1. As George Carlin once said~“im going cycling today. You re going 30 feet in the air!”

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2. South Florida was probably some of the worst entitlement I saw from bicyclists. Down in the Coconut Grove/Coral Gables area, it was almost impossible to get around on the weekends with all the bicyclists out for a Saturday cruise combined with no visibility/passing zones and all the lovely Miami traffic. The most infuriating was down in Homestead, trying to get to HTC and there was some pack ride of 50+ bicyclists that fanned out and took **both lanes** of the road. And they didn’t give any way to passing motorists until said motorists were almost on the back tire of the cyclists.

   I’ll give cyclists as much room as I can because physics and aerodynamics is a thing. But damn do some of these douchebags slide the scale to putting cyclists in the same groups as TikTok nurses, the IRS, F-Troop, Fauci and anyone pushing CRT in the workplace.

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   1. I concur, the Miami-Dade cyclist are the most entitled assholes on the road next to BMW and Mercedes drivers

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   2. I’ve not been there, but I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time and learned to loathe the sight of cyclists there. The more logos on the spandex, the worse the attitude and behavior was going to be.

      As a motorcyclist, I found cyclist douchepacks almost as bad as seeing ovloV in one’s rear view mirror.

      Sadly they’re starting to invest the small town I now live in, too.

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3. Wrong way driver? That’s a two way street. The guy clearly is too dumb to be safe anywhere outside the home.

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4. As my motorcycle safety instructor told my class on Day 1 … In a collision between a car and a bike, the bike loses no matter who had right of way. Even more true for bicyclists as the average bicyclist doesn’t armor up nearly as much as the average motorcyclist.

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   1. ^^ THIS ^^

      Car/truck meets bike, bike loses every time. Simple physics: a vehicle is not technically an irresistible force, but it’s so much more massive — at least an order of magnitude difference — than a cyclist that it may as well be.

      And all that armor that motorcyclists use and bicyclists tend to not use, only protects from minor bumps and road rash. It doesn’t do much to protect from the blunt trauma of being hit by a 2-ton vehicle and thrown 30 feet (and landing), any more than a Level IIIa vest protects the wearer from falling off a tall roof.

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      1. Yep. Those full face helmets? They’re designed to protect against an impact equivalent to falling flat on your face from standing up. Call it 6′ high siting on the bike. That translates to an impact speed of around 9 m/sec, or 20 miles per hour.

         The rest is all abrasion protection, impact pads to spread the force from an elbow or knee hitting the ground at similar speeds, and depending on the article of clothing twisting protection, not high velocity impact as such.

         For which, having had need of it once upon a time, I am very thankful for having been wearing.

5. I was an avid cyclist ibn the mid 80’s. As a teen I spent my hard earned money and bought an expensive road bike and used to ride daily for fun and exercise. it was just me and one friend and we were careful and so on. Then a cycling ‘club’ tried to get us to join. At first we thought ‘hey cool, like minded people!’ but soon found out that they were the idiot type of cyclists, taking over lanes, blowing stop signs in traffic and so on. We left very quickly. That crap just gives those of us who like to ride a bad name. I don’t need bike lanes and all that other crap, I don’t try and push my stuff on anyone else and try to avoid high traffic areas because I don’t want to be a pest. or get hit. It’s probably how motorcyclists feel when they see idiot on crotch rockets weaving thru traffic and being general idiots. Also, funny how video disappeared. She was probably getting raked in the comments.

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6. I commuted by bike for a few years, until my position was moved clear across town, too far to bike practically. Properly done, it’s a great but sobering experience.

   What cyclists have to realize — and the entitled ones in big cities have clearly forgotten — is that riding amidst traffic is like stepping out into the wilderness. You are no longer at the top of the food chain.

   The law says cyclists have right-of-way, which is great, but the law is a piece of paper; it has zero bearing on the very real physics and biology that come into play on the road, and is small consolation to your loved ones mourning your untimely passing. Pedestrians have right-of-way, too (most places, pedestrians’ right-of-way even supersedes cyclists’ — another inconvenient fact most urban cyclists tend to forget), and they get killed every day. In crosswalks, where their right-of-way is absolute and unquestioned!

   While I agree that drivers should be cautious of pedestrians and cyclists, follow the rules, and always yield right-of-way where they should, s#!t happens and it doesn’t always work that way. Good cyclists recognize that and act accordingly.

   A$$hole cyclists act like they’re the kings and queens of the urban jungle … right up until they get mauled by an oncoming Jaguar, trampled by a Mustang, or bit in the a$$ by a wayward Viper.

   (There are enough makes/models of cars named after animals, those practically write themselves!)

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   1. It’s interesting that in Holland, where bicycles are more common than almost any other country and are widely used for commuting, (a) traffic laws apply to bicycles AND are enforced, (b) right-of-way rules divide traffic into two categories, “slow” and “fast”. Bicycles, naturally, are “slow”. The rule is that fast traffic has the right of way over slow traffic. So bicycles must yield to cars. That rule probably contributes a whole lot to safety.

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      1. Correction: that right of way rule is no longer in effect; it apparently was dropped about 20 years ago. It was the rule when I grew up, though, and it still makes good sense.

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   2. You forgot, “blown up by a Pinto.” 🙂

7. As a long time avid cyclist, and one who’s family (wife & child) also partook heavily last year, to the tune of 87 logged rides and over 1,000 miles, and have already logged 16 rides/150 miles so far this year (two rides in January of all days!), I can say that it’s a mix of my despise for vehicle operators AND my fellow riders.

   I/we obey traffic laws to the same degree we do when driving.
   Do we sometimes roll a stop sign? Absolutely.
   Do we ride in opposition of traffic? Extremely rarely, but there are time when it’s pertinent. We also change our riding style depending on the situation.
   We do everything we can to not be in the way, but as per law we sometimes have to take possession of a lane for a whole host of reasons. We always signal before we have to, but that doesn’t preclude other people just being fucking morons.

8. A few years back, my family was driving up Sanibel Island to go fishing on Captiva. Now, Sanibel is covered with good bike paths. But some dingus in Lance Armstrong cosplay was riding in the middle of the road, at a pace generously described as Little Brother “Comeon guys, wait for me!” Speed.

   It had to be deliberate self righteous jerk action, as it wasn’t like he was going to be held up on the bike path because of his awesome turn of speed.

9. The only things more hated on the road than cyclists are street moochers and BLM/Pantifa protestors.

   It is good that the world crushed the idiot pedaler. Stupid should hurt, as pain is a teaching tool.

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