If they were licensed, plated and could be identified by their plate number, they would behave better.
Their licensing fees could be used to pay for bike lanes.
Our winding two lane highway has many blind corners, and it's pretty frustrating not knowing when you will round a corner to find one going a fraction of the posted speed while oblivious to the traffic they have kept waiting behind them. The law requires a slow moving vehicle to pull over and let traffic pass.
One morning I passed a biker going in the opposite direction. He refused to pull over to let traffic pass. I spent 20 minutes passing the line of hundreds of cars that were backed up behind the selfish SOB. It was rush .hour and this jerk was making people late for work! I'm sure he boasted about saving the planet, and had warm fuzzy feelings about scoring points in Dogooderville!
And I agree this needs to apply to bikes as well.
It's an irritant to me, to say the least, particularly on my road out front here, a 50 mph road with a big wide paved shoulder, when bikes are in the middle of the lane of travel, and I'm pulling a horse trailer, and can't get around them because of oncoming traffic. And they still don't move over after they have brought me to a crawl and know damn well I'm there.
In a car, or even in my truck, sans trailer, I could zip around them at some point, but I can't "zip" anywhere pulling the horse trailer, and even if I could, I wouldn't, not wanting to knock my poor horses off their feet back there. No, I need about a half mile of clear oncoming traffic to get around them gently and safely, and that they won't pull over into the perfectly serviceable paved shoulder for even the few seconds it would take for me to pass in the lane and be on my way chaps me to no end. And no... I can't even honk at them, because I don't want to scare my horses.
So bikers, if you're blocking someone, particularly a larger or less maneuverable vehicle like a horse trailer, pull over for a minute! Be nice! I have nothing against a nice ride through the country side... I'm trying to go on one myself. I'm just not doing it in the middle of the road.
Rant finished :~)
We have those idiots here, too.
One road is posted at 55 mph, it’s winding and tiwisty, going thorugh woods and farms, and every summer we get jackass cyclists who go 15 mph right down the middle of the road, not caring that there might be a car going 55 mph just behind him.
Total idiots, those folks...and the law says they can do it, furthermore, the law states that cars have to go SIX feet around them, which...if you’re going around a blind curve, is in the OTHER lane!
Our idiot legislature approved that law. I keep waiting for them to approve roller bladers and pedestrians walking down the middle of 55 mph highways!
Ed