Multi-lane road, couldn't the cyclists use one lane and let the cars pass? Yeah the driver shouldn't be doing that but at the same time, taking up the whole road seems pretty entitled on the cyclists part. If the road was closed for an event, that would be different....
and if you actually use your eyes, you'll notice those cars have flashing lights and other such things other than the dipshit mini- they're support vehicles for the race as well as police.
Which ones have flashing lights? All of them have headlights on including the mini idiot. I don't see any additional lights on any of the vehicles even when I zoom in as far as my phone will allow. I'm not using this as an excuse, just saying that it doesn't appear that there was an adequate job of closing the road.
I was still leaving an opening. I was recently on a road trip in my van which has a camera for the rear view mirror (Wolfbox).
I was going over the speed limit and a cop did what cops do. Its cop lights were inside the car and it was unmarked. In my rear view camera mirror it looked just like a regular old crossover and I could not see any flashing lights. Eventually he pulled out and I could see him in my side mirror.
Fortunately, Kansas lets you pay $150 on top of all the fines and fees to dismiss the ticket.
While true, it's discourteous to use up all lanes when no one is even overtaking anyone else.
Like imagine if a bunch of cyclists came across a mob of pedestrians fully taking up the road going like 2 miles an hour. They would similarly be understandably peeved to have no road available to go at a sane pace for their bikes.
...like a march/demonstration/protest/event? Of course a handful of cyclists wouldn't be able to pass a crowd, and they would not have an expectation to do so.
And not because the crowd is "being entitled". Because the road is in use by the crowd.
Frankly the walking scenario is largely hypothetical.
Around here large cycling groups tend to just gather near some nice foresty areas or a big lake and just have a nice drive.
So cars get randomly slowed to 10 miles and hour or so on nice days on the small parts of roads but people understand, and just deal until the next opportunity. If the bikes took up an available passing lane in such an ad hoc gathering though, I think then the cars would be less understanding.
Wow, a thick one. Okay, let me really break it down for you.
The answer is that you don't matter, and sitting in a car does not make you more important that a person sitting on a bike or a person sitting in another car. They do not need or have to "get out of your way".
I'm all for building out infrastructure for bikes and teaching car brains to share the road, but this isn't sharing. It's a slow moving vehicle monopolizing the road rather than sharing it.
It's no different than pedestrians on the sidewalk making room for faster walkers to go by. It costs you nothing to be more accommodating to other people's needs. There should be at least one bypass lane when there are this many lanes.
It just makes sense for efficiency since the faster moving vehicles will clear the road more quickly when infrastructure is available for their use.
It actually makes a great case for having bike lanes as this would reserve infrastructure for the separate uses without making a value judgment about who's more important or whatever the fuck you're on about.
If it was a single-file road, and there was a bus carrying all those cyclists ("slow, monopolizing vehicle"), would you expect it to stop on the sideroad and let the traffic pass, whenever a car approaches from behind?
The comment I'm replying to, called the large group of people using the road "entitled" for not letting cars pass for "efficiency".
I never once said they needed to or had to move out of the way. That’s something you invented.
Sharing the road goes both ways. In this video, where exactly is that happening? The bikes are taking up two lanes. The cars are in one, other than the douche nozzle.
No one is claiming entitlement or right of way, just pointing out that common courtesy seems to be a one-way expectation here.
If “sharing” only ever means cars yield, cyclists don’t, that’s not sharing, it’s just selective outrage.
"Sharing" would mean each cyclist can take up as much space as one car.
Your shitcan that you usually drive alone takes up as much space as 6 cyclists.
Why do the 6 cyclists have to yeld so you can get past? If you look at the video, they're so tightly packed that there isn't even anywhere to yield. They would literally have to slow down just so you can pass in your tin can.
"Common courtesy" for you is slow down, move over so I can pass? Lmao
Jesus fucking christ carbrains are brain-rotten to shit.
If “sharing” only ever means cars yield, cyclists don’t, that’s not sharing, it’s just selective outrage.
