“Until they pay for the road as motor vehicle drivers do, they’ll get little sympathy from most people. :-) “
Funny thing about bicyclists, most of them are drivers and taxpayers too.
shazzam, so much for that “when they pay” argument.
What ... you think they don't own cars and pay taxes like you do?
And show me in the laws of your state where it says that they don't have a right to the road.
Soapgirl was observant.... Some of em do push the press to test button on the spandex stretch factors...... Some are so tight you know why they have roid rage or a sore toe....:o)
I rode schwinn continentals an varsity bikes in the 60’s an 70’s across the USA an where stationed overseas. A few hundred thousand miles over my lifetime as a bike was cheap transportation for a GI with a family to support.
I never ever ever pulled the crap I see so called cyclists doing then as I see today. Some fill the slang description of “organ donors” well. My so called “right of way” never exceeded my common sense an value of life.
Just silly crap I see to much of these days. We policed ourselves then. They need to do such now or someone will ....intentionally or accidentally.
WADR, aren’t cyclists taxpayers too?
I strongly agree about the fat & spandex, though!
What really galls me though is to see a grown man in brightly colored spandex, wearing a pointy helmet and actually thinking he’s cool. They say that they’re trying to keep fit. I say if they really want to keep fit, then they should look up their local Army ROTC unit and do PT with them!
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If they wanted exercise they’d sell the $3,000+ carbon fiber road racer and buy a $70 wide tired cruiser at WalMart, in my experience they break every traffic law around ,,, never stop for lights or signs and impede traffic regularly. I swear the next time I’m at a stop sign and I see a group of “cyclists” heading for an opposite stop sign at warp speed I’m going to pull out right in front of them and exclaim (loudly) But I KNEW you saw YOUR stop sign? May I see your license and insurance cards please?
They "believe" they have a right to resources that we, as tax paying drivers PAY for...Until they pay for the road as motor vehicle drivers do, they'll get little sympathy from most people.
Bicyclists "believe" they have a right to those resources because they also pay taxes to use the roads.
In practically all jurisdictions, roads are paid for by sales, property and incomes taxes. The motor fuels taxes go to limited access freeways that by law are not accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.
And while you are shoving some people in to sub-human castes because their choice of exercise or transportation doesn't involve refineries and deep sea drilling are you also going to outlaw joggers who use the roads? Ticket and fine kids who shoot hoops in the cul-de-sac? If you are using the road selfishly to go to the city park (paid for with taxes) to fly a kite, why is using the road for personal recreation with a full-lane consuming car somehow morally superior to a commuter cyclist heading off to work using the same road and applying significantly less wear and tear?
"Me and SoapGirl walked in on a gaggle of them..."
Exactly how are your thoughts and opinions of other human beings somehow different from those who thought a certain ethnicity wasn't worthy to live in 1930s Germany ? So you want to shove them in ovens because they are fat and in Spandex and ride bicycles? (Don't ever go to Walmart while armed you might go postal and slay all of those subhumans who aren't SI swimsuit models.)
These Totalitarian views you hold, condemning your neighbor just because they have a bicycle is sickening. This is America I thought we used to have some measure of freedom here.