PSA! IF YOU HAVE BIKE LANES IN FRONT OF YOUR BUILDING PLEASE SHOVEL THEM!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

Aggressive much?

No labels for the guy above who threatened a stick in the spokes of a bike?

[Anonymous]

Guys, bikes do follow predictable rules.

You need to imagine a pedestrian mixed with a presidential motorcade mixed with an ambulance. That’s what a bike will do. Adjust accordingly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

[Anonymous]

This post sums up the mental state of dc bikers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP must be aiming for a Darwin Award.

The problem is that it affects other people. Someone has to be the poor driver that hits them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

Aggressive much?

No labels for the guy above who threatened a stick in the spokes of a bike?

Some will call him a hero. I’ll only say he’s a badassmofo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

This is why I walk in the middle in the sidewalk or the middle of the trail when cyclists are around. Don't give them any space to pass because if they give them a little they will pass unsafely. It's the same idea as taking the whole lane on a road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should put a plow on your bike.

This. An e-bike should be able to push a mini-plow.

Most people who ride a bike don’t have an ebike, so this may be true but it’s also totally irrelevant.

I agree that the city should be clearing bike lanes, though, not residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

F the bikes!

And the a-hole men that ride them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

+1.

Cyclists (who I categorize differently from bikers) are very aggressive. They need to treat mixed bike-pedestrian pathways like waterways. The slower, non-mechanical boats have the right of way. Gosh — the same thing they expect on roads they share with cars. 🤔

** Bikers don’t wear Lycra, and are more casual. They may be seniors or kids or adults on the bike equivalent of a stroll. Cyclists should use 2-lane highway rules for dotted yellow lines. They should not expect slower traffic to step off the paths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

F the bikes!

And the a-hole men that ride them!

Women don't ride bikes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

The cyclist has the moral high ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

F the bikes!

And the a-hole men that ride them!

Women don't ride bikes?

Women do ride bikes. Children and teenagers also ride bikes.