You can't even differentiate between "yielding" and "being in traffic"!
I don't think it's a competitive race. The cars don't have spare bikes, the cyclists don't have bib numbers, there don't appear to be teams, some cyclists seem to have an imperfect setup and mixed sex races are uncommon. I also don't see cars ahead of the peloton. I think it might be more of an organised leisure trip, which would explain why the road wasn't closed.
I’m honestly surprised it worked out for them. Sort of. They’ll get to their destination 30 seconds sooner than if they just had patience. But they didn’t total their vehicle. So that’s a win.
Imagine what comes be done in that 30 sec. He could post a hateful comment on Facebook. It's just rude to rob him of that productivity so they can what? Ride a bike?
Some times 30 seconds can be the difrence between getting a job proposal in on time for a big contract. Or a pair of pants that are going straight to the trash because you missed the porcelain bus by that much.
When I see things like this I used to assume the worst. Now for the sake of self sanity I began giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Kid is in hospital/serious medical emergency/ epipen organ transplant match what ever
Literally are shitting their pants.
Kid has been screaming nonstop for two 2hrs straight.
Last chance to say goodbye to a loved one
Her Water broke you are driving her to the hospital. All of a sudden there's blood and she is going white as a ghost. The hospital is 2 min down the road.
Minis like Clubman are pretty big and are classified as crossovers. They just look small in photos because of traits like the large headlights and wheel arches.
However, this one indeed seems small compared to the cyclists.
You know damn well this idiot flies an American flag, and talks about how much they love The US of A, and drive a fucking car with the British flag on it.
Fuck the driver, but as a commuting cyclist/walker/public transport taker, Ive also been kind of annoyed by folks who think their training takes precedence over others' commute, particularly on designated bicycle 'roads'.
In his defense, cyclists is florida are generally stupid and assume they own the road.
I was even once just cruising along a 4 lane road doing the speed limit. From a side street that had a stop sign, by the way, came a mob of cyclists right in front of me without stopping. I almost hit the leaders and the.mob swarmed around me yelling and threatening me.
All i could think was they were lucky i didnt kill one of them for nit even stopping to check for oncoming traffic. Yet they were yelling at me like it was my fault.
Would love to hear this from their perspective. Several people reacting like this seems like maybe there were some warning signs that you should've seen? Maybe you missed that there was a race? What are we both missing here?
I have seen groups of cyclists about that big on a road without closing the road down formally. Frequently on smaller roads that won't have passing lanes, and even be double yellow. When caught behind them, I eagerly await the road widening and they pretty much always stick to the right lane and you can pass them at a courteus speed.
Not a race.... for fuks sake. Races with road closures have barricades and cops.
I know we all want to love bikes and hate cars. But bikes dont get do stupud shit on the road then blame cars when they realize they just did some stupid shit.
Huh, that went unexpectedly smooth. Still absurdly dangerous and stupid
Yeah I was expecting some kind of hero culvert or something.
I was at least expecting a kerb
Multi-lane road, couldn't the cyclists use one lane and let the cars pass? Yeah the driver shouldn't be doing that but at the same time, taking up the whole road seems pretty entitled on the cyclists part. If the road was closed for an event, that would be different....
Shhhh... You're being reasonable.
Sorry, my bad, I won't let it happen again.
Actually ignorant
How so?
It’s a closed course…
Nothing indicates that in the video.
Saying that makes you both look like idiots.
At the beginning of the video, there are a whole line of cars behind the bikes.
and if you actually use your eyes, you'll notice those cars have flashing lights and other such things other than the dipshit mini- they're support vehicles for the race as well as police.
Which ones have flashing lights? All of them have headlights on including the mini idiot. I don't see any additional lights on any of the vehicles even when I zoom in as far as my phone will allow. I'm not using this as an excuse, just saying that it doesn't appear that there was an adequate job of closing the road.
I don't see any flashing lights either, only lights flickering due to shutter speed.
