Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Bicyclists causing trouble in traffic.....again.

Common sense.

You’re proof of that.

Bicycle riders are always getting into trouble in the park.

They're more of a nuisance than the bears.

Avalanche Strands Cyclists on Glacier Park’s Sun Road

They use to allow early access to the road for bikes before it would open for the season for cars.

They've gotten away from that due to such events.

Let’s see ! In the fist picture their taking up the entire road. In the next picture their taking up the whole left lane! Now in Michigan that is illegal, in La nothing is illegal I guess!

Pedal cyclist has the same rights, and the same responsibilities, to the road as a motorist in Texas.

You won't see many around here though. Too many welders.

You can rail against human nature all you want, ain’t gonna change anything. Traffic laws ain’t gonna save you either. Ride a bike in the roadway you’re liable to get run over, just the way it is. I figure the odds are maybe a tad less than a pedestrian in the road getting hit but that’s just conjecture on my part.

Anyhoo... I put in my regular ten on the bike alongside commuter traffic today.

Whoever is behind them taking the pic's.
If the photographer is one of the group, he is o the wrong side of the road - as were others in the previous pic.
Evidently, crossing the centerline is OK for bicyclists, but not motorists?
Are bicyclists required to stay as far right as feasible, when there is no designated bike lane?

When I look at those pictures, I see arrogance on display.

FWIW, I have nothing against bicyclists who do it right - but that seems to be a rare breed, anymore.

Coming from you?
A compliment, thanks

"After clearing the rockslide, and ensuring that the avalanche had stabilized, park staff began to clear a path through the avalanche to gain access to the stranded cyclists. The 13 cyclists were trapped on the other side of the slide for about eight hours. Park officials said they were cold, but otherwise in good spirits. Park officials said the men passed the time playing "hide the salami" to the dismay of rescuers arriving on the scene.

13 bicycle idiots trapped on the wrong side of a pile of snow for 8 hours and not one of them could figure out what to do about it?

Where's that infamous man eating Glacier Park Grizzly when ya need him?

Sure thing, Booster Boy.

LOL

Every one of them was a Biden voter too.

Just like your dumb ass.

LOL

It is most likely that it is a member of their group or another cyclist taking the photo. My point is that there is no need to imagine that those cyclists are creating a problem. Almost all states use the words "far right as practicable." Not possible. That language was purposefully chosen. It allows the cyclist to take a position at other places on the road for a number of reasons. For example when I ride, I ride pretty much center lane. It makes me more visible to others, it makes drivers less likely to do a brush pass, and it makes them more likely to treat me like traffic. Once I am confident a vehicle coming up from behind sees me, I ease over an they go around without delay. If I ride with another person or a group, I'll ride side by side. That's allowed in every state whose bicycle law I have read. Riding side by side makes us "easier to see" for those who might claim a bicyclist is "hard to see." Again, when traffic comes up from behind, I accommodate them.

I reckon someone will see that as arrogant. I can only say that I won't apologize for riding a bicycle on the road, I won't take kindly to being bullied and I do care about those I share the road with and will work cooperatively with them.

"Rail against nature." LOL. I simply put things into their proper perspective.

Most all of us that have basic understanding of human psychology realize your continued bashing of others in these threads is actually you projecting all those character flaws you despise in yourself upon others.

It's kinda cute in a way, most of us have the compassion to let it slide, you're just our little pet problemed child.

But voting for Biden?
That's a bridge too far, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Now go sit in your corner until you can say you're sorry

I reckon some will see this as arrogant: I won't apologize for believing bikes don't belong on the road for recreational activity, I don't take kindly to them being on the road phoucking off on said road and most of them I've encountered do not care or cooperate with anything other than their Lance Armstrong wet dreams. Except to the point they get hit or run off the road.

Does anyone have pics of those bastards playing 4 man badminton in the middle of those mountain passes? Oh right....

Please feel free to post more dumb, disconnected responses.

The term was “rail against human nature”, not the same thing.

As usual you dismiss as irrelevant the irritation almost every motorist feels in the pictured situations, exactly like the cyclists in the photos.

What the proper perspective is; those cyclists are making it incumbent on the drivers to avoid permanently mangling their flesh and bones, they are doing this by moving much slower than the flow of traffic while riding in the lane.

I don’t see much substantive difference between that and just walking in the traffic lane with your back to traffic obliging cars to go around you. Neither does almost everybody else.

I’m just grateful I’m allowed to do it. But, if I get hit while doing that, it’s all on me.

The OP is about stupid phouckers that shouldn't be on the road; a pissed up redneck driving a truck and a family that thinks its a perfectly logical idea to play in the street.

You're the mental midget with the disconnect, but keep "pedaling" the notion that half of that stupidity isn't stupid.

You are welcome to try to describe specifically what is stupid in the OP and specifically why. You won't though.

You are on a roll, would you like to try to go 3 for 3?