I'm all about being athletic and good health, doing it on a roadway, designed for automobiles is not the place. The road our house is on is a major bike challenge. It starts at 5500' and goes to 8500' in a matter of 15 miles or so. It's curvy, no shoulders, and full of blind curves. In the summer, it's a stream of bikers wanting a challenge. So many bikers that we have to wait to exit our driveway. Every year 1-4 of them die or get seriously hurt by cars. (Same with motorcycles hitting 100mph on the same road). It's never the bikers fault though, that's the sucky part. Always the driver. Right... Who has the insurance? The driver. I've done enough expert witness (on other types of cases) to know deep pockets get blamed for a lot of things that wasn't their fault.
When roads are designed for bikers, and bikers pay license plate fees, and are required to have insurance, have headlights/taillights like motorcycles, I'll be open to it. I have no issues with mountain bikers on designated trails, none.
The law provides the framework for determining who is at fault. If a motorist is required to yield right of way, and doesn't, why would it not be their fault?
IF ANYBODY was operating a car or a lawn tractor on the same road, at 7mph, it’d be an automatic ticket for “impeding the flow of traffic”.
Would it be a ticket for a hunter pulling a horse trailer at 5 MPH below the speed limit?
5 mph below the speed limit is not illegal. “Speed Limit refers to the Maximum speed you can drive. You have to be going a lot slower than 50 mph in a 55 zone to be considered going to slow. You are an intelligent person but when it comes to this whole bike thing why are you purposely obtuse about it?
He is simply trying to prove why people think bicyclists are “subhuman”, and doing a fantastic job at it. Their avocation (recreation)is more important than you getting to your vocation (job)...