I was still leaving an opening. I was recently on a road trip in my van which has a camera for the rear view mirror (Wolfbox).
I was going over the speed limit and a cop did what cops do. Its cop lights were inside the car and it was unmarked. In my rear view camera mirror it looked just like a regular old crossover and I could not see any flashing lights. Eventually he pulled out and I could see him in my side mirror.
Fortunately, Kansas lets you pay $150 on top of all the fines and fees to dismiss the ticket.
Fourth car, looks like it's got inside strobes.
It's not a race. No bibs. Mixed sex races are incredibly rare as well. The road is not closed.
This is cyclists doing a group ride and blocking the road.
It doesn't matter if it's a race or not. Cars do not automatically have the right of way.
While true, it's discourteous to use up all lanes when no one is even overtaking anyone else.
Like imagine if a bunch of cyclists came across a mob of pedestrians fully taking up the road going like 2 miles an hour. They would similarly be understandably peeved to have no road available to go at a sane pace for their bikes.
...like a march/demonstration/protest/event? Of course a handful of cyclists wouldn't be able to pass a crowd, and they would not have an expectation to do so.
And not because the crowd is "being entitled". Because the road is in use by the crowd.
Frankly the walking scenario is largely hypothetical.
Around here large cycling groups tend to just gather near some nice foresty areas or a big lake and just have a nice drive.
So cars get randomly slowed to 10 miles and hour or so on nice days on the small parts of roads but people understand, and just deal until the next opportunity. If the bikes took up an available passing lane in such an ad hoc gathering though, I think then the cars would be less understanding.
Left lane is for overtaking, and the cyclists can be seen doing just that.
Why don't other cars in a traffic jam get out of the way to let you pass?? Are they stupid????
I don't see cars creating a traffic jam, they are all in one lane, the push bike riders could do the same, no?
I'm talking about a typical traffic jam.
Answer me, why don't other cars get out of the way to let you pass. You're faster. They pass ambulances and police cars. Why won't they let you pass?
Lol. Are you okay?
We aren't talking about a typical traffic jam, only what's shown in the video.
Wow, a thick one. Okay, let me really break it down for you.
The answer is that you don't matter, and sitting in a car does not make you more important that a person sitting on a bike or a person sitting in another car. They do not need or have to "get out of your way".
I'm all for building out infrastructure for bikes and teaching car brains to share the road, but this isn't sharing. It's a slow moving vehicle monopolizing the road rather than sharing it.
It's no different than pedestrians on the sidewalk making room for faster walkers to go by. It costs you nothing to be more accommodating to other people's needs. There should be at least one bypass lane when there are this many lanes.
It just makes sense for efficiency since the faster moving vehicles will clear the road more quickly when infrastructure is available for their use.
It actually makes a great case for having bike lanes as this would reserve infrastructure for the separate uses without making a value judgment about who's more important or whatever the fuck you're on about.
This guy gets it.
If it was a single-file road, and there was a bus carrying all those cyclists ("slow, monopolizing vehicle"), would you expect it to stop on the sideroad and let the traffic pass, whenever a car approaches from behind?
The comment I'm replying to, called the large group of people using the road "entitled" for not letting cars pass for "efficiency".
It's like complaining about bus lanes.
Wow, a thick one.
I never once said they needed to or had to move out of the way. That’s something you invented.
Sharing the road goes both ways. In this video, where exactly is that happening? The bikes are taking up two lanes. The cars are in one, other than the douche nozzle.
No one is claiming entitlement or right of way, just pointing out that common courtesy seems to be a one-way expectation here.
If “sharing” only ever means cars yield, cyclists don’t, that’s not sharing, it’s just selective outrage.
"Sharing" would mean each cyclist can take up as much space as one car.
Your shitcan that you usually drive alone takes up as much space as 6 cyclists.
Why do the 6 cyclists have to yeld so you can get past? If you look at the video, they're so tightly packed that there isn't even anywhere to yield. They would literally have to slow down just so you can pass in your tin can.
