic and quicker. but there are major roads where they're tiny rear end lanes that constantly squiggle around with no shoulder or one lane with a row of onstreet parallel parking that's always desirable and has at least one person trying to park while onslaught of traffic is getting around them and bikes have to also get around and it's a clusterfuck an it'd really be better if bikes stayed off them since there's plenty of roads running nearby that are only for them 
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Just keep floating down that concrete river in your metal coffins.
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Humans are loving weird about being inconvenienced at all. Like you are in the grocery store and someone is being oblivious and blocking poo poo up for 10 seconds and in your head you are like MOVE YOU loving DUMB IDIOT WHAT THE gently caress. And then when you let humans drive cars it's even worse for some reason. But our lives are otherwise full of all kinds of dumb inefficient poo poo that wastes our time on a way bigger scale and we don't really notice or care. But as soon as a motherfucker is obstructing your forward motion, even if you are controlling that forward motion by slightly moving a single fat and fluid swollen foot, its just instant rage city. I'm not sure what's up with that.
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also BIKE THREAD
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The Butcher posted:Humans are loving weird about being inconvenienced at all. Like you are in the grocery store and someone is being oblivious and blocking poo poo up for 10 seconds and in your head you are like MOVE YOU loving DUMB IDIOT WHAT THE gently caress. And then when you let humans drive cars it's even worse for some reason. because humans are petty and pathetic with no sense of scale for their problems not me, however, for i have reached enlightenment
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The Butcher posted:also BIKE THREAD BIKE THREAD WOOOO LOOK AT MY SEXY rear end BIKE 
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THS posted:because humans are petty and pathetic with no sense of scale for their problems Ah, a fellow rider. I too have tasted the forbidden fruit of self sufficient transportation.
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Gutcruncher posted:I like how around here, bike lanes appear ad disappear whenever, and often the bike lane is narrower than a bikes handlebars. Also te drivers around here are blind and/or murderous. Your options on a bike are ride on the road and die or ride on the sidewalk and get screamed at by pedestrians. by "bike lane" do you mean those parking lots with bike symbols on them?
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various cheeses posted:BIKE THREAD WOOOO LOOK AT MY SEXY rear end BIKE Wanna ride that bike.
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how are cyclists both the biggest assholes on the road and the biggest pieces of poo poo on it because this is really ruining my ability to make metaphors
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here's a handy beginners guide to riding in traffic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0npCFw9TEnA&t=215s
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various cheeses posted:BIKE THREAD WOOOO LOOK AT MY SEXY rear end BIKE them knobblies on the tires are preventing peak gofast
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ASSASSINS! posted:here's a handy beginners guide to riding in traffic. Kill all fixie riders.
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various cheeses posted:BIKE THREAD WOOOO LOOK AT MY SEXY rear end BIKE not a fixie, gay  my bike is sexier than yours
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ASSASSINS! posted:here's a handy beginners guide to riding in traffic. best part is when one of the show offs crashes into the back of a car.
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In my opinion, people have opinions. I also agree with some, and disagree with others. This thread reminds me that there are times when people are just loving assholes.
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When will they make bikes that fly?
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Brakes, gears and helmets are for pussies and the water bottle holder is for PBR Tall Boys and 'stache wax only . L8r sk8rs
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SpicyMeatSandwich posted:Brakes, gears and helmets are for pussies and the water bottle holder is for PBR Tall Boys and 'stache wax only . L8r sk8rs 
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