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Why do Bikes think they own the street

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lukasdudd
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So today I was driving home and im like two blocks away from my house. I have to make a right turn which i do at about 25 mph since i love going around curves as fast as possible. So i make the turn and there is a entrance to the street from a convenience store and all of sudden the college student on a bike comes flying out of the driveway. I slam on the brakes and swerve into the on coming traffic. I stop about 2 inches from a car waiting at the red light and the bike slams into my passenger side door and puts a small dent in my car door.
Then the biker has the balls to start swearing at me as he rolls his bike away from my car. He just kept rambling on about how i should slow down since i was going over the speed limit(i was going 25...pretty sure that is the speed limit!!!!)I just stared at him and then floored throttle and peeled out of there leaving rub from where i started sliding when i slammed on the brakes and then 50 feet more after that.

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Aug 11 2009 9:18PM
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TheButterHashira
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I am not sharing 55mph highways that lack shoulders with a bunch of tight pantsed cyclists. They need to ride their bikes places where the road is wide and the speed limit is low. I couldn't pass one yesterday because it was on a crappy stretch of highway without a shoulder and there was constant oncoming traffic. The speed limit was 55, bitch needed to go find a different road.
Aug 11 2009 10:50PM
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Billek
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What?
Aug 11 2009 10:56PM
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Mr.Panda
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im gonna rant and i think people can understand this point of view.  bicycle lane, the bicycle rider is right ON the white line next to the road instead of the center of the bike lane or the right side that is next to a wide open parallel parking area...  that one i think we can all agree is a little stupid.
Aug 11 2009 11:01PM
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Thenowhereman42
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The thing that really pisses me off about people on bikes is that they seem to think they are the same as a car, following the same traffic patterns, etc, until they come to a stop sign.  Suddenly they become a bike again and just roll on through it.

The real problem is that the government needs to make it not illegal to ride self powered vehicles on the sidewalk, then all the bikes could GTFO ma road.
Aug 11 2009 11:03PM
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jakepwilliams
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douche
Aug 12 2009 12:08AM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
biker? don't you mean cyclist?

this thread is way too much fail for me to handle.
Aug 12 2009 1:05AM
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Slinger1x1
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i was driving in burlington going to make a right turn at a red light

i have my right turn signal on, the light turns green, and i start to go, and out of no where this kid on his fucking bike pulls up on my right side and i almost turn right into him, but luckly i saw him.
Aug 12 2009 1:12AM
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FUUUCK
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4 way stop signs when you're on a bike really mean "look for cars, let them go if they get to the intersection first."

you can't expect a cyclist to stop at every stop sign when there's no traffic, that would be extraordinarily inefficient.

lastly everyone should keep in mind cyclists have way more to lose than any driver. If the OP hit that (stupid)college kid coming out of the drive way without looking, he wouldn't have died, or gotten hurt.

and I can just as easily say it's my road, so fuck you.
Aug 12 2009 1:13AM
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doublexl
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fuck bikers yo. they roll trough roundabouts here like theyre fuckin cars. i get sharing the road and shit, but 95% of the time theyre the problem.
Aug 12 2009 1:14AM
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FUUUCK
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this is how most people get hit, in the city you have to treat right turns as lane changes and check your mirrors.
Aug 12 2009 1:16AM
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bethyb
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i am ashamed to be from the same state as you.

educate yourself.
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/vehicle/bicycle/rules.htm
Aug 12 2009 1:19AM
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
road bikers, yes

some of them (ESPECIALLY around wehre i live- rich white areas) are super stuck up and think they're the bombdiggitykush
and are super arrogant and really annoying
the thing is, they can't go on the sidewalk
only in some places can they

you think that road bikers get flack, try pedalling around a goddamn downhill bike
its my only bike right now, and so i use it all the time
i get yelled at by cops for riding on the side walk (its actually ILLEGAL in ontario/ canada maybe? to have wider than 2.5" tires on the sidewalk ANYWHERE) and then yelled at for having no helmet, and then for going really fast

thing is, i have more control than any other fucker out there
a bike like mine can literally turn on a dime, something those road bikes can't, i can do a full 180 on a regular sidewalk
ive actually had road bikers come up to me and tell me i shouldnt be riding "that thing" around here
(2008 ih sunday WC w. 08 fox 40's, azonic outlaws, vivid 5.1)

its retarded.
Aug 12 2009 1:23AM
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liftedresearcher
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i think if cyclists wanna be on the road, they should have some sort of lisencing program. everyone else who uses the road needs a lisence of some sort.  a uneducated cyclist on the road is pretty dangerous.

just my 2 cents.
Aug 12 2009 1:25AM
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Abc567def
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Can a car do this?
Didn't think so
Aug 12 2009 1:28AM
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TimmyP
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Do you ride your bike in a velodrome?
Aug 12 2009 1:29AM
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FUUUCK
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don't kid yourself, you can't go fast on a sunday on a city street.
Aug 12 2009 1:33AM
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FUUUCK
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AGREE, that would make the roads so much safer.
Aug 12 2009 1:36AM
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
loll suburb, not city
usually pretty empty sidewalks

heres the story (one of them)
theres this random church that cops like to chill in on this road, cawthra, that they like to radar on
so they often go JUST in the drive way of the church, just behind the sidewalk
now the people BESIDE the church have a biggass fence that goes all the way around pretty much
so if you're coming on the sidewalk from one direction, yo ucan't really see them
and its after a fairly big hill, and a slight decline from it, so you can carry speed
so i was pedaling fast past tehre too
and then the cops just nose out a TINY bit
and i couldnt see them AT ALL untill they almost friggin run into me
so i have to quickly bank out, pretty much into the road, and then back again onto the sidewalk
and they were like "YO. you goin too fast"
and im like "k."
Aug 12 2009 1:40AM
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1080ski
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haha, a sunday cannot turn as quickly as a road bike. trust me, i have both!

to people bitching about road riders not riding to the right of the whilte line all of the time, you should really check out how crappy some of the roads are. to the right of the line is potholes and really shittily paved roads. try riding a 3000 dollar bike (mine is not this much, but even so, any road bike) over that shit and your bike will get destroyed (or at least flat tires). also, it isnt uncommon for the road to get to about 3 or 4 inches wide to the right of the white line. its not really plausible to always be there on the bike.


Aug 12 2009 1:42AM
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FUUUCK
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that's lame. if you want I might be able to hook you up with a proper getting around bike for a deece price. Like... do you use your sunday to get everywhere??
Aug 12 2009 1:46AM
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
no way you could beat the sunday, with the right tires it just glues in and powers through any turn
im sure sam hill would beg to differ haha

but then again, i don't really know much about road bikes so ya
 

that is a good point raised though, and really shitty for riding with a nice bike
Aug 12 2009 1:47AM
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gordie.
Posts: 2014 - Karma: 84
no way you could beat the sunday, with the right tires it just glues in and powers through any turn
im sure sam hill would beg to differ haha

but then again, i don't really know much about road bikes so ya
 

that is a good point raised though, and really shitty for riding with a nice bike
Aug 12 2009 1:48AM
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1080ski
Posts: 4424 - Karma: 191
ahh good point. i was thinking straight up turning radius. your probably right then
Aug 12 2009 1:52AM
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FUUUCK
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he has both a sunday and a roadbike, his avatar says DWLINK for crying out loud!
Aug 12 2009 1:53AM
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