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What about sisterfugk Texas?

That'd be more believable if you showed a little empathy for people that drive cars on the road.

cousinfugging...thats texas.....none of that kinda stuff goes on in montana....I think.....bob

Naaa-ah.

I am sure they have it bad too.

This thread has been hilarious. A thread about a drunk plowing into a family quickly, predictably, devolves into bicycle bashing. Of course I'll show up to do my part. The thread drifts and photos of bicyclists on the road are served up as proof of how stupid they are and how they are breaking the law. When pressed to describe exactly who the pictured cyclists were affecting, nobody could. No surprise there. My contention is, and the reality is, that bicyclists on the road are the least of any drivers issues and that most of the issues exist in the imagination.

Well, we come to find out that the road the cyclists were on was closed to motor vehicle traffic that day. LOLOLOL. The motorists that were imagined to be impacted weren't even allowed on the road that day. Then those perpetually aggrieved anti-cyclists moved the target to "well, they weren't affecting anyone, but it was a perfect example of the horrors we face behind the wheel every day." LOLOL. I don't need anyone to say "yeah, Paul, you were right" (I know I am) but the manly thing to do is say, "you got us this time Paul." But nope, then it all becomes about "Paul is mean" "Paul is arrogant" "Birdwatcher cucks up to us antis, and Paul won't."

Along the way, I dangled some bait that got hit impressively hard.

Then there is always this value in these discussions. In a forum full of the manliest, toughest, freedom loving people on earth, we learn that they want to suppress a cyclist's legal right to be on the road, and they think we should be scared [bleep] to ride on the road. I kinda get the latter. They do drive after all.

paul is arrogant...the bird is not....who hit the bait on that one?...lol.....bob

Did you forget already? I have repeatedly said I am empathetic and cooperative enough to move over. But that becomes "clueless bike rider swerving around" to those that need to be aggrieved. That's you, by the way.

I prefer the word cocksure, but I won't argue.

This. And the fact that he's Adonis-like just pisses people off even more.



You know Adonis? LaQueesha's boy?

It has nothing to do with being aggrieved.
It's simply making a fair assessment of possible road hazards ahead.

Bike swerving in and out of lane vs bike consistently riding fog line.

Pretty simple.

One's a hazard, the other not.

I missed that comment about just fugking with people here. I am stone cold serious with a little of what I type.

My next sockpuppet is going to be named Adonisthecocksure.

There's no swerving involved. There's a purposeful gravitation to the right, accompanied by a look over the shoulder, and sometimes a wave around. Hell, when I am driving a 2 lane road and someone comes up behind me, I'll move as far right as I can. That allows the motorist to see around me and if they are thinking, it lets them know that I know they are there and working with them. I get your point about motorists not generally being smart enough to pick up on cues.

Mike has common sense.

Have you ridden bicycles on the road or studied bicycle safety? If not, you are too ignorant to make that comment. That would be like you jumping into a knitting thread and pronouncing on knitter more common-sensical than another. I hope I am right about you not being a knitting expert.

Yeah, I know. I'm not sure what it is between bikers and non-bikers. Kind of a territoriality thing I think. There are a lot of bike lanes here on the shoulder of two-lane roads in neighborhoods with 30 mph speed limits. When I pass a bike in the lane I'll always move into the middle and give them a wide berth if there's no traffic coming the other way because the last thing I want to do is hit one of them. Takes no effort on my part and is just a courteous thing to do. Same thing when someone is walking on the shoulder.

When I'm riding my bike I notice a lot of people won't do that. They hug the white line as if to say "that's my territory and I'm not giving an inch." Like the biker threatens their sovereignty of the road or some such.

Paul is mean.

So you're saying a kid on a bike or a older person on a bike or a impaired person on a bike that can't maintain consistent lane position or direction of travel looks completely different than Paul on a bike.

I sure would hope so.

I do too. I think I could tell the difference pretty quick. Just like I can tell that 95% of the riders around here don’t have the courtesy or shared space mentality that Paul seems to project.