Bicyclers

Cyprus106 · #1 02-01-2005, 05:48 PM

ok... what the HELL... does anyone else have this problem where they live?

ESPECIALLY in the summer and when it gets nice out, we get this just huge rash of bicyclers that bike in the middle of the street at 10-15mph. I know it's not illegal but I'm doin 40 all the sudden i notice this dood in the street doin 10 and there's oncoming cars so i can't pass. I just sit there. doing 10. behind a biker. and they're real pricks about it too. they absolutely REFUSE to bike on the perfectly empty sidewalk, because "theyre too good for that!" and lately, I've been noticing them biking out on county roads. those really hilly, really windy ones that you usually can't see around the next corner and everyone on them does 55 at least. you come around the corner or some shit, a bikers gonna be complete road kill. there's designated trails and shit around here they could ride and everything. some of them bike in the shoulder, but mostly they'll just kick it right out there in the middle of the motherfucking road. There was this one bitch that was biking in the middle of the road, right next to the GOD DAMNED DESIGNATED BIKE LANE. I'm going the opposite direction so i saw her from a long ways away and i got really pissed and stuck my head out the window to scream something like "bike lane bitch" and she goes "Hi, Matt!" my face just went white. It was my best friend's mom. I nearly shit myself and my g/f could not stop laughing for her life.

I don't get it. Why?! And man they don't even obey the traffic laws. they bike through intersections ALL THE TIME. never stop. act like pedestrians but hog the road. Bike in the street down busy roads in rush hour traffic. why create one more road hazard? I don't get it. But gawd it's SO IRRITATING

82KnightRider · #2 02-01-2005, 06:39 PM

Yeah thats cool if they wanna bike n all that but they should get out of cars way if they have a chance.One time I saw 3 dudes lined up side by side in the right lane of a 2 lane st and they expected me to pass them...wtf.
I heard in berkley CA enviromental activest get pvc pipe and fabricate their bikes to be the same width and length as cars so that way when they ride their bikes they piss ppl off driving there cars real bad.

imtheoneandonlyD · #3 02-01-2005, 08:21 PM

^^^^that would piss me off. I hate when bikers act like they own the road.

rolin22 · #4 02-01-2005, 09:02 PM

if someone did that to me ^ i'd run him over..........................three more years till i get my liscense

CamaroSSBoy346 · #5 02-01-2005, 09:08 PM

yeh, and they dot it in BIG FLOCKS, like 10-15 at once...

93rollaracer · #6 02-01-2005, 09:14 PM

Just roll up behind them and after tailing them for a while, lay on the horn for a few seconds. Or better yet, get in front of them and slow down to half the speed they're going.

RickwithaTbird · #7 02-01-2005, 09:53 PM

lol, "Bike lane bitch!".... hahaha.. I wish you woulda said it! Damn, that woulda been funny. My friend on Maui had this moped, and it would go 35 mph tops. Well, he said when he rode in the bike lane, people would nearly side swipe him, so he would just ride right in the middle of the road, and swerve at people if they tried to pass him. He was nuts like that. Then he would point to the speed limit sign which was usually 20-30. His moped almost went the speed limit for the highway, which was 40.

Anyways... I hate a-hole bikers. Whenever I want people to move, I turn up my system, and play some gangsta shit with the bass on 10. It works for cars, bikes, trucks, jeeps... whatever.. and if they dont move.. who cares, at least youre jammin.

TexasF355F1 · #8 02-02-2005, 01:04 AM

I agree completely! I hate when i go to my parents and the fucking kids are riding in the middle of the street AND they know you're there. Is it that hard to ride next to the curb? Or better yet, use the FUCKING SIDEWALK! That way if you fall, you lessen your chances even more of getting hit by a car.

rapstagangsta · #9 02-02-2005, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by TexasF355F1

I agree completely! I hate when i go to my parents and the fucking kids are riding in the middle of the street AND they know you're there. Is it that hard to ride next to the curb? Or better yet, use the FUCKING SIDEWALK! That way if you fall, you lessen your chances even more of getting hit by a car.

Umm, whats wrong with using the bicycle lane?, thats why its there. I get really pissed off when idiot cyclists cycle on the footpath. Who cares if they have less chance of getting run over going on the footpath, they're putting people who walk in danger.

YogsVR4 · #10 02-02-2005, 10:04 AM

About the only thing you can do is lay on the horn. You don't want to touch them or cause them to crash - your ass would be grass.

TexasF355F1 · #11 02-02-2005, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by rapstagangsta

Umm, whats wrong with using the bicycle lane?, thats why its there. I get really pissed off when idiot cyclists cycle on the footpath. Who cares if they have less chance of getting run over going on the footpath, they're putting people who walk in danger.

