What’s up with the bike rage?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. The offenders were middle aged white men? These men carry serious chips on their shoulders and consider themselves victims.

It’s definitely a small subset of cyclists who are like this, and certainly not EVERY middle aged white male cyclist is an a-hole, but the ones who are jerks are almost always in that demographic.

+1

MOST.

Please there are the same number of entitled obnoxious white females as there are white men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. The offenders were middle aged white men? These men carry serious chips on their shoulders and consider themselves victims.

It’s definitely a small subset of cyclists who are like this, and certainly not EVERY middle aged white male cyclist is an a-hole, but the ones who are jerks are almost always in that demographic.

+1

MOST.

Please there are the same number of entitled obnoxious white females as there are white men.

NP. They are definitely overwhelmingly middle aged white men. PP mentioned the male entitlement to space was spot on. It's obviously this entitlement is so completely ingrained in most men and most male cyclists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me guess. The offenders were middle aged white men? These men carry serious chips on their shoulders and consider themselves victims.

It’s definitely a small subset of cyclists who are like this, and certainly not EVERY middle aged white male cyclist is an a-hole, but the ones who are jerks are almost always in that demographic.

+1

MOST.

Please there are the same number of entitled obnoxious white females as there are white men.

There really aren’t. Go take a walk on the Mt Vernon trail during rush hour or on a weekend and count. It’s very obvious.

[Anonymous]

We had our kids with us in Rock Creek Park one weekend and a group of bicyclists came around a corner like bats out of hell. One woman turned back and screamed at us, "God damn families think they own the road." Yikes!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had our kids with us in Rock Creek Park one weekend and a group of bicyclists came around a corner like bats out of hell. One woman turned back and screamed at us, "God damn families think they own the road." Yikes!!

I would love to take my kid there to practice biking but I'm scared of those crazies!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^ that's a great sign, and I obey it when I drive. I also obey it as a pedestrian (running/walking) on trails.

It would be really, really nice if cyclists practiced what they preached and passed pedestrians slowly, courteously, and with ample distance - instead of zipping between lanes and often side swiping, startling pedestrians.

The PP who posted the sign was responding to the misguided poster who blames her almost-head on collision on cyclists legally taking the lane instead of the negligent driver who swerved into her lane because he failed to see them in time. There are many examples of dreadful behavior cyclists from this thread (and in real life, every minute around this area), but that PP didn't seem familiar with the concept of taking the lane.

It sounded like the illegal and dangerous passes I see all the time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In response to your comments above, recently I almost got killed by a vehicle that crossed a double line onto my lane because he rounded a curve (50mph zone) and there were two idiots riding bikes in the middle of the two-lane narrow road. He either took them out or crossed the double yellow line. He crossed the double yellow line. I came around the next curve and found him on my lane. In a split second, it was either take out the spandex jerk-offs to my left, or drive my car into a ditch to my right. Thank God I had an option, and drove my car into a ditch. I had no choice. The bicyclists never stopped, never indicated in any way they almost caused a tragedy, and as far as I know they couldn't have cared less. They clearly saw my car driven into the ditch, and unless they're brain-dead, they understood what happened.

Now, what is that you're saying about stopping the stereotyping?

It's time to hold them accountable for their extremely irresponsible behavior.

I’m no fan of cyclists in general, but the situation you describe is the fault of the driver who ran you off the road. If he needed to swerve into oncoming traffic, it was because he took the corner too quickly to be able to safely react to whatever might have been around the bend.

I’m one of the first posters who now lives close to Persimmon Tree Road where ther are a lot of blind curves. I’ve given the possibility of this exact situation some thought and if it should arise I will take the cyclists out. I have young kids and they are stupid.

Slow down. We all have kids and families.

Also, when the cyclists are using the lane, they're actually doing what they're supposed to be doing. If the cyclists are really smack in the middle of the road, that's a whole different story.

[Anonymous]

Yes there are jerks everywhere (cyclists, drivers, walkers). But, as a cyclist I am now officially scared of all the anti-men, anti-cyclist posters on this forum. I guess I’ll just ride my Pelaton instead and stay safe and also not bother your use of public roads and paths. Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it SEEM there are more cyclist-car or cyclist-pedestrian complaints than pedestrian-car complaints?

I'm not sure it's true but cyclists are sharing the road with drivers much of the time, whereas pedestrian-driver conflicts tend to happen mostly in crosswalks or near them.

Plus drivers apparently realize they need to coexist with pedestrians but it's not clear they recognize the same with cyclists.

Cyclists don’t ever appear to want to coexist with pedestrians.

I bike and I'm incredibly deferential to pedestrians. 110% when they have the right of way, but even when they jaywalk in front of me. I'm just not going to hit you.

Same way I'd like people driving cars to treat me.