Riding home from work

Frosty Rider said:

Cyclists are bad for that in this city, they will take up a full lane, or even two lanes and if you honk they get pissed at you, like what the hell are you doing driving a car on their roads, they are called the bicycult here, i had to go teach a riding course one day, and they wouldn't move, so i drove my bike right up the middle of the pack, they were pissed but no one said a word to me at the stop light. and Cabs here are mental, they will u-turn in front of you, share your lane, one got mad at a cyclist and ran him off the road right downtown, another one got mad at a longboarder and pulled his cab into the guy forcing him to hit the curb and guy on the board went head first into a light post and died there, cabby is up for 2nd degree murder on that, hopefully they nail him for it. I have a few pull out in front of me and then when you mention it to them its always, I didn't see you, to which it is usually Well if you would open your $%^^&%$ing eyes and actually look around you might see me.

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EasTexRIII said:

Yea, actually I hate em. I used to ride in large packs back in the day when cyclists knew how to ride in groups & still stay out of vehicles way...... Now days, there are so many of them & they are tar-tard's & they DO think they own the road. They ride 2 abreast & when a car is coming they won't file into a single line like we did back in the day. Oh for the good ole days.... I ride solo on non busy back roads only these days - Hell, maybe that's why that Lady tried to run me off the road, she probably thought I was one of them. looking back on it I shouldn't be mad at her!

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R3T-Too said:

Yeah, you were probably paying for someone elses douchebaggery.

I think the same thing happens to us motorized 2-wheelers too. I get a lot more rude cage drivers when I'm on my bright red FJR1300. People see it and think it looks like a hooligan bike when it's really just as much of a geezer bike at a streetglide.

"Share the road" seems to mean "get out of my way" to some people whether it's a Huffy or GSXR.

I was riding down a back road with a 40mph limit on a long straight section. A group of 15-20 cyclists were coming toward me and several of them were over the yellow line in my lane. I rode/stayed in the left 3rd of the lane and at first didn't think anything of it.
As we came closer & closer, I could see these asshats thought it was my responsibility to move to the far side of my lane, for what purpose I still can't fathom.
It would have been easy to give them the room; but my inner jerk got the best of me and I decided to test their resolve.
I wouldn't want to estimate the distance; but within five or six seconds to impact the stray "doggies" pushed their way back into the herd and out of my lane. Shooting the middle finger at me as I passed.
I can only imagine what respect someone driving behind them would have gotten.

Of course; I wouldn't have hit the clowns, but d*mn! Sometimes you just want to let people with such little sense of self preservation get what's coming to them.

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EasTexRIII said:

I've seen it too many times to count and that's Zackly why I had to quit riding with the douche cannons! Sometimes when I'm in my 2003 Suburban Z71 4X4 & come up on them, even though (or because) I know some of them....... I have "bad thoughts"

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EasTexRIII said:

I've seen it too many times to count and that's Zackly why I had to quit riding with the douche cannons! Sometimes when I'm in my 2003 Suburban Z71 4X4 & come up on them, even though (or because) I know some of them....... I have "bad thoughts"

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Slyanide said:

Good for you not slapping his teeth out of his head, over the years I have "mellowed" out like that myself. Not worth the trouble of a dust up, I have still not broken myself completely from flipping an jack wagon driver off.

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