Well there aren't always bike lanes. The only bike lanes i know of in houston are around downtown. There is no bike lane in my parents neighborhood, nor any other neighborhood ive been in. Riding a bike on the sidewalk in a neighborhood is different than a path set up for people to run on. I agree, no one should ride on those. Plus all the people i see walking/running in the neighborhood typically use the street.

Cyprus106 · #12 02-02-2005, 01:24 PM

There's like 4 nature trails aroudn here that are made specifically for bikers. and now that same friend's mom works at a bike shop and is a huge advicate of it. she's been on the local news saying "oh just toot your horn if yer gonna pass us--and please go slow!"

Bitch got a ton of bumper stickers made that read "Share the Road with Bicyclists!" And distributed them every-fucking-where.

And I've asked her why they bike in the middle of the road and act all high-and-mighty about it, she says "well we have just as much of a right to be there as any car does! We've got wheels too." All I could respond with was "well the only difference is YOU don't have to worry about rear ending my car and killing me. " Not only having the death of another person on your conscience, but most likely jail time for involuentary manslaughter.

I remember something like 3 years ago I was sitting still waiting to turn left into my subdivision and there's a biker in the MIDDLE of one of the major roads in our town. This guy in a Porsche didn't see him, because the speed limit's 45 and the biker's doing 10 and he's coming around a turn. The porsche has no choice but to take the left when he sees him because he can't take the ditch; it's nothing but a guard rail and he'd prolly STILL hit the biker. so he's going too fast, (but still doin the speed limit,) swerves left which is where I'm sitting waiting to turn, sees ME and has to swerve into ONCOMING TRAFFIC, BARELY misses some dood's Dodge and swerves back into his lane and lays on the horn and stops. I was watching most of this from my rear view. Then I got pissed cuz the fuckin biker was an asshole for being on this road at all. especially because there's a bike trail LITERALLY 10 feet from us. i mean the road i was sitting on was an OVERPASS for this bike trail. not even 20 feet away. So I pull up and stoop by the porsche cuz im thinkin this guy in the porsche has a) just shit his pants and b) is gonna gun this biker to the ground and i was pissed enough that i wanted a piece too. that porsche musta missed me by 3 feet tops. He's just bright red, big ol' guy just freaking out on this biker and the biker's just like "what? wha'd i do?" HUGE ordeal, the dood ended up callin the cops cuz they're screaming at each other and yelling and porscheboy's like "don't move you need to be a fucking witness to this." to me and was like "don't you fucking move, you piece of shit. next time i won't god damn swerve." i swear it wouldda been funny if i wasn't so pissed off about this whole thing. I left a little bit after the cop got there. judging by what the cop initially said, that biker may have actually gotten a ticket. I would assume for reckless endangerment. mostly i was happy SOMEONE called the cops cuz porscheboy was pissed enough i could have seen him killing that fuckin biker.

...sigh. and i was trying so hard not to write that story cuz it wouldda taken too long. fuckin addictive AF.

stoned_pimp420 · #13 02-03-2005, 03:29 PM

One time I was sittin at a red light and I had been sitting there for a while and so I pulled up thinking that there was a sensor or something, and about the time I pulled up about a foot, a bicycler comes outta nowhere and NAILS the front right side fender of my dad's windstar, he goes over the hood and land on the drivers side of my van, his bicycle lands on the hood, his back tire cracked the windshield, and he gets up talking about "man you were trying to hit me weren't you" so I told him to shut the hell up, I knew that he wasn't hurt because he got up quick enough bitching at me, so to get even for the dent and cracked windshield, i took off with his bicycle still on the hood, Luckily it was stuck on the wiper arms and I just left town with dude's bike, I just hope he learned a lesson, Don't hit a van with vour bike and expect to keep your bike. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

chacal · #14 02-03-2005, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by stoned_pimp420

One time I was sittin at a red light and I had been sitting there for a while and so I pulled up thinking that there was a sensor or something, and about the time I pulled up about a foot, a bicycler comes outta nowhere and NAILS the front right side fender of my dad's windstar, he goes over the hood and land on the drivers side of my van, his bicycle lands on the hood, his back tire cracked the windshield, and he gets up talking about "man you were trying to hit me weren't you" so I told him to shut the hell up, I knew that he wasn't hurt because he got up quick enough bitching at me, so to get even for the dent and cracked windshield, i took off with his bicycle still on the hood, Luckily it was stuck on the wiper arms and I just left town with dude's bike, I just hope he learned a lesson, Don't hit a van with vour bike and expect to keep your bike. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

crayzayjay · #15 02-03-2005, 04:24 PM

I used to bike it to school so i have some sympathy for bikers. However, i do agree that some of them act like they own the road, and when couples or friends cycle next to each other at 5mph on a narrow street, that pisses the fuck out of me. I just rev it behind them and make them move.

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