OK dammit
I’m sure this is gonna piss a lot of people of, but fuckit.
get the bikes off the fucking road, people. No, really. if you are determined to ride a damned bike, ride it on one of the many damned trails there are for that purpose; otherwise, get it off the fucking road.
First of all, bikers are almost to a man/woman rude, obnoxious, don’t follow the rules of the road, and if you should hit one or they hit you, you’re some kind of a goddamned criminal.
Second, while every car that goes on the road is forced to submit to an ever growing and ever more ridiculous list of safety standards, NONE of those standards apply to bicycles. Some places force you to wear a halmet. Big deal. You should have to meet the same safety standards as the things you share the road with.
Third, the bikes don’t pay for the roads. The cars do. The excise tax, and the fuel taxes paid on the car are what provide the roads.
Roads- modern ones, in the US, are made for cars. Making cars share the space with bikes is stupid, causes congestion and trouble, is dangerous to the biker, and never ends well in a collision. When bikes are forced to comply to the same standards as automobiles, and when they are taxed like automobiles and their fuel, they can use that money to make special bike lanes or areas, but in the meantime the ‘Bike lane” is an envirowhacko wetdream that at it’s core is trouble and stupid, and bedienungsfehler. Stop it.
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Rebba!
Wow. Something got up your drawers?
I’ve ridden probably 10k on the roads on a pedal power and I quit due to drivers that tried to run be down. I once had a motor home pass me on the left close enough I felt the hairs on my arm move.
I don’t like the paths as there are tourists there and if you have ever driven the rockies you know what I mean.
I can’t wait till we run out of oil and we all have to ride bikes. Until then I will stay in a car.
Good thing too because I will mow your ass down. the road is for cars, dammit.
That’s because no bicyclist follows the “Bedienungsanleitung” before they sally forth.
I agree. Bikes being wheeled vehicles ought to follow the rules of the road and not behave as teleological chaos agents.
Paul B: You’d better pray we never run out of hydrocarbons, because that is the only fuel source we have or ever will have. When those run out, humanity begins a slow die-off. If you’d paid attention in high school chemistry, you’d know that. May not come from oil, but they will always be hydrocarbons, and if they don’t COME in liquid form, they’ll have to be liquified because… Have you ever tried to stuff coal in a pipeline?
But I think your problem is deeper than that. You just hate humanity and all its works. That being the case, why don’t you do the honorable thing and eat a bullet?
M
Mark: Paul is one of us, he’s just yanking our chain. So I yank right back.
Agree.
And while we are at it, get those stupid Amish people off the road or fence off the areas where they live and charge admission. They should have their own roads, dirt ones, built and paid for by them. I’m tired of reading about some stupid buggy getting creamed by a car that was driving too fast (but perfectly reasonable anywhere else). And it really annoys me that the horse usually dies too. I expect the horse to be stupid. That’s why they have fences.
THIS.
ESPECIALLY when there is a BIKE PATH not twenty feet from the road. What the FUCK.
I’ve never had an Amish cart take up an entire lane of traffic, and then give me a dirty look when I pass them. And the Amish generally travel faster than the bikes do. Especially up-hill.
The bikes here in LA act as if they own the road and don’t have to obey any of the various laws that govern everyone on four wheels. Nothing says “ASSHOLE” like a traffic jam in rush hour caused by cars trying to get around the one bicycle taking up an entire lane.
Could not agree more.
We have this same bullcrang here in Australia too.
Our cops keep telling us we need to learn to share with the cyclists.
Bullshit. I’ve never seen a cyclist yet who obeyed the law of the roads. Almost to a man (or woman) they’re arrogant dickheads who love to cause traffic holdups – three abreast in a busy road lane anyone?
Well, I apologize to you, Og. But it gets like the Che tee-shirts. Watermelons ain’t cool. Damned malthusians skunk my beer.
M
Back in the sixties I rode a bike as my only personal transportation. I was going to Boatbuilding School at the time and my route was on side streets until I got to 35th ave NE in the Fremont District of Seattle. A woman who worked in the Twinkie plant used to wait for me then open her car door in an attempt to hit me. My insane uncle was a SPD dispatcher so he had an unmarked patrol car sit across the street from the bakery and watch one morning. I came down the street, very light traffic, keeping as far to the right as practicable and the b*tch shoved the door open on me again. The cop came across the street, arrested and cuffed her and had her car towed. I was subpoenad by her shyster and testified. The judge, she had waived a jury trial, found her guilty of attempted first degree mayhem, sentenced her to a year and a day in the King Co. Jail and fined her $50K.