"Common courtesy" for you is slow down, move over so I can pass? Lmao
Jesus fucking christ carbrains are brain-rotten to shit.
You can't even differentiate between "yielding" and "being in traffic"!
I don't think it's a competitive race. The cars don't have spare bikes, the cyclists don't have bib numbers, there don't appear to be teams, some cyclists seem to have an imperfect setup and mixed sex races are uncommon. I also don't see cars ahead of the peloton. I think it might be more of an organised leisure trip, which would explain why the road wasn't closed.
Do you have an article or a link? Because this video doesn't show any of that.
I’m honestly surprised it worked out for them. Sort of. They’ll get to their destination 30 seconds sooner than if they just had patience. But they didn’t total their vehicle. So that’s a win.
Imagine what comes be done in that 30 sec. He could post a hateful comment on Facebook. It's just rude to rob him of that productivity so they can what? Ride a bike?
He probably used that 30 seconds for an extended sex sesh. Foreplay and all.
Some times 30 seconds can be the difrence between getting a job proposal in on time for a big contract. Or a pair of pants that are going straight to the trash because you missed the porcelain bus by that much.
When I see things like this I used to assume the worst. Now for the sake of self sanity I began giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Kid is in hospital/serious medical emergency/ epipen organ transplant match what ever
Literally are shitting their pants.
Kid has been screaming nonstop for two 2hrs straight.
Last chance to say goodbye to a loved one
Her Water broke you are driving her to the hospital. All of a sudden there's blood and she is going white as a ghost. The hospital is 2 min down the road.
It helps with personal sanity. Try it.
Carbrain is a serious condition
Nah, pure simple old fashioned stupidity.
Wow, that's a lot of cyclists!
Also wtf, it's a Mini? If I had to say what the opposite of an off road vehicle was, I'd probably have said Mini or Fiat. Fucking yikes, lol
Both famous Rally car makers, ironically.
Minis like Clubman are pretty big and are classified as crossovers. They just look small in photos because of traits like the large headlights and wheel arches.
However, this one indeed seems small compared to the cyclists.
You know damn well this idiot flies an American flag, and talks about how much they love The US of A, and drive a fucking car with the British flag on it.
Whatever point they thought they were making is totally undermined by the sheer absurdity of the Mini Cooper.
Fuck the driver, but as a commuting cyclist/walker/public transport taker, Ive also been kind of annoyed by folks who think their training takes precedence over others' commute, particularly on designated bicycle 'roads'.
In his defense, cyclists is florida are generally stupid and assume they own the road.
I was even once just cruising along a 4 lane road doing the speed limit. From a side street that had a stop sign, by the way, came a mob of cyclists right in front of me without stopping. I almost hit the leaders and the.mob swarmed around me yelling and threatening me.
All i could think was they were lucky i didnt kill one of them for nit even stopping to check for oncoming traffic. Yet they were yelling at me like it was my fault.
Would love to hear this from their perspective. Several people reacting like this seems like maybe there were some warning signs that you should've seen? Maybe you missed that there was a race? What are we both missing here?
"Car go road! Bike no go road!"
I read this in a Jamaican patois voice and it was great 😁
No race, no signs, just a bike group thinking they can ignore stop signs.
How is this "clearly" a race? This video shows no road closures or signage or any kind of race officials.
Groups like that don't form randomly, unless it's an event.
There's also a person on a motorbike (an official, support, or a camera-man), usually seen in races.
I have seen groups of cyclists about that big on a road without closing the road down formally. Frequently on smaller roads that won't have passing lanes, and even be double yellow. When caught behind them, I eagerly await the road widening and they pretty much always stick to the right lane and you can pass them at a courteus speed.
Not a race.... for fuks sake. Races with road closures have barricades and cops.
I know we all want to love bikes and hate cars. But bikes dont get do stupud shit on the road then blame cars when they realize they just did some stupid shit.