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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do the bike folks always make me want to go out and run over a bunch of cyclists? Talk about the most insufferable pedants in the world... [/quote]

Can you cite specifically what has triggered you?[/quote]

I don’t want to run bikers over, but as the wife of an ‘avid’ cyclist, I can help fill in the gaps.

Complete arrogance about sharing the road with cars to the point where some will deliberately ride adjacent to each other, blocking the car, and slow to 20MPH

Viciousness towards each other if the other biker is moving too slowly for their tastes - who can forget the one biker who actually caused brain damage to another - and that was just on the trail

Most bikers think they are dividing their time between biking and family - they are not. When you are an avid cyclist riding 12+ hours per week and work full time, you don’t have much time for anything else when you add in sleeping, personal hygiene and *of course* working on your bike.

Vacations are often planned around biking, or simply aren’t a priority due to biking. When on vacation with family, they get sullen because “it’s a beautiful day and I’m not on my bike”.

Bike clubs normalize this behavior, and worse, make it seem normal[/quote]

sounds like you have a very personal beef against a very non-representative set of bike users. bike lanes are being built for people getting to work, school, stores, etc. [/quote]

Sure they are.  There's only a few dozen people that bike on Connecticut.  There's already a path for commuters on Beach.  The businesses on Connecticut are opposed and say it will harm them while the schools are located on the very side streets that will get the majority of diverted traffic.[/quote]

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