Another sign of America turning into a third world country!
Cyclists are by and large a-holes.
They tried to intimidate a car a while back. The car hit the brakes and they cyclists smacked into the car.
If the following vehicle were a car it would have been the follower who would have been cited. But the DRIVER was persecuted.
The worse for cyclists, the better for everyone else.
From past threads on Free Republic, there are Spandex/Cyclist haters here that might be suspects, from the things they posted.
>>”You’re on a 20 lb. bike with a 23-millimeter wide tire,” she said. “If it hits a tack, and your tire blows, you’re going to hit the pavement and it’s going to hurt.”
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Maybe you should think about that the next time you surround a car and DARE it to smack you as you deserve!
As someone who has ridden and driven on that road countless times, anyone wanting to do harm to cyclists would not drop nails at the summit, but rather further down the hill at one of the countless hairpins. If this was intentional, it was a warning. Further, as someone who has commuted by bicycle for a few years and by car most of my life, it is the a-holes on 2-wheels that annoy me the most, not because there are not a-holes in cars, but because a few jerks make ALL cyclists look bad. Follow the damn rules and be respectful. Where cars need to ‘make room’ for cyclists, cyclists should really ride the middle of the lane at the same speed as motor vehicles, or choose another route. Stick to roads with bike lanes or wide shoulders, unclip at stop signs, yield right-of-way to cars when required to do so, and for crying out loud, don’t do stupid stuff like ride against traffic in a bike lane or (even worse) on the sidewalk. I almost flattened a cyclist a few months ago that was riding the wrong direction in a bike lane across an overpass and through a blind merge... freakin’ death wish, and he had the gall to flip me the bird for holding my arms up in a ‘what the hell’ gesture. Drivers just chill and know that there are cyclists that “get it” and don’t presume to have the right of way under all circumstances.
Why are you going to hit the pavement? I drove a Harley through Spearfish Canyon with a flat front tire. It wasn't an enjoyable trip, by any means, but I didn't dump the bike. There is no reason why someone on a bicycle would necessarily wreck over a flat. We rode on flats as kids as a matter of course.
I suspect the Nail and Tack Cartel.
My hatred of Big Nail and Big Tack knows no bounds.
I owned a Schwinn Stingray fifty years ago. I still have nightmares about those evil Nail and Tack Hoodlums planning my demise.
Yeah, it’s annoying if you’re in a car doing 5 mph behind a cyclist going up a hill, with no clear path around, but you don’t solve the problem like this.
Balderdash. Those same nails are a problem for car tires.
“But riders, who are now being warned to pay close attention to the sidewalks, are afraid they are being targeted.”
So, are they riding on the road, or on the sidewalk? (Are they being a menace to drivers or pedestrians?) :)
“Think about your own kids riding a cycle “
How many kids ride on this road?