bicycle riders drive me crazy!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup, me too!

I actually think they should be banned on all major roads such as Connecticut Ave, Constitution Ave, etc. They slow down traffic so much that I don't think it's worth it.

Agreed on the condition they build us a protected bike line.

Why would we spend more tax dollars on bike lanes when bikers don't use the ones already built for them?

It's so weird how people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. I don't understand it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup, me too!

I actually think they should be banned on all major roads such as Connecticut Ave, Constitution Ave, etc. They slow down traffic so much that I don't think it's worth it.

Agreed on the condition they build us a protected bike line.

Why would we spend more tax dollars on bike lanes when bikers don't use the ones already built for them?

It's so weird how people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. I don't understand it.

I still need to figure out how to use my magical ability to come out of nowhere to my advantage.

Like, hire me as a ninja?

[Anonymous]

I’m to the left of Leon Trotsky and cyclists annoy me because of their privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m to the left of Leon Trotsky and cyclists annoy me because of their privilege.

Which privilege? The biggest group of cyclists in Montgomery County (where I live) is Latino men riding their bikes on the sidewalk for transportation. "Privilege" is not a word I would typically associate with this group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup, me too!

I actually think they should be banned on all major roads such as Connecticut Ave, Constitution Ave, etc. They slow down traffic so much that I don't think it's worth it.

Agreed on the condition they build us a protected bike line.

Why would we spend more tax dollars on bike lanes when bikers don't use the ones already built for them?

It's so weird how people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. I don't understand it.

I think if people became magically invisible once they got on a bike we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m to the left of Leon Trotsky and cyclists annoy me because of their privilege.

You can either look at data or open your eyes to who is really biking around. Sure, the a-hole in lycra is really obvious, but you're ignoring the guys on the way to a construction site, parents with their kids, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup, me too!

I actually think they should be banned on all major roads such as Connecticut Ave, Constitution Ave, etc. They slow down traffic so much that I don't think it's worth it.

Agreed on the condition they build us a protected bike line.

Why would we spend more tax dollars on bike lanes when bikers don't use the ones already built for them?

It's so weird how people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. I don't understand it.

I think if people became magically invisible once they got on a bike we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

It's BECAUSE people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. The only people on bikes the "bicycle riders drive me crazy" PPs see are: the middle-aged men in bike-branded jerseys and $2,000 bikes who get in the way of them in their $50,000 motor vehicles. Those PPs don't see me, or kids on bikes, or low-income people (mostly men) riding to work (mostly on the sidewalk), or people of whatever variety who are using the rare good bike lanes in the area. Those PPs see only the bicycle riders they expect to see, and only when those bicycle riders get in their way.

I will agree that there are rarely people on bikes in the bad, dangerous bike lanes, but that's because people on bikes very reasonably decline to ride in bad, dangerous bike lanes. For example, the one near me, that consists of painted lines on a 6-lane road with a 40 mph speed limit, across merges to highway on and off ramps. Nobody rides in that one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup, me too!

I actually think they should be banned on all major roads such as Connecticut Ave, Constitution Ave, etc. They slow down traffic so much that I don't think it's worth it.

Agreed on the condition they build us a protected bike line.

Why would we spend more tax dollars on bike lanes when bikers don't use the ones already built for them?

It's so weird how people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. I don't understand it.

I think if people became magically invisible once they got on a bike we probably wouldn't be having this conversation.

It's BECAUSE people become magically invisible once they get on a bike. The only people on bikes the "bicycle riders drive me crazy" PPs see are: the middle-aged men in bike-branded jerseys and $2,000 bikes who get in the way of them in their $50,000 motor vehicles. Those PPs don't see me, or kids on bikes, or low-income people (mostly men) riding to work (mostly on the sidewalk), or people of whatever variety who are using the rare good bike lanes in the area. Those PPs see only the bicycle riders they expect to see, and only when those bicycle riders get in their way.

I will agree that there are rarely people on bikes in the bad, dangerous bike lanes, but that's because people on bikes very reasonably decline to ride in bad, dangerous bike lanes. For example, the one near me, that consists of painted lines on a 6-lane road with a 40 mph speed limit, across merges to highway on and off ramps. Nobody rides in that one.

You and the good bikers you mentioned are exempt (plus I live near the CC trail-no on and off ramps there).