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10-31-09, 09:10 AM
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I agree with what has been said although I do run into one problem. A lot of the roads I ride on are concrete panel roads. In the shoulder where you would ride when staying to the right is a huge seam. So if a car is parked in the shoulder and i have to move over, it is annoying to constantly cross the seam. You also have to cross over pretty quick so your tire doesnt get stuck in the gap and it probably looks like im swerving like an idiot.
An actual pic i found on google. you can see seams everywhere and they run parallel to the direction you ride too.
An actual pic i found on google. you can see seams everywhere and they run parallel to the direction you ride too.
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10-31-09, 09:16 AM
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To the OP, yup, we have a stupid shop ride with boneheads riding on the yellow line or 3 abreast. I don't do it much anymore. I like our Sunday small group ride with 3-8 riders who all know what they're doing.
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Originally Posted by Barese Rider
Come down the Jersey shore and watch some of the same type of idiots ride a few abreast along Ocean Ave in the middle of the day in the summer, hold up traffic, and get people hating them and everyone else who rides a bike to boot. The only wonder I have is that I have only heard of a few accidents involving bikes along that stretch in the last 25 years.
10-31-09, 09:20 AM
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Great post!! I couldn't agree more. I started riding last year and quickly became awarer of the 'us against them' mentality that seems to permeate the cycling community. I have ridden on group rides where wanna be 'race' cyclists will ride 2, 3, and sometimes 4 abreast and not yield to motor vehicles. Some idiotic dream of equal rights for cyclists... While that might be the law, common courtesy will much further the cycling effort. Besides... the law of the road is really quite simple... 4000lbs vs 150 lbs what about that principle is hard to get?
10-31-09, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by coasting
so what happens when you see a velo moron doing moronic stuff and you are driving. i am so tempted to shout at them but then it becomes a motorist vs cyclist confrontation.
10-31-09, 09:25 AM
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wrong. wrong wrong.
this is not about morons, clueless idiots, inexperienced riders etc. This is about arrogant dicks who ride like that to inconvenience people, to exert some kind of power, to give the middle finger to other road users.
These people are bad drivers too and bad pedestrians who barge past other people, knocking stuff out of people's hands.
So there are dickheads in the world. so what?
this is not about morons, clueless idiots, inexperienced riders etc. This is about arrogant dicks who ride like that to inconvenience people, to exert some kind of power, to give the middle finger to other road users.
These people are bad drivers too and bad pedestrians who barge past other people, knocking stuff out of people's hands.
So there are dickheads in the world. so what?
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10-31-09, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by itsnevertoolate
Great post!! I couldn't agree more. I started riding last year and quickly became awarer of the 'us against them' mentality that seems to permeate the cycling community. I have ridden on group rides where wanna be 'race' cyclists will ride 2, 3, and sometimes 4 abreast and not yield to motor vehicles. Some idiotic dream of equal rights for cyclists... While that might be the law, common courtesy will much further the cycling effort. Besides... the law of the road is really quite simple... 4000lbs vs 150 lbs what about that principle is hard to get?
10-31-09, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by coasting
So there are dickheads in the world. so what?
10-31-09, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by itsnevertoolate
Besides... the law of the road is really quite simple... 4000lbs vs 150 lbs what about that principle is hard to get?
Anyway most of this talk about riding all the way to the right (or left in other countries) is useless without factoring in where people are and what their road situations are like. Ride within a foot of the curb here in much of the D/FW area and you know what? A car is still going to have a tough time passing you safely. Here, quite a few of our roads have narrow lanes and no shoulder, so it is safer to take the lane (or at least to ride far enough out to keep people from even considering passing you in the same lane). YMCLV.
10-31-09, 09:38 AM
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Did anyone catch the "Car Talk" Puzzler last week ? It was about a cyclist that actually followed the rules of the road !
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10-31-09, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by wneumann
So you just gave your lunch to the big kids in grade school too, huh?
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10-31-09, 09:45 AM
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These are the same peckerheads that ride in the far left on highways constantly.You won't change them as anything can drive a car/bike in America.
The larger the group ride,the higher the moron factor.
The larger the group ride,the higher the moron factor.
10-31-09, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
What a brilliant analogy.
This is the stunning insight that brings us back to BF again and again. Thoughtful analysis we can get nowhere else.
This is the stunning insight that brings us back to BF again and again. Thoughtful analysis we can get nowhere else.
10-31-09, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by patentcad
What a brilliant analogy.
This is the stunning insight that brings us back to BF again and again. Thoughtful analysis we can get nowhere else.
This is the stunning insight that brings us back to BF again and again. Thoughtful analysis we can get nowhere else.
Anyway, good job on ignoring my second point, that your ranting is useless without any information on the types of roads you're talking about riding. Which is really what keeps me coming back to BF.
Anyway, shouldn't this really be in A&S?
10-31-09, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by carpediemracing
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I can't believe I'm 100,000% agreeing with pcad.
I can't believe I'm 100,000% agreeing with pcad.
Some riders are complete morons around this.
I figure a 3000# car will always win against me, so why fight, get the **** over on the white line and STFU.
I never give the finger either.
10-31-09, 09:59 AM
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Anyway most of this talk about riding all the way to the right (or left in other countries) is useless without factoring in where people are and what their road situations are like.
I see your moniker agrees with you... aside from the personal attacks... cyclists that 'take the lane' for safety purposes (which I agree with) isn't the subject here.. it's the idiots that believe they can 'take the lane' without cause... because they 'have the right'....
I see your moniker agrees with you... aside from the personal attacks... cyclists that 'take the lane' for safety purposes (which I agree with) isn't the subject here.. it's the idiots that believe they can 'take the lane' without cause... because they 'have the right'....
10-31-09, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by wneumann
Which is really what keeps me coming back to BF.
10-31-09, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by spry
.....and you created this in your likeness Dr. Frankenstein.
10-31-09, 10:07 AM
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Without rants like the one that started this thread, would there even be a BF at all?
10-31-09, 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by itsnevertoolate
Anyway most of this talk about riding all the way to the right (or left in other countries) is useless without factoring in where people are and what their road situations are like.
I see your moniker agrees with you... aside from the personal attacks... cyclists that 'take the lane' for safety purposes (which I agree with) isn't the subject here.. it's the idiots that believe they can 'take the lane' without cause... because they 'have the right'....
I see your moniker agrees with you... aside from the personal attacks... cyclists that 'take the lane' for safety purposes (which I agree with) isn't the subject here.. it's the idiots that believe they can 'take the lane' without cause... because they 'have the right'....
10-31-09, 10:12 AM
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Lets see... The group consensus seem to be that we need to follow the rules of the road, yet we are not entitled to our share of the road?
Some you need to reassess your position.
Some you need to reassess your position.
10-31-09, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by BarracksSi
Wave your cowbell and shout, "Hold your line, rookie!"
10-31-09, 10:14 AM
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i dont like having big cars driving slowly behind me. i would rather they just got past me and go.
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10-31-09, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by exRunner
Lets see... The group consensus seem to be that we need to follow the rules of the road, yet we are not entitled to our share of the road?
Some you need to reassess your position.
Some you need to reassess your position.
Does that clarify things?
