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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here now on a full size keyboard.  This was on Macarthur on the MD side in Cabin John.  I was stopped immediately behind the bus which had already turned its red lights on.  Out of nowhere from behind me came a cyclist that passed me on the left and went into the opposing lane (where there were no cars because they had also stopped for the bus) and whipped back in front of the bus.  I assume it was a man but it all happened so quickly.  THe person was wearing lycra head to toe and had one of the thin racing bikes that becomes part of your body when you ride leaning side to side.  It was just jaw-dropping.  He was moving way too fast and would not have been able to stop if a kid had done something unpredictable.  [/quote]

Yes, the person should have stopped.[/quote]

I live in this area.  We have a large number of cyclists because of the multi-use path (used to be called a bike path) in DC, and the fact that the road has few intersections.  There seem to be two types of cyclists here -- those that casual riders, or semi-frequent riders into work from the neighborhood, and a group that I like to call 'intense and entitled cyclists'.  The second group is characterized by the affinity for breezing through 4 way stop signs (even with lots of traffic), riding on the double yellow in between traffic so as to make the light at the one-lane bridge, and generally acting as if the sound belongs to them (or should belong to them).  I admit that the second group drives me nuts -- and that speeding past a bus with flashing yellow lights sounds totally like something they would do.  (And yes, it does seem that this group more frequently dresses like they are training for the tour de france)

[b]When a bicycle is using the roadway, they must follow the rules of the road (just like a car). [/b] That is the law.

And whether or not injuries sustained when being hit by a moving car are worse that those sustained when hit by or a moving bike are irrelevant.  And just because somebody else did something worse than you, does not make what you did right.

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Not quite. When a person on a bicycle is using the roadway, they must follow the rules of the road [i]for bicyclists[/i] - just like drivers must follow the rules of the road [i]for drivers[/i]. That is the law.[/quote]

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