Bicyclists who blow through stop signs (eating, weight, maintain, walking)

[plaidmom]

Originally Posted by Bosco55David

I know a guy who just recently got a speeding ticket on his bicycle. Boy, was he pissed.

Actually, that is very very cool. I would frame that sucker.

[Huckleberry3911948]

toes on the ground every stop sign im on it.

[plaidmom]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

toes on the ground every stop sign im on it.

I know how to track stand.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948

toes on the ground every stop sign im on it.

In your car?

[broadbill]

Originally Posted by Chorizo

For me, I see three kinds of bicyclists. The Lance Armstrong-Brightly Colored ones, kids, and people who ride a bike because they have no other means of transportation.

If you take the kids out of the equation, 100% of the time, when I see a cyclist breaking the laws of the road, or doing stupid things in the roadway, its Lance Armstrong doing it.
If you leave the kids in the equation, I say 9/10 times, its the guy in the rainbow tights.

I find that amusing.

What I find amusing is that whenever a motorist posts on CD to complain about cyclists, it always comes around to how the cyclist is dressed...

Interesting, no?

So what is it??....are you jealous of how my well-muscled butt looks in those rainbow tights?

Or maybe you are jealous of how your wife/gf stares out the window at my well-muscled butt giving her that "quivery feeling" all over?

Or maybe my well-muscled butt is giving YOU that quivery feeling all over...

Its OK....we cyclists know we have that effect on people....

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by broadbill

What I find amusing is that whenever a motorist posts on CD to complain about cyclists, it always comes around to how the cyclist is dressed...

Interesting, no?

So what is it??....are you jealous of how my well-muscled butt looks in those rainbow tights?

Or maybe you are jealous of how your wife/gf stares out the window at my well-muscled butt giving her that "quivery feeling" all over?

Or maybe my well-muscled butt is giving YOU that quivery feeling all over...

Its OK....we cyclists know we have that effect on people....

LMAO

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Bosco55David

I know a guy who just recently got a speeding ticket on his bicycle. Boy, was he pissed.

I got a ticket thrown out, it was for being in the car right of way or some carp. I was doing almost 50 mph going down a steep mt and passed some local cop who thought I shouldn't be in the middle of the lane. The thing of it was that I was coming up on cars, not them on me because of the twisties. His speach to me was that I was to stay in the bike lane on the right side.

At 50 mph

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

I got a ticket thrown out, it was for being in the car right of way or some carp. I was doing almost 50 mph going down a steep mt and passed some local cop who thought I shouldn't be in the middle of the lane. The thing of it was that I was coming up on cars, not them on me because of the twisties. His speach to me was that I was to stay in the bike lane on the right side.

At 50 mph

Dang, I have only been up to 48.6. Your vision gets really myopic.

[TexasRandi]

Originally Posted by drjones96

There are a few cyclists out there who give all of us law abiding cyclists a bad name.

Jones is right, just because there are a few cyclists out there who disobey doesn't mean we are all like that, and definitely doesn't mean we should wish bad things upon them. But believe me, I have seen entirely too many stupid cyclists out on the road who do things that are asking for them to get hurt (and they are asking for it themselves, not that they deserve to get hurt in any way).

I am a cyclist and I do expect to be treated like a vehicle because when I am on my bike I am one! Where I live there are a lot of bike paths, thank goodness, but there are also places where there are not bike paths and I have no choice but to ride on the road with everyone else. I follow the same laws as vehicles and I try my best to be courteous to drivers (i.e., not passing them on the side when stopped at an intersection, driving as close to the side of the road as possible so as not to back up the lane, etc).

I do on occasion run a stop sign but that is when absolutely no one is around and it's in a quiet residential neighborhood.

The thing some people don't understand is when you are on a bike and have to start going, it is difficult. Just like a car, we cannot go from 0 to max speed in a few seconds... it takes a while! A lot of motorists I have dealt with get extremely impatient when we stop and take a while to get up to speed again. That's certainly not going to make me personally run a stop sign, but I'm sure there are plenty of lazy cyclists out there that use this excuse to blow through a stop sign.

Originally Posted by broadbill

Although I don't condone cyclists disobeying traffic rules, I'm disgusted to hear all of the motorists in this thread who intentionally go out of their way to harass cyclists. The reasons why you go out of your way to harass them is equally shocking: to prevent them from possibly breaking a traffic law, that they are wearing funny shorts, that they think they own the road...etc., etc.

Are you guys listening to yourselves?

Originally Posted by thegirlinaz

Don't even get me started on bicyclists... they think they own the road as a 'vehicle', yet disobey common driving laws (like running stop signs!).

And yes, motorists get away with running stop signs and all kinds of other traffic violations just as much, so the fact that people are upset about that is disgusting.

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

Or just want to maim them? Let me point something out, too. It may not be using the same words or that is not what that poster had in mind, but he needs to know that hitting a cyclist results a lot in actually killing the cyclist. Check out the Ride of Silence website. What was he wanting to do, come up behind a cyclist and gently tap his rear wheel with his bumper, to teach the cyclist a lesson? That has happend here a few times, with cars tapping the rear wheels of a cyclists and rear wheels of motorcyclists. The results were the same, all of them are now dead. Or was he merely wanting to T-bone a cyclist? Yeah that'll show him. I don't believe that would end any more favorably for the cyclist either. Whatever was meant by it, it is a sick fantasy that would result in killing someone if actually acted upon. As he said, the only thing that is preventing him from doing it, is his fear that he wouldn't get away with it. That's speaks volumes about a person. Cyclists have to worry about traffic that doesn't see them. The last thing they want to have to worry about are the idiot drivers that "target" them, as well.

Well, if they are stupid enough to blow through stop signs then they should expect to get hit sooner or later. Intentional or not does make a difference to the driver, who is either going to be affected for the rest of their lives because they innocently killed someone, or sit in jail because they meant to hit someone (moron). Either way dead is dead. Perhaps the cyclists last thought will be. "Maybe I should have obeyed the law and not been so arrogant as to run that stop si..."

There are miles, and miles, and miles, and miles of bike trails here. Partway down this page is a box headed Iowa Trails which has a scroll bar to the right. Take a look at how many there are and how many miles they cover.

BIKEIOWA, your site to Iowa biking, Bike Rides, bicycle information, Teams, Clubs, bike trails, Iowa, Des Moines Trails

And even with all these trails cyclists are riding on county roads where you can look over and see the trail! These are the roads the farmers have to use to get to their fields and deliver their crops. You tell me what is wrong with that picture?

And we have RAGBRAI every year. If you like to ride and you haven't, you should. You dip your rear wheel in the Missouri River, spend a week riding across Iowa, then dip the front wheel in the Mississippi. The cool thing (aside from all the partying!) is that there have been very few accidents. I wish I was physically able to ride on this.

RAGBRAI

But on topic: bike riders should be intelligent enough to follow the laws like everyone else. Unfortunately, like everyone else, not all riders do.