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Im a cyclist. I know this bugs people.
The thing is the only explanation is envy?
Like if im on the road and then on a path and then back on the road... who cares?
Obviously you need to be sharing the road or the path with other users and not cutting infront of people, obeying laws, being courteous and predictable et cetera.
But what really is so offensive about being a more versatile vehicle?
Bikes need to stop for red lights and stop signs. It's not envy... I've seen cars get T-boned after running a red light, you will not survive that on a bike.
I don't care if you share the road, as long as you follow the rules. If you switch to a path , be aware of pedestrians just like cars have to be aware of bikes. Safety first.
Ok, let them earn their Darwin award, that's their decision to make. Same with riding without a helmet, I don't really care if someone else has a death wish.
It becomes a problem when they're endangering other people, that's why cars running red lights is wrong. A car running a red light is orders of magnitude more dangerous to everyone around it than a bicycle.
In a lot of places bikes can go through red lights if it's clear because it's safer to allow them to get a headstart on the cars and get in front of them where they can see them, instead of waiting for someone to turn right into you once the light turns green because you're in a cars blindspot.
How is this relevant to bikes behaving as both cars and pedestrians ?
I said bikes need to obey laws.
Why does it bother you so much that cyclists behave both as cars and as pedestrians?
Perhaps you can run over pedestrians if you do so? FFS, just stop making the ashole moves you accuse car drivers of, if you want to be taken seriously! Never went to ER with a kid almost by killed by a 100kg male with a racing bicycle, didn't you?
Look im sorry you had that experience, but im not really sure how its relevant here?
Was that guy avoiding an intersection by riding on the foot path? Seems unlikely for a racing bike.
Plenty of people screaming around on bikes unsafely - no doubt about that.
Yes he was doing just that. Switching paths to avoid a red light.
I pretty much just don't believe you.
Even if this is true, and a big heavy guy on a racing bike was riding on the side walk and collided with your child, that sounds like an awful and dangerous situation but it doesn't really change things?
Cars have accidents all the time, bikes have accidents too, sometimes bikes and cars have accidents, some times cars and people have accidents, and sometimes bikes and people have accidents.
In a given incident one or more participants may have been reckless or acted unlawfully, but that doesn't mean that their mode of transport is inherently dangerous.
I never said riding bicycles is inherently dangerous to pedestrians. I just say they are, if they switch to the pavement in full speed.
I think you are unnecessarily offensive and I really dont get, why I have to defend common sense by stating that I am not fine with people taking traffic rules into theyre own hands and endangering others.
Guess i missed the part stating that this comment section is reckless drivers circle jerk...
*dropsout
It literally is just crab bucket "If I have to be stuck in traffic, so should you, its unfair." Especially in America, its not uncommon for drivers to block motorcycles from filtering at a red light.
I do not care if you want to ride around at 5mph but if you're at a stop light, do not hop up the sidewalk just to claim pedestrian privileges by running through the intersection because when I hit you and kill you it'll raise my insurance rates (because you also don't have insurance). If you want to act like a car, take on the obligations of being one, otherwise stay off the roads.
Why though? There's no law against it anywhere I've ever ridden, and so long as I do so safely and predictably, it's not your problem.
Broβs out here just doubling down on the envy lol.
Actually here the bike lanes sweep up onto a separate path at roundabouts, then back into a bike lane after the roundabout.
Its designed this way because being a cyclist on a roundabout is obscenely dangerous.
In this particular case youre not really stealing pedestrian privileges, the bike lane is designed that way.
In other cases, I just cant imagine someone hopping up onto the foot path just to skip a stop sign. It sounds absurd honestly.