Posted on 08/21/2023 7:45:36 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
I bike 10-20 miles a day and I’m not a cuck.
Cycling takes a toll on those who ignore the law. Ignore traffic laws, and the laws of physics take over.
Wealthy people ride bikes for sport and exercise and have the ability to do so more safely. Poor people who ride bikes are often young, reckless, ride on more congested streets.
In this country we drive if we can, take public transit if we can’t. Bike riding is a luxury of time, not generally a way to get around. Just as there is a skew in wealth there will be a skew in biking statistics. Ergo, a relatively large number of wealthy people ride safely and a smaller number of poor, minority people ride in very dangerous conditions and the rate of injuries among the minority riders is higher.
Stupid headline, stupid conclusions.
Oh pish posh, everyone knows it’s climate change that prevents blacks from riding bikes. Keeps them from swimming too.
More black cyclists die because they don’t ware the jockey clothes like most of the cyclists do.
How is it, in a country so obviously against the proliferation of blacks could there be so many? From everything I read, every activity, venue, situation, everything is contrived in a manner to be an obstacle to, or at a minimum unappealing to blacks. If whites, Latinos, or Asians enjoy an activity but blacks don’t, must that activity be banned as racist, or should they just STFU for once?
I can’t sleep at night because this problem weighs so heavy on my mind.
Oh, shut up.
A cyclist (man or woman) is a serious athlete who rides a bike for fitness (often in addition to other forms of cardio exercise).
On the other hand altogether, a guy who happens to use a bike as a means of transportation, often because he has lost his driver's license due to alcohol, isn't a cyclist.
If this person is a black guy in a black (i.e., high crime) neighborhood, he is an easy victim of violent crime because, well, there he is coasting along, weaving this way and that, on a silly-looking bicycle (often stolen).
Usually, "guys on a bike" have no idea what the road rules are for bikes. They ride against the traffic, without a helmet, and often ride erratically.
If anyone holds a grudge against a guy riding a bike--well, why not repay him while he is most vulnerable...riding that silly-looking bike.
Wow! I had to double-check to see if this was the Bee! Some people really are insane!
And writing stupid articles like this.
The threads about cycling here are always an extreme example of people who have no clue what they are talking about spewing nonsense about an issue they have not got even the slightest inkling about.
For some perspective and no other reason I will mention that I was a state champion and nationally highly ranked cyclist in my long distant past. I used to ride approximately 10,000 miles a year. After I got married my wife and I became avid tandem cyclists.
From what I observe near us the increase in cycling injuries and fatalities in the past few years has less to do with serious cyclists. Every year we take more and more precautions to avoid being run over by distracted motorists, drunks and people driving while smoking marijuana. The increase in people who are getting killed and injured are mostly those who are using electric bikes. They allow people who have not developed any defensive riding skills to go much faster than they are capable of on their own. Some varieties are really just electric motorcycles with no licensing requirements. Young inexperienced motorcyclists are always a group at high risk, but at least they typically have some minimal training. We now see children and adults on electric bicycles completely ignoring traffic rules weaving in and out of traffic and making a nuisance of themselves on a daily basis. And for whatever reason we often see black people who obviously have no previous cycling experience riding like this... I am surprised the statistics are not even worse for them.
Good Lord. People are so bored and pathetic that they hate to go looking for made-up racism. Again.
Many kudos, much respect...and more than a little envy.
Wow.;-)
cause drivers can’t see them... right??? WTF!!!
The writer of this piece should attend the DC Bike Ride if he wants to see blacks riding bikes.
I heard that white men can’t jump.
Maybe black people can’t ride a bike?
Or they prefer a ride in a nice comfortable car unlike those spandex wearing white bike riders.
Total BS!@@@
LOL~~~
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