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Please do your research! There is so much misinformation out there and a lot of lies.

Everyone should know the truth so please try to know as much as you can so you can spread awareness and help!

I know it’s inconvenient, but this forces cars to slow down and pass appropriately when they are able to instead of squeezing by in the same lane as a biker.

I don’t cycle anymore, but I was a serious competetive road cyclist as a teenager. I competed in nationals several years in a row, and swept my state championships multiple years. This is an area where I am knowledgeable, and road safety is something I continue to be passionate about.

Here is the most critical piece of information: Bicycles are considered vehicles and have as much legal right to use the roads as cars do.

Would you be saying this if you were held up for work by a snow plow? By a slow moving tractor? By a truck with an oversized load? My single lane, tree-lined, winding country road is used by amish horse and buggy drivers, should they be disallowed?

Let me repeat that: Bicycles have as much right to the road as motor vehicles.

Just because other options exist, does not mean they are all equally good. Many larger roads are more dangerous, and large groups of cyclists can become a danger to other groups using a bike path, ASSUMING you have paved bike paths and not trails. Also, the speed limit on most bike paths is 16mph, and with dogs and toddlers effective safe speeds are often slower. When I was training for races, that was simply inadequate for everything but my recovery/low aerobic days. Yes, seriously. People whipping through bike paths at 18+mph are a serious danger.

A lot of thought goes into choosing an appropriate and safe route for riding. And yes, there are cyclists who do obnoxious or dangerous things, but the majority of the time the problem is the drivers not considering the possibility of other types of vehicles being out.

Cars have a sense of entitlement to the roads, but they are not yours exclusively.

Seriously, look in your state driving handbook.

If you can’t do a sport without driving in objectively dangerous places and demanding the locals take 20-40 minutes out of every day on the off chance that they’ve got to work around you… maybe your sport sucks ass and you should find a new hobby?

How about you start cycling huh? Its healthier and best for the environment. Get over yourself. You’re putting EVERYONE in danger with this sort of attitude. While cyclists can get killed via assholes like you, other drivers behind you can get hurt too because you are impatient and pathetic. Srsly grow the fuck up, leave ur home earlier and stop whining about people being healthier and doing an activity better for the fucking environment which effectively helps my generation and the future generations from having to fight as hard to save the fucking planet. Holy shit.

Legally all bikes are considered vehicles, including manual sport bikes. If you cant get ur shit together and accept that then u shouldnt be driving period.

I’ve lived rurally all my life. I used to bike as a hobby a couple years back. Not every area has the privilage of having bike lanes and paths, hell we are only JUST getting bike lanes and paths now where I live after god knows how many years (And let me tell you I am so excited to invest in a bike and start biking around because now I dont have to worry about drivers like you when the construction of the paths are done!)

Look. Bud. I can’t take your eyeballs out of your skull and make them read for you. I can try chopping my post into little baby pieces in case that’s easier for you to digest:

I live in the woods. I live too far away from my workplace to bike there. There is no public transportation. If I biked to and from work every day, I would spend 3+ hours every day commuting.

Even if I were physically capable of that kind of activity, the roads around here are too dangerous, and I would prefer not to die. I did not learn to ride a bike until I was eleven because there were no paved areas safe enough to practice on.

I am not driving recklessly. I am not mowing down bikers left and right. I am observing the speed limit, paying attention to my surroundings, and trying to commute to and from work as safely as possible.

My commitment to “driving safely” is WHY I get stuck behind wide squadrons of recreational tourist cyclists, rather than attempting to pass them illegally.

Recreational cyclists are not saving the environment. They’re just driving to a scenic location in order to exercise. When they are done, they put their bikes in their cars and drive home.

Something being legal does not make it less annoying.

Strangers self-righteously treating “me complaining about my commute” instead of silently adding another unproductive ~half hour to my work day as though I’m out here engaging in recreational homicide is also annoying.

The League Of American Bicyclists

My schedule was like this because my boss took almost half of my pay for the walks. I had to do back to back walks in order to pay RENT.

Your right to exercise does not trump my right to pay my fucking bills!!!!??!

Also there were bike lanes and trails just a few miles from where I had to be, they could have gladly road those but they don’t because they feel entitled to the road that is shared by two ton vehicles.

It’s always fucking tech guys or rich retirees because who else has the leisure time in the middle of a weekday to just gO fOr a RiDe 🙄

in my city, we have the “slow roll” from late spring to usually october, and it’s the inverse of the op’s problem: a slow-motion stampede of affluent suburbanites who don’t know shit about riding with traffic—let alone in an urban setting. i’ve seen these chuds block intersections for fifteen minutes. fucking with peoples’ livelihoods so they could do some poverty tourism.

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