Bike Nazis Beware
Posted on 08/09/2009 9:21:20 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Liberals behaving poorly.
Get on a child’s toy and go play in traffic!
As a cyclist, let me be the first to say that Critical Mass is full of whiny pansy ass losers who lacked a father figure growing up.
“Critical Mass”?
Don’t tell me, let me guess, another ACORN affiliate?
Bike Nazis Beware
How to handle ‘Critical Mass’ bicyclers, My experience at Bio 2004:
After moving less than half a block in 20 minutes (one block away from from Moscone), a bunch of bicyclists started riding between the cars, leader with a bull horn, shouting something about taking over the streets.
He had the horn pointed back wards so I didn’t hear him coming. Durn! he got away!
However, I popped my door open in front of the third or so cyclist in the string. (I did look first to make sure he had room to stop).
He screams “You effin’ clymer!!!” (OK, I cleaned it up a little, so sue me...)
I looked up smiled sweetly and said “That makes two of us...”
Totally messed them up. They had to stop and regroup. His buds split leaving him with two young “ladies” to protect him from the mean man in the car. Boo fricking hoo
I closed the door and he started to pass by and continued to berate me. When he was adjacent to the door I popped it open at him, not to hit him, but to persuade him to move along.
He darn near fell off his bike trying to dodge me.
“We’re going to call 911!!!”
“Don’t bother, I’ll call for you” which I did. (The line was busy)
He and the two chicks decided that it was past their collective bedtimes or something and split.
Felt GOOD...
I'm inclined to agree. Nothing against bicyclers, but a lot of them expect everyone else on the road to cater to them. I have a friend who thinks I'm nuts for riding a motorcycle who will creep along the side of a busy two lane here in Ill. Scared the hell out of me.
Operating a vehicle on a public thoroughfare while intoxicated -- that's what this is.
Let 'em pay a road taxes, either directly or through registering for a public-thoroughfare cycling license.
"Right to the road"? Sure, on a level with everybody else -- responsibilities as well as rights.
Not as stupid as getting paid millions to dress up in a costume and throw a ball in a billion dollar climate controlled stadium.
Cycling is one of the few sports left with real “hard men” in it. The NFL/MLB/NBA should just start handing out mandatory tiaras.
Drunk driving is dangerous.
Drunk cycling is suicidal.
I’m guessing a small percentage of these were professional troublemakers who just happened to own a bike.
Ditto.
Sigh.
I consider Critical Mass to be an enemy of the cycling community. In claiming to demand respect for cyclists, they get in everyone elses face, including pedestrians, including mass transit users (blocking buses). There was an incident last summer in Minneapolis where the behavior was approaching that of the San Franscisco Critical Massers - known to be quite violent. And Minneapolis mayor R T Rybak participates in the Critical Mass rides.
I am a competitive cyclist. You would think that a sport that depends a lot on individual effort and an awful lot of training (even at an amateur masters level) would have a lot of participants who are at least somewhat libertarian. Instead, many of the participants here are far left barking moonbats. Makes me sometimes consider getting rid of the bikes, bloat to 400#, and run them off the road with the SUV.
Bike Fascists
Exactly. Critical Mass riders are the same idiots protesting G8 summits, inciting violence at Town Hall meetings, and disrupting conservative speakers at colleges across the US.
Everyone I ride with values freedom, diversity of thought and action and that very nature makes a supermajority of them conservatives.
For some reason liberals are attracted to bicycles as a form of mass transportation. Probably their longing to be European.
It seems that any time these liberal folks get together enmasse they think that the rule of law no longer applies to them and feel they can do as they please. It's as if they confuse mass groupings with majority rule.
The Ogden police acted just like the Cambridge or any other police department would act. They followed established legal procedure, something that just pisses liberals off.
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