Reporting for duty. 90% of the bike riders in my area are complete a**holes.
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Not sure it's 90%, but many are in my area too. There is a bike path on which I often walk and occasionally ride. A majority of the spandex-clad twerps who weigh in at about a buck fifty, with bikes that cost about $2k, are completely discourteous.
The bike path is heavily used by people jogging, walking their dogs, pushing strollers. Most of the "serious" bikers cut between two groups of people walking opposite directions, with no warning. They can't wait five seconds for one group to pass--they have to keep up their "pace."
When I ride, I use a bike bell to advise others when I am passing. Simple courtesy. Apparently too much to ask from most bikers. :(
I avoid riding on the streets. Too dangerous. I've had enough road rash over the years to prove it. I stop at stop signs out of self-preservation.
“Reporting for duty. 90% of the bike riders in my area are complete a**holes.”
I agree - they’re always plugging up the front grill on my Maserati!!
I’ve been run off the road, in a bike lane, by some idiot who never stopped. Broke my collarbone. I have yet to encounter these nazi bicylce riders, and this is after living in south Florida for the last four years, where they’re on the road 11 months. I’ve seen bad drivers and bad riders across the country. Neither one justifies the other, but a guy in a car will never be killed because a bicycle ran into him.