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I just got a new bike a month ago and it's been great to get back into bike riding. I'm not what you'd call a cyclist, don't own any spandex, and don't like to ride on the road with traffic. It's just great exercise, easy on the old knees, and more fun than most other forms of exercise. I read the cycling threads on here, and the way they usually go is a bunch of posters telling the cyclists they're idiots for riding on the road with vehicles, don't understand the laws of physics, and so on and so forth. Which I kind of agree with to a point and that's why I don't like riding on the road. You never know what a driver is going to do or even if they see you. All it takes is one driver looking at their cell phone and a cyclist is toast.

So I ride in a local state park, off road on their paved trails. The trails are concrete and 8 or 9 feet wide, wide enough to comfortably pass other riders and walkers as long as everyone understands they need to leave enough room on the left to pass. Riders understand this but walkers don't. I've had people walking toward me three abreast, looking right at me and just stand there blocking the trail. Or walking the same way I'm riding, walking down the middle of the trail with earbuds so they can't hear anything behind them. Or the woman today, walking down the center of the trail with her back to me yakking on her phone, not hearing me as I ride up behind her saying "passing on your left" until I'm actually passing on her left and she pivots to the left right in front of me so I had to lock up both wheels and skid off the trail.

What is it with these lame brains? The traffic on the trails is about 75% cyclists and 25 % walkers, you'd think after about the 30th cyclist passed them a light would go on and they'd say to themselves, "there's a lot of bikers out here, I need to pay attention so I don't get run over." You know, the laws of physics and all that.

And the thing is, every single one of these idiots drove an automobile to the park.

Power to you!

Before I read your last line, I had already crafted it as a response in my mind.

We have some very good bike/pedestrian infrastructure in our area and I use it for about 90% of my miles. Most of the miles I rack up not using it are used to get to it. In some places like City Park and Audubon Park the pedestrians are miraculously disengaged. Even on a well marked path like this one, pedestrians will amble about wherever they want. The ones that walk in the bike only lane ALWAYS do it in the direction of bike traffic so that they have no idea you are coming up behind them. NOBODY knows what the center markings mean, and to think those people drive cars. I don't get in any kind of hurry on this path. It's shaded, so it makes for a nice diversion, as do the yoga pants.

Ya don't have to ride a bike to be a dumba$$.

Few things in this world are as annoying as a fûcking pedal biker.

I can think of one. Fat people on ebikes who pass me going uphill.


You know the reason they pass me going uphill? Because that's the only place they have a snowball's chance in hell of catching up to me.

85% of humans would be WELL served with a 40gr .22lr slug in the soft spot behind the ear.
Stupidity is celebrated in the USA in 2022.

Guys are always tougher when they are riding around inside their trucks.

I don't think you qualify for the azzhole bicycle brigade.
1, no spandex
2, no riding in hoards
3, you seem to have some common sense.

Tis the reason I ride just before sun up and on residential streets. I might pass a handfull of joggers/walkers, a few people out walking/jogging with their dog and maybe five vehicles driving the streets. Me and goof ball get our 5~6 miles in and are back home before the neighborhood comes alive.

The chicks don't seem to think so.

Thank you. No spandex is key. With apologies to Paul of course, he really rocks it. At least that's what he says.

I really rock a thong, but I don't want to make the boys around here feel insecure.

On a less serious note, have you found that you get into kind of a Zen-like mental space on rides? Not that it's good, but I do my best thinking beginning a few miles into a ride.

No, I'm always breathing too hard for any of that kind of sh*t.

Haha, it is good for thinking, planning the rest of the day, thinking about what I need to get done, etc.

Mind clearing for sure.

Not until they get out of their truck and waddle around!

Why don't you too [bleep] get a room and let the men talk about diesel trucks.

LOL

Like yours you're always posting pics of?

I get the mind clearing. I either jog or ruck about 4 miles a day. I just don't enjoy something between my azz cheeks enough to try biking.

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