[driftless2]

"do not obey traffic laws"

I'd like to stand at a stop sign and see how many cyclists stop for the stop sign. It's been my experience very few cyclists stop. I've lost count of the numbers of cyclists I've seen peddling furiously towards a stop sign and then kept on going after making a perfunctory sideways glance to see if traffic was coming.

[BobL]

“I’ve lost count of the numbers of cyclists I’ve seen peddling furiously towards a stop sign and then kept on going after making a perfunctory sideways glance to see if traffic was coming. “

Hell, I do that when I’m driving, providing it’s small roads and good visibility. They should have a lot more yield signs and a lot less stop signs, as stopping eats up fuel and eats up my clutch.

[Pigsley]

Boy...do I agree about the cyclists “not stopping at the signs”. I live this every day. Live north of Scottsdale, AZ in a remote part of the metro area and the one beautiful road to get to my house (now being torn up for the 11th time with “stimulus” funds) Is swarming with cyclists. I understand they have the right to use the road. What I don't get is a lot of their snotty attitudes. I see that you have a $7,000 bike and a snazzy $600 outfit on, and it's very clear you are proud of how tight those shorts are on your well muscled butts, but what I don't see is you following the laws of the road. I also hear you screaming that YOU HAVE RIGHTS!

Stop at the stop signs, you idiots. If you decide to ride in a clump of 10, obstructing the 50 mile per hour single lane, do not be surprised when people honk, flip you off or do something worse. And, no...I don't do any of those things. But it does happen. And I understand why. I actually saw one terribly snotty “pack leader” who had held up about 5 cars for a couple of miles (on that 50 mph road) start to flip somebody off that slowed down to flip HIM off...and the guy in the car replied by flinging the contents of giant yogurt smoothie in Snottybiker’s face. Direct hit. Do I think that was right? OF COURSE NOT...it's assault in my book. On the other hand, these cyclists up here are not dealing in reality and seem obsessed with their “look” their “rights” their, their, their.

When a gaggle of these fools pull into a local retail area they are glared at and ignored. People are pretty sick of the attitude.

The article was dopey. I don't for one minute think it happened as written. I do think the cop was probably at fault...But I'm rather convinced that the adult rider brought a lot of this situation on himself. Use some common sense...it will get you far in life.

[grey_whiskers]

It'd help if the nimrods who built the roads hadn't made so many stop signs just at the bottom of a nice hill.

I'd favor a voluntary check-off on the taxes for special additions to bike lanes to take the bikes OVER the intersections.

Of course, I live in the Minneapolis suburbs and am fairly close to the Luce Line bike trail which goes seventy miles straight west from my house, in addition to going almost all the way into the University of Minnesota and West River Road, thence nearly to the airport, in the other direction...

/Fantasy mode off>