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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Pedestrians really need to do a better job of paying attention before stepping out into a crosswalk. They look for cars, but are utterly oblivious to cyclists.

When you consider the fact that it requires a great amount of physical exertion to get a bike up to speed from a complete stop, then you'd understand why stepping out into a crosswalk in front of an approaching cyclist is a total dick-move. You force the bike rider to slow or even stop, just so you can sashay across the street without waiting an additional five seconds for them to pedal by. 
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It doesnt require THAT much exertion. That why I, like 95% of cyclists, slow or stop as required by safety at stop signs and red lights.   When we do not, it is because we deem it safe (at some red lights safer than waiting for turning traffic - a similar motive to some jaywalking pedestrians btw)

[quote]Now the rider has to work again to get back to their [b]preferred cruising speed[/b]. [/quote]

Ive never heard an actual cyclist refer to this term.

[quote]It has real consequences. You are literally causing them to exert themselves harder than they should, all because you are a self absorbed jerk. 
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I know people who seek out hills.  One reason though I do not want to lose momentum is precisely because if I do, and go more slowly on an uphill, I will get honked at more and that is uncomfortable.  Someone who actually rode in the city would know that.

[quote]This is why so many riders have taken to screaming at or buzzing pedestrians.[/quote]

Really, I don't see that.  Not at crosswalks certainly. Hell, Ive even learned to just shrug my shoulders at the folks who walk in bike lanes.

[quote]Disgusting [/quote] sock puppeting is indeed disgusting.  as is your obsession with nerds,[/quote]

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