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various cheeses posted:BIKE THREAD WOOOO LOOK AT MY SEXY rear end BIKE
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they're the smart ones who are not paying $5 a gallon for gas
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Jun 10, 2014 04:42
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Oh this mother fucker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGlODF7_RY&t=74s
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Jun 10, 2014 05:20
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People are always repeating that "It's illegal to bike on the sidewalk!" bullshit and I looked it up and at least in my city it's perfectly legal to ride your bike on the sidewalk anywhere except a few major pedestrian areas where the speed limits are like 20mph anyway. I was driving behind a cyclist on Memorial Day and she blew through a 4 way stop and almost got hit by a car that had already stopped and had the right of way and she got all visibly pissed. I caught up to her half a black later and she kept creeping up through stoplights before they turned green. Then I passed her in another lane and merged back in front of her while giving her plenty of space. She then proceeds to catch up to me at a stop light, ride between me and the sidewalk, and go through the red light. Then she rides along the right side of the lane half in the lane and half driving through a blocks worth of empty diagonal parking stalls so I can't pass her even though she's sort of not even driving in the street anymore. I finally got to where I needed to turn after like two more blocks of that poo poo but I was about ready to call the loving cops on her. I hope she runs a red light and gets hit by a tractor-trailer. If you're gonna drive on the road like a car then follow the loving traffic laws dipshits. I ride my bike too but only on our fine bike paths and sidewalks because I'm not a loving moron.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:29
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people please stop posting pics of your sexy expensive bikes this bike shaming is having an ill effect on my stability and self esteem
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Jun 10, 2014 05:34
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ghetto wormhole posted:People are always repeating that "It's illegal to bike on the sidewalk!" bullshit and I looked it up and at least in my city it's perfectly legal to ride your bike on the sidewalk anywhere except a few major pedestrian areas where the speed limits are like 20mph anyway. The law's different in every state dumbass.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:36
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King Vidiot posted: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.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:39
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Irradiation posted:The law's different in every state dumbass. Yeah but people here, in my city, where that is not the case, keep repeating that poo poo all the time and it's (mostly)not true so I imagine it's also not true in quite a few other places.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:42
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someone tell me why all drivers have to be on their cell phones to drive, is it hooked up to their ignition? some sort of interlock thing? have to make a phone call or the car dies
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Jun 10, 2014 05:44
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texting is the new talking dope
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Jun 10, 2014 05:45
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Bikes are the future. Cities should be built to accommodate bikers more because gas ain't forever.
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Jun 10, 2014 05:45
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my bony fealty posted:nothing satisfies me more than biking down the center of the lane, making all the fatasses in cars behind me boil with rage as they are trapped going 10 mph in a 25 lol you're probably already dead from some stupid rear end in a top hat not paying attention and smashing your tiny little bike with their automobile. Nice job being a loving idiot.
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Jun 10, 2014 06:56
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ghetto wormhole posted:People are always repeating that "It's illegal to bike on the sidewalk!" bullshit and I looked it up and at least in my city it's perfectly legal to ride your bike on the sidewalk anywhere except a few major pedestrian areas where the speed limits are like 20mph anyway. I got cut off by a cyclist at a 4 way stop this morning. Saw him coming, it was my turn, he weaves around in front of me without even looking. I was on a bike myself. I had stopped at the sign (well, as much as I do in a car), even though I had 50 lbs of trailer behind me.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:07
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hemale in pain posted:Pedestrian casualties 2001-09 This is good. Now put it in the context of how many cars are on the road versus bikes.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:11
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Captain Cool posted:If only she were biking on the sidewalk, then she could risk hitting strollers and cars in driveways and still blow through that 4 way stop what kind of shittastic place do you live where it's ok to obstruct a sidewalk with your car
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Jun 10, 2014 07:25
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why do bikers have to ride side by side? impossible to travel in a single file lane? just have whoever has the best looking rear end in their spandex pants ride up front and you homos will love it
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Jun 10, 2014 07:30
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:This is good. Now put it in the context of how many cars are on the road versus bikes. or even better, per km travelled per year.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:33
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I live in Boulder and bike everywhere even in winter. It's magical.
