Bike Nazis Beware
Liberals behaving poorly.
Get on a child’s toy and go play in traffic!
As a cyclist, let me be the first to say that Critical Mass is full of whiny pansy ass losers who lacked a father figure growing up.
“Critical Mass”?
Don’t tell me, let me guess, another ACORN affiliate?
Bike Nazis Beware
How to handle ‘Critical Mass’ bicyclers, My experience at Bio 2004:
After moving less than half a block in 20 minutes (one block away from from Moscone), a bunch of bicyclists started riding between the cars, leader with a bull horn, shouting something about taking over the streets.
He had the horn pointed back wards so I didn’t hear him coming. Durn! he got away!
However, I popped my door open in front of the third or so cyclist in the string. (I did look first to make sure he had room to stop).
He screams “You effin’ clymer!!!” (OK, I cleaned it up a little, so sue me...)
I looked up smiled sweetly and said “That makes two of us...”
Totally messed them up. They had to stop and regroup. His buds split leaving him with two young “ladies” to protect him from the mean man in the car. Boo fricking hoo
I closed the door and he started to pass by and continued to berate me. When he was adjacent to the door I popped it open at him, not to hit him, but to persuade him to move along.
He darn near fell off his bike trying to dodge me.
“We’re going to call 911!!!”
“Don’t bother, I’ll call for you” which I did. (The line was busy)
He and the two chicks decided that it was past their collective bedtimes or something and split.
Felt GOOD...
Operating a vehicle on a public thoroughfare while intoxicated -- that's what this is.
Let 'em pay a road taxes, either directly or through registering for a public-thoroughfare cycling license.
"Right to the road"? Sure, on a level with everybody else -- responsibilities as well as rights.
Drunk driving is dangerous.
Drunk cycling is suicidal.
I’m guessing a small percentage of these were professional troublemakers who just happened to own a bike.
Sigh.
I consider Critical Mass to be an enemy of the cycling community. In claiming to demand respect for cyclists, they get in everyone elses face, including pedestrians, including mass transit users (blocking buses). There was an incident last summer in Minneapolis where the behavior was approaching that of the San Franscisco Critical Massers - known to be quite violent. And Minneapolis mayor R T Rybak participates in the Critical Mass rides.
I am a competitive cyclist. You would think that a sport that depends a lot on individual effort and an awful lot of training (even at an amateur masters level) would have a lot of participants who are at least somewhat libertarian. Instead, many of the participants here are far left barking moonbats. Makes me sometimes consider getting rid of the bikes, bloat to 400#, and run them off the road with the SUV.
Bike Fascists
For some reason liberals are attracted to bicycles as a form of mass transportation. Probably their longing to be European.
It seems that any time these liberal folks get together enmasse they think that the rule of law no longer applies to them and feel they can do as they please. It's as if they confuse mass groupings with majority rule.
The Ogden police acted just like the Cambridge or any other police department would act. They followed established legal procedure, something that just pisses liberals off.
Cyclists are, generally and with a few exceptions, a menace on the hiways and byways and ought to be taxed off the road.
At the very least they ought to have annual licence plates for their contraptions, compulsory third-party and property damage insurance, five year cyclists licences with photo and signature (for which they should sit a test), and they ought to pay a mileage levy just like diesel trucks do, to pay a contribution to the roads that they otherwise use for free. This latter tax could be used to pay for the dedicated cycle lanes that cyclists seem to constantly demand.
Recognizing that kids ride bikes, the above measures should exempt children under the age of eighteen, who should therefore ride on sidewalks and walk their cycles as pedestrians across intersections. As novice riders they should be prohibited to ride alongside roads where the speed limit exceeds 50 MPH, and they should be prohibited to ride after dark or before sunrise.
Sounds sensible to me.
Roads exist because car owners pay for them. I find it strange that politicians capitulate to bicyclists who use roads paid by others. We need to suggest bike registration and use taxes. that should stir interest among politicians. Change the laws to make bicyclists fully comply with road laws. Make them produce an operator's license and registration when stopped by police. That will really irk the commie b@st@rds.
Counter-productive thy name is Critical Mass.
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What a PIKER!!
The problem here is typified by the name of this irresponsible outfit - i.e. critical mass.
All the car/bike problems of which I’m aware stem from large group of cyclists riding en masse which changes the whole dynamic.
Laws should be written to make this sort of mass cycling illegal - unless it is done in such a way (e.g. deserted country roads) so as not to pose problems to other users of the roads.
I have no problems with individual cyclists or pairs of cyclists.
Assemblies of 20 or more cyclists using aggressive tactics to intimidate other users of the roads are where the problem lies and where people are going to hurt.
They should simply be made illegal.
This has nothing whatever to do with people wanting to enjoy the public roadways, or move to a healthier lifestyle.
Riding in large groups has everything to do with mob tactics.
My $.02.