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Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-11 00:59|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Bicycle riders are a nuisance in Tel Aviv.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-11 02:46|| 2024-10-11 02:46|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Some of them are nuisance here, too.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-10-11 09:48|| 2024-10-11 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 On top of everything, according to the Daily Mail, the bicyclist is a multimillionaire, and the nice kid was headed to have fun at the skate park.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-11 11:29|| 2024-10-11 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 There's always enough room for both a bike and a car in almost any given lane.

Posted by mossomo 2024-10-11 12:39|| 2024-10-11 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Given both are competent and cooperative.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-11 13:11|| 2024-10-11 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Bicycle riders are a nuisance everywhere. It's one thing to get in my way when I'm driving my car. It's even worse when they do it with that smug, self-righteous attitude. They think they're saving the planet by riding a bicycle and since they're so important, you better let them have the road. Well, I don't want them under my tires so I usually let them have it. Sometimes I honk though.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-10-11 14:18|| 2024-10-11 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 I try not to flip the bird at people on the road because you never know when one of them might have a gun and be inclined to use it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-10-11 14:25|| 2024-10-11 14:25|| Front Page Top

#8 There is an event called Bike Across Kansas. Starts west, goes east. During harvest. On two lane shoulderless roads. And the worst, the official line is "Hey you dirt rubes, watch out for us!" Or on a mountain road and some Sven wannabe wants to prove he is more than his Subaru. Or when some city welp comes to town to cosplay small town life and blows through the stop signs which are there because hauling hay bales route whose vehicles don't stop on a dime, they stop on $3.48 cents worth of pennies and some of the change is foreign coins you have to sort out.

I'm not saying don't go biking and get exercise, I'm saying it can be done without being a soy-puft marshmallow them.

And if still haughty because unsure where a bicycle rates on the Physics Wins! chart, the first winner of the Tour de France was XIX Panzer Corp.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-11 14:39|| 2024-10-11 14:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, in Tel Aviv they took a part of a sidewalks for bicycle paths. You can't f*cking cross from sidewalk to a bus stop without some moron trying to run you over.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-11 14:48|| 2024-10-11 14:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Where I am it's been it's law you have to give cyclists 3 feet clearance. Try that when they're riding side by side past the signs the read "Share the road!".

Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-10-11 19:56|| 2024-10-11 19:56|| Front Page Top

#11 The side-by-side bullshit is what pisses me off. We don't share car lanes with other cars until 1AM

Posted by Frank G 2024-10-11 20:06|| 2024-10-11 20:06|| Front Page Top

#12

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-10-11 20:10|| 2024-10-11 20:10|| Front Page Top

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