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Jun 10, 2014 07:39
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I'm a dourxhbag it's true
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Jun 10, 2014 07:40
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ghetto wormhole posted:what kind of shittastic place do you live where it's ok to obstruct a sidewalk with your car don't bike on the sidewalk unless you're doing like 8mph or less
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Jun 10, 2014 07:45
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Captain Cool posted:a place with small yards where the fences come right out to the sidewalk so you could get hit by a car as a pedestrian if you're not looking all the time because the driver can't see you until their hood is blocking the sidewalk sounds awful
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Jun 10, 2014 07:56
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Helmets? Y/n
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Jun 10, 2014 08:25
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Squiggle posted:I live in Boulder and bike everywhere even in winter. Me too, in mn, gently caress the haters. Sloppy melty snow sucks but fresh pow is awesome if you've got fat tires Snow only adds a few minutes to my bike commute but hours to a car driver's, plus I get to watch dumbasses sliding all over the place while I cruise at a leisurely pace and still get to work on time wilfredmerriweathr fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 09:02
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i  bikes
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Jun 10, 2014 09:09
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people who complain about bikes are really not my kind of people. love my bike
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Jun 10, 2014 09:23
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People who complain about bikes on the street also complain about bikes not following the rules, which in most cities includes rules requiring bikes to be ridden on the street. I guess the rules that they're thinking of are "only drink mountain dew" and "you must eat a bag of dorritos every night before bed". loving bicyclists 
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Jun 10, 2014 10:02
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QuarkJets posted:People who complain about bikes on the street also complain about bikes not following the rules, which in most cities includes rules requiring bikes to be ridden on the street. actually I don't think anyone gives a poo poo where you ride your bike as long as you don't act like you have all the rights of a pedestrian and a car at the same time
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Jun 10, 2014 10:08
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ghetto wormhole posted:People are always repeating that "It's illegal to bike on the sidewalk!" bullshit and I looked it up and at least in my city it's perfectly legal to ride your bike on the sidewalk anywhere except a few major pedestrian areas where the speed limits are like 20mph anyway. Post a picture of yourself.
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Jun 10, 2014 12:12
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I don't mind people riding bikes places , going to work, whatever. Round here those dudes are usually pretty chill and considerate and seem to realize they are in a situation where they could pretty easily die. It's the loving spandexed up cyclists who are usually just cycling for the sake of it that always seem to be horrible arseholes. I live pretty rural but close enough to the city that my road is just filled with these guys, riding two abreast or not letting you past on the windy narrow as road. maybe you guys who aren't actually going anywhere could not make me late because you're not going to dent my ridiculous bullbar and my neighbour is a pig farmer
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Jun 10, 2014 12:20
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ghetto wormhole posted:actually I don't think anyone gives a poo poo where you ride your bike He said in the thread titled "People who ride bikes on the road are douchebags" e: I've interacted with a bunch of different people who do the full spandex suit bicycling-to-nowhere while in the middle of the road thing, even while there's a separate bike line, and they're all the epitome of smug unaware shittiness. They're the hipsters of the bicycling world. gently caress those people QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 12:29
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I routinely have to work to not kill cyclists with my car. poo poo like blasting through red lights, stop signs, suddenly merging into traffic from pedestrian crossings. We have street cars here as well, and at least once a month a cyclist inexplicably in the streetcar lane will get their tire stuck in the track and tumble into traffic. Used to think they'd just found a hill to die on, but now I'm pretty sure that most of the people cycling like this were never able to pass a driving test or afford a vehicle, so they actually don't know any better.
