This guy gives BMW drivers a bad rep.

JCL · #24 06-12-2010, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Meiac09

Sorry, not a good reason. I've had one too many bicyclists who DON'T share the road flip me off. Bicyclists are some of the biggest hypocrites ever and can go off a cliff for all I care. Especially when they come within 6 inches of me while running up the mountain road near my school. Or on a trail when they have plenty of space. Assholes. If you're going to bike up a narrow, curving road, be situationally aware. Its at your risk. Just like me no importance whether I am running or in a car. If you want to bike and have priority, go find a trail. And don't run over the runners.

So because you have some cyclists that don't follow the traffic rules, the rest of us should be run off the road? Cyclists have legal rights on the road, same as cars, in many locations. I am not sure about California, where the video appears to have been shot. I don't want special rights, just the ones the law provides.

When I pass a runner on a shared trail, I call out "on your left" and I make sure he knows I am there. Some wave thanks, some seem to think I am asking them to stop and get out of the way, which generally I am not doing (unless they are running three abreast, taking the whole trail, and are not aware of others around them).

If I am riding on a narrow curving single lane road with no paved shoulder I will generally just move out and take the lane, instead of getting too close to the shoulder and risk being run off by cars who think they can take the whole lane. I wave cars past when it is safe for them to overtake me.

Guessing you are not a fan of the critical mass rides?

Last summer I had a nicely polished Porsche try and squeeze past me on a single lane merge when there wasn't room (we were both stopped, I was in front on my bike, waiting for traffic to open). His top was down. I asked him what he thought he was doing. He said he was going through the space because it was a road, the inference being that I should be on the sidewalk. I thought of unclipping my left cycling shoe and showing him my steel cleats, which were 8" from his nicely polished door. I was still considering whether it would feel better to centre punch the door, or drag the cleats down to his rear fender. I did neither, but it was a comforting thought. My point? Jerks come in cars too, not just on bikes. You can't judge society in general classes like all cyclists are jerks.