Who Are the Annoying People Who Ride Their Bikes on River Road During Morning Rush Hour???

[Anonymous]

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When the vast majority of people commute using cars, and lanes were designed to fit cars, not tricycles, then of course you are congesting and causing the roads. You, of course, know this, unless you have some kind of cognitive difficulty, and that's where the deliberate obtuseness comes into play. You're not fooling anyone, and simply causing the already rampant hatred of tricyclists to grow.

Lanes are designed to fit trucks, actually. Cars don't need 12-foot lanes. People should keep their cars off the road; they get in the way of trucks.

The vast majority of people commute using cars. You are congesting and clogging the road on your tricycle. And making yourself look like an ass.

In DC fewer than 40% commute by car. In Arlington just barely over 50% drive alone.

Where do you live?

Also your continued reference to "tricycles" makes you look like an ass. I hope all the fence sitters reading this can see what we are dealing with.

[Anonymous]

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Just to be safe, I will lay on my horn loudly, to ensure a tricyclist like yourself is not caught unawares and wanders into my path. Very thoughtful of me, I think. Get ready.

No, it's illegal. At least in Maryland. It's also dangerous and aggressive.

Shrug. It's dangerous and aggressive to drive down a major thoroughfare on a trike, so I guess we're all playing with fire.

[Anonymous]

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Do you live anywhere that cyclists frequent? I live off Persimmon Tree Road in Bethesda. It's a lot of rolling hills that are very attractive to cyclists all week long. The hills mean you don't have a sightline to pass and have to wait til you crest the hill. Some drivers don't realize that you have to wait for the sightline and pass blindly, potentially leading to a head-on collision.
Over the years that I've lived on this road my dislike of cyclists has grown. They are out getting exercise and I'm trying to get somewhere. Mean while alongside the road there is a lovely paved path that is not used by many people. I decided long ago that should an accident situation happen I'm taking out the cyclist and moving to the right rather than risk a head-on collision.

But many bicyclists are also trying to get somewhere. And other bicyclists are out on optional trips, just as you are often out on optional trips in your car. And as people operating vehicles (i.e., their bicycles), they are entitled to use the road, just as you are entitled to use the road while operating your vehicle (i.e., your car).

I get stuck behind bicyclists sometimes when I'm driving. Sometimes I have to wait 30 seconds before it's safe to pass. If I can't stand to wait 30 seconds, or if I'm late because I had to wait 30 seconds, that's on me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I run a camera on my helmet. Drivers should be aware that if they participate in dangerous and illegal behavior they may be held to account.

I’m quaking in my boots waiting for the cops to come to my door about my honking at you. Good luck, trike.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You're so sporty in your sport utility vehicle.

And you look so cool in your skintight shorts on your trike. A regular James Dean.

Bike clothing is functional. Not that I would expect you to know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Just to be safe, I will lay on my horn loudly, to ensure a tricyclist like yourself is not caught unawares and wanders into my path. Very thoughtful of me, I think. Get ready.

No, it's illegal. At least in Maryland. It's also dangerous and aggressive.

Shrug. It's dangerous and aggressive to drive down a major thoroughfare on a trike, so I guess we're all playing with fire.

Scofflaw drivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I run a camera on my helmet. Drivers should be aware that if they participate in dangerous and illegal behavior they may be held to account.

I’m quaking in my boots waiting for the cops to come to my door about my honking at you. Good luck, trike.

Honking is not dangerous to cyclists. It might annoy the neighbors though.

[Anonymous]

Some of these aggressive and hostile drivers might be happier if they spent less time in their car and more time on a bike.

[Anonymous]

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Absolutely no comparison to the slowness added by one car vs one bike. You're holding up traffic, being deliberately obtuse and smug about it, and then you wonder why cars hate you and honk at you. You get what you give.

When you're spending all that time in traffic, it's not because of people on bikes. It's because of you in your car, and me in my car, and all those other people in their cars, all trying to go places in our cars at the same time.

And then, of course, there are buses, which stop and hold up the cars behind them. And people crossing the street on foot -- when I'm driving and stop at a crosswalk (as the law requires) to let people walk across, often other people in cars have to stop behind me. Are people on buses and people on foot also being deliberately obtuse, smug, and obstructionist (of people in cars)?

I have yet to have seen anyone walk on foot across river road, and it’s a road I’ve travelled on every day for maybe 15 years. So yes, that would be impeding traffic. But nothing- nothing compares to getting stuck behind a slow, useless tricyclist for several miles, barely managing to hoof it up a hill. That’s where the honk and 3-inch blow by comes in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I run a camera on my helmet. Drivers should be aware that if they participate in dangerous and illegal behavior they may be held to account.

I’m quaking in my boots waiting for the cops to come to my door about my honking at you. Good luck, trike.

Poe's law invoked.

I swear I am not doing the trike posts to make the bike haters look bad. I hope none of my fellow bike riders are doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I run a camera on my helmet. Drivers should be aware that if they participate in dangerous and illegal behavior they may be held to account.

I’m quaking in my boots waiting for the cops to come to my door about my honking at you. Good luck, trike.

Honking is not dangerous to cyclists. It might annoy the neighbors though.

I'm glad you think so. That's why I will use this considerate technique on all cyclists I see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I run a camera on my helmet. Drivers should be aware that if they participate in dangerous and illegal behavior they may be held to account.

I’m quaking in my boots waiting for the cops to come to my door about my honking at you. Good luck, trike.

Honking is not dangerous to cyclists. It might annoy the neighbors though.

It certainly is dangerous to cyclists. Nobody can operate a vehicle safely when suddenly startled by a loud noise right next to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

When the vast majority of people commute using cars, and lanes were designed to fit cars, not tricycles, then of course you are congesting and causing the roads. You, of course, know this, unless you have some kind of cognitive difficulty, and that's where the deliberate obtuseness comes into play. You're not fooling anyone, and simply causing the already rampant hatred of tricyclists to grow.

Lanes are designed to fit trucks, actually. Cars don't need 12-foot lanes. People should keep their cars off the road; they get in the way of trucks.

The vast majority of people commute using cars. You are congesting and clogging the road on your tricycle. And making yourself look like an ass.

In DC fewer than 40% commute by car. In Arlington just barely over 50% drive alone.

Where do you live?

Also your continued reference to "tricycles" makes you look like an ass. I hope all the fence sitters reading this can see what we are dealing with.

+1000 He sounds like a raving lunatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I run a camera on my helmet. Drivers should be aware that if they participate in dangerous and illegal behavior they may be held to account.

I’m quaking in my boots waiting for the cops to come to my door about my honking at you. Good luck, trike.

Poe's law invoked.

I swear I am not doing the trike posts to make the bike haters look bad. I hope none of my fellow bike riders are doing that.

Don't worry about it dude, nothing could make the bicyclists look any worse than they already do. That war's been won.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have yet to have seen anyone walk on foot across river road, and it’s a road I’ve travelled on every day for maybe 15 years. So yes, that would be impeding traffic. But nothing- nothing compares to getting stuck behind a slow, useless tricyclist for several miles, barely managing to hoof it up a hill. That’s where the honk and 3-inch blow by comes in.

That depends on which part of River Road.

And no, crossing the road on foot is not impeding traffic.

If you're really this hostile behind the wheel in real life, and not just carrying on for fun on DCUM, that's scary for all of us. Please seek counseling before you seriously injure or kill someone else, or yourself, while driving.