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Jun 10, 2014 13:00
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my bony fealty posted:nothing satisfies me more than biking down the center of the lane, making all the fatasses in cars behind me boil with rage as they are trapped going 10 mph in a 25
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Jun 10, 2014 13:00
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Fixed gear bikes are the dumbest of all bikes and everyone who rides them should be fined for operating unsafe vehicles. If you have a speed bike you pretty much have to ride on a bike lane or the road. If bike lanes are available and you still ride in the road, you're probably a terrible person. Also, riding on the sidewalk is legit so long as you only do casual riding and don't bike fast. Also, if there are no sidewalks, or bike lanes available, try to keep to the edge of the road dumbasses.
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Jun 10, 2014 13:33
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No. 6 posted:Fixed gear bikes are the dumbest of all bikes and everyone who rides them should be fined for operating unsafe vehicles. Bike lanes usually have cars parked in them, runners in them, people opening their doors into them, construction in them...most of the time they're the shittiest bone to throw to cyclists and are more dangerous to ride in than the road. On the other hand is reallllllly easy to not be a gigantic rear end in a top hat when riding your bike in the road and lots of people act like they're invincible and then get all mad when poo poo goes down because they're blasting through stop signs like it's no big deal. On the other other hand it's really easy to not be a gigantic rear end in a top hat while driving but no one seems to care to do that and the number of people I see every day texting on their phones while driving is really disturbing. Basically you're all assholes e: I got yelled at by someone in a car because I didn't run a red light yesterday Levitate fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Jun 10, 2014 14:00
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One day I was coming down my street, a cyclist coming the opposite direction. Right as we started to pass each other he suddenly veered right in front of my car nearly killing himself, my panic stop was the only thing that saved him. He then immediately launched into an altercation with me claiming that he jumped in front of my car because I was "driving too fast" and he wanted to teach me a lesson. After that day I noticed a pattern where he would cycle over to my neighborhood and just troll around at low speed in circles (kitted out in spandex and ten thousand dollar bike) looking for trouble. I probably saw him 20-30 times in the following weeks just cruising around in circles. 
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Jun 10, 2014 14:09
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revmoo posted:One day I was coming down my street, a cyclist coming the opposite direction. Right as we started to pass each other he suddenly veered right in front of my car nearly killing himself, my panic stop was the only thing that saved him. He then immediately launched into an altercation with me claiming that he jumped in front of my car because I was "driving too fast" and he wanted to teach me a lesson. insurance fraud
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Jun 10, 2014 14:11
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That actually makes sense, but I don't know why you'd literally risk your life to commit insurance fraud, it seems like no insurance payout is worth being in a full-body cast for months or possibly dying. Also jokes on him I carry 25k liability insurance.
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Jun 10, 2014 14:12
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revmoo posted:One day I was coming down my street, a cyclist coming the opposite direction. Right as we started to pass each other he suddenly veered right in front of my car nearly killing himself, my panic stop was the only thing that saved him. He then immediately launched into an altercation with me claiming that he jumped in front of my car because I was "driving too fast" and he wanted to teach me a lesson. That man is mentally ill do the world a favor next time and just run him over. This is america you won't get in trouble for killing someone with your car they'll just give you a little fine and say "hey man dont' drive for a month or so and then you're cool, ok?"
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Jun 10, 2014 14:13
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rock rock posted:I don't mind people riding bikes places , going to work, whatever. Round here those dudes are usually pretty chill and considerate and seem to realize they are in a situation where they could pretty easily die. yeah i can agree with this. i used to live in a rural, hilly area with a lot of narrow roads, no shoulders, sudden turns, blind turns, like it was scary to drive without cyclists. there were times where you could be going the speed limit, observing every possible precaution, and if an oncoming car and you met at a turn while there were cyclists someone was going to die. i was really surprised it didnt happen more often
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Jun 10, 2014 14:15
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Levitate posted:Bike lanes usually have cars parked in them, runners in them, people opening their doors into them, construction in them...most of the time they're the shittiest bone to throw to cyclists and are more dangerous to ride in than the road. Ideally people parking in bike lanes would get fines and towed. I guess some cities just suck for biking, and in those cases bikes should be on the road.
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