About six months later some dusky hued choir boy stole my bike. I always hoped he and the b*tch would get together at about 40 mph one day.
Slow down Og, slow down… and then, turn your windshield washers on as you sloooowly go by the offending biker.
I always have good results getting cyclists to move over and share the roadway, but YMMV ;)
“Good thing too because I will mow your ass down.”
Better hit me good the first time, ’cause I know there ain’t no kevlar in that Exploder. :p
What now, bitches? :D
Exploder v8 vs 1 humanpower 23 lb bike = explorer ftw.
I am one of the very few people i know who stocks equipment that will shoot through an engine block.
There is some kevlar in this explorer, unsurprisingly. People dont always actually know what they think they know.
I been shot before. It aint no thing. ;D
I’ve been shot at before, but that was only me. And now that I know whose side I’m on, I’m not such a threat to myself.
Motorists are taxed six ways to Hell as we drive cars. Ehy aren’t bikes even registered and required to display a plate number? In PeeDeeEx, a former Mayor diverted a water ratepayer rebate of 22 million bux to building bike paths, but everytime a law is proposed to force silly wheelers to USE the paths, the law is defeated.
BTW, the boat paddling people are taking over navigable waterways, improvements to which are paid for by motor boaters’ taxes.
“If it’s human-powered, it must be FREEE” is their forever cry. Pontius Pilate knew how to deal with tax resisters….
“I pay for these roads with my taxes. I can do whatever i want with them”.
Cool. Then you’ll be okay with it when i occlude your driveway with my 1.4 mph forklift. Or do 12 mph on the freeway with a combine.
Hale: farmers do tend to think they have a right to that produce they grow. And i have had some really irate customers.
I have not yet had the experience of a self inflicted nd. I will keep being vigilant against that. Otherwise being shot is binary; you die and youre out of the equation, or you live.
“First of all, bikers are almost to a man/woman rude, obnoxious, don’t follow the rules of the road”
Kettle, a Mr. Pot is texting you on line one. :D
“I am one of the very few people i know who stocks equipment that will shoot through an engine block.”
Seriously, Og, M2 AP ball is not that uncommon. If it’ll shoot through a Hanomag at close range, I’m sure it will handle Canadian pot metal.
“There is some kevlar in this explorer, unsurprisingly.”
Not where I’d be aiming.
Hey, there’s a fun show this weekend, and I’ll be pedaling my filthy hippie ass to the brewpub on Sunday at 3:00. Why don’t you come on down and try and run me over?
(Should motorcycles have to meet the same safety standards as automobiles?)
Very recently, i put a 570 grain solid brass projectile through a cast iron engine block. Not much else will go through- and let me make this clear- a cast iron engine block.
People who have hinted at shooting me never have.
I never ran over anything that survived it, not even accidentally.
You know theres no kevlar and you also know where it is?
I have earned the right to be ill tempered and rude to those who behave boorishly. Road bikers, at least those i have encountered, are boorish before i arrive.
Automobiles should be held to no safety standards that are not voluntary. Did you leave your wookie suit at the cleaners?
Does that clear things up? :)
(Should motorcycles have to meet the same safety standards as automobiles?)
No. Automobiles should have to meet the same safety standards as motorcycles. Everything else should be optional equipment.
Wow, Hale, i didnt even know you had a wookie suit!
I’m not getting the reference.
http://maypeacebewithyou.blogspot.com/2009/10/wookiee-suiter.html?m=1
Well, if you’re not going to come down and run me over, will you at least come down for a gun show and a beer?
Just don’t try and run me over, ’cause I swear I won’t be amused. :\
lol. I really would love to come. I don’t know if I will be able to but I promise to try.
I have never run a biped over accidentally.
If I’m late I hope your filthy hippie ass can keep you company until I arrive. What’s his name?
They’ve started putting signs on some streets here in OKC saying “Bicycles may use entire lane”; all on two-lane streets.
I have to say that most people on bicycles here tend to stay as far to the right as they can, whether out of public spirit or fear I cannot say. But we do have some of the jerks as well.