There's this super wide residential half-mile flat road on my daily route that is blocked off by the wind. I'll be quite proud the day I get a ticket for speeding through there. So many drivers have gotten tickets down it. Speed limit is 25. I've reached 38 down it and cars still zoomed ahead of me.

You sir, are a badass

You can take your bike and shove it up your ass!

FUCK I hate bikers! GET THE FUCK OFF THE ROAD YOU MAKE ME SO NERVOUS AT LEAST RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK WITH THE OTHER PEDESTRIANS

And yes, I know you have wheels, but that doesn't mean you can ride in the street with the big boy vehicles, okay little baby?

Now go back to your little baby sidewalk with your little baby friends and keep riding your 19th century baby contraption to work everyday you poor piece of shit.

>>218036
>make me so nervous
Learn how to drive then.

>>218038
I'm a damn good driver. Maybe if I didn't have you assholes always creeping closer and closer to the side of my 2-ton vehicle with your little baby tin-foil training wheels, I wouldn't feel so nervous.

I mean what if you fell off?

INSTANT DEATH ASSHOLE. AND THEN YOUR FAMILY SUES ME FOREVER.

FUCK YOU.

>>218024
It might be the Radar or Laser equipment is not certified for bicycles. You should review this, because if you go to court and you are wrong, it is usually pretty expensive, especially if they call in technical experts

>>218040
Maybe bicycles should stay off the road then, don't you think?

inb4 "no"

>>218036
oh look it's THIS troll

>>218042
oh look it's THIS poor piece of shit

>>218045

Ok, let's get this straight. I'm a roadie. I've been passed by trucks tons of times so I feel VERY comfortable. If you see those guys with tights, don't worry about them. I just ask you to give us some space. We've probably have seen you half a mile away, so we're ready.
But if you see people in casual clothes, no helmets, and w/e be scared of them. You can usually tell the difference between an experienced rider and a casual rider.

>>218046
>Thinks that riding a bicycle is a difficult task that takes experience.

>>218048
Ever done a road race?

>>218050

ever smelt a troll?

>>218048
>thinks that driving cars requires no experience to be a good driver

Actually, as a casual biker (I commute to school on a single speed roadbike) I get nervous when riding in the street. I ride down a one way 3 lane strip and stay as far over as I can but I'm always worried some jackass not paying attention will clip me and that'll be the end. I'd ride the sidewalk but they're pretty shitty in my area (lots of gaping cracks, uneven, huge dips at intersections, etc.) and it would slow me down tremendously. I guess I should get a helmet........but that's so.......uncool right?

>>218039
protip: if a single bikes makes you nervous, you are not a good driver. troll much?

This is why I love Quebec, the cops don't enforce anything around here. I've been pulled over twice drunk on my bike and once for going too fast. Never got tickets for the incidents.

>feelsgoodman.jpg

>>218039

>I mean what if you fell off?

Unless we get sideswiped by bigfoot at light speed we are not going to fall off. Read up on how you stay upright on a bike.

inb4 hitting something on the road. Any half decent cyclist knows to look ahead 50-75 feet for potholes and other obstacles.

If you can keep a speed of 8-10 mph then you need to be on the road riding with traffic. Never ride facing traffic. I almost splattered some porch monkey last weekend because he was riding facing traffic around a blind corner.

>>218039
As a motorist, you're way likelier to kill another motorist than you are a cyclist.

>>218036
oh hay its babbys first troll.

but I will bite a little.

A lycra clad cyclist shouldn't be too high on the list of things that make you nervous.
Certainly no where near as high as other cars, and drivers.

What should make you nervous is other drivers.

Pic related, it is what you can and should be nervous about.

>>218036
yawn. you can take your car and spend thousands of dollars fueling and repairing it all the time. on the bright side after 20 years of sitting around in the drivers seat all the time you can file for disability

captcha: to eatended

>>218036

Dear OP,

Throw away your license and sell your car. Women should not be driving.

>>218036
????

>>218036
u mad cuz my bike cost more than your car

>>218036

>>218059
drivers actually drive closer to cyclists with full gear, they think you have more experience and leave you less space when passing.

>>218122

While this has been tested to be true, the results still show that wearing a helmet is a good idea.

Derp.

>>218036

Bhahaha I bet you're just a gem in traffic. How's that blood pressure?

>>218120

>>218127
didn't say it wasn't. just saying it's not an entirely positive thing to do, wearing a helmet.

>>218035
>32 mph
>badass

this is what /n/ actually believes

>>218036
I don't entirely disagree with this guy, because there are some retarded bicyclists out there.

You know how in high school, the black kids walked through the hallways really slowly and in lines? I've met packs of bicyclists like that — just like the black kids — road in packs, blocking traffic for the cars behind them and refusing to move out of the way. What would have been a 10 minute drive for me if they had had the brains to know when to follow and when to break protocol and face the (nonexistent) oncoming traffic turned into a 30 minute ordeal. Fuck you assholes, you could have at least pulled over for a moment or something.

>>218036
>AT LEAST RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK WITH THE OTHER PEDESTRIANS

I'd love to. How about you go and make that legal, then?

itt faggot motorists cry about cyclists

fuck off. oh, better yet

deal with it

*dons shades, dipleans out*

>>218176

I don't know exactly how they were riding since I can't exactly decypher your description but I can tell you this:

When cyclists ride in packs usually mean they are many and instead of riding single file taking up more road space and being vulnerable to cars that overtake too close for comfort they bunch up and become more visible to drivers, pass through intersections faster and are easier/safer to overtake.

Also, there are some cyclists that train for races so they won't stop just to let you pass, they have a specific training to do and they'l do it.

It reminded me earlier today when I was told (screamed at) to get on the bicycle lane. Problem is I was training at the specific pace of 25mph and the bicycle lane is for pedestrians too. You can imagine me hitting a pedestrian or a slower cyclist at those kinds of speeds. I understand I legaly belong in the bicycle lane but sometimes you just have to use common sense.

>>218180

Allow me to be a bit clearer.

We're riding on a long, semi-rural road. Standard two lane, pass friendly fare. Very few vehicles going in either direction.
In front of me is a pack of bicyclists, driving significantly (obviously) under the speed limit.
These guys can see that see for a very long distance — long enough to see that there are no cars coming any time soon. Yet, they refuse to move out of the way for the truck that is stuck on their ass.
To make matters worse, they're taking up part of the left lane, so I can't pass either.

I like bikes, I'm cool with bicycling, and even this whole "traveling in packs" thing is acceptable. If bikes + public transportation were the norm where I lived, I think that would be pretty swell. It's not the norm, however, and so I get a little pissed when bicyclists forget to take the people driving around in giant cruising hunks of steel into consideration.

>>218189

I see now. Normaly when I think riding in packs I think in pairs and it takes up about 2/3 of the lane. If those guys managed to take the left lane too that is pretty annoying.

>>218036
Its illegal for bikes to be ridden on the sidewalk.