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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh no, because of those crazy bikers, my trip to Starbucks took an extra minute or two - what insensitive jerks!  How dare they use public roads -- which their taxes support -- to have some fun and get some exercise.  What's the point of having this expensive SUV if I can't drive it as fast as I want, wherever I want, and whenever I want - including the handful of roads in the area that I know are popular with cyclists.  Something should really be done about this!    [/quote]

No, nice try.  It's not about this -- it is about the fact that they are endangering lots of people and not obeying any rules of the road. Frankly, even if they have antipathy toward the car-driving public (which, your post strongly suggests is the case), do they not fear for their own safety?  All it takes is a pebble in the road/uneven or wet surface/ etc. for a bike to slip right into[b] that car that is stuck trailing him for miles (unable to pass on the winding road)[/b].

Also, if they are so intent on being treated as vehicles (their legal right to use the public roads, etc.), then how about the equivalent of auto-insurance for bikers, or bike-licenses (along with all the fees MOCO likes to collect when registering a car).  We drivers must maintain auto-insurance as part of our rights/responsibility to share those very same roads; we must pay a lot of money to register our cars.  Our insurance is a financial burden but comes in handy if we have or cause an accident; our car registration revenues are used to maintain the roads.   How about tax-happy-Montgomery-County establish a new "bike insurance and registration mandate" to insure that these bikers have some of those pesky responsibilities -- just like the rest of the vehicles that they so routinely inconvenience.  Hmmmm, what a great idea.  I bet there are a LOT of drivers that would support such a move.[/quote]

No this ^^ is what is really about.  Drivers don't want to wait. Tough nuts. [/quote]

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