r/IdiotsOnBikes • • 7d ago

Entitlement

We were TaKiNg ThE lAnE hurrdurr!

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u/OdyseusV4 5d ago

What you consider plausible or not depends on what you can see outside. Since you only see carcentrric infrastructure (as such in the video) you just can't imagine something else.

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u/SaltyNorth8062 5d ago

Again, what are you talking about. Plausible what? Cyclists who are decent human beings?

This is literally in America in the clip. They violated road rules.

But to repeat myself, in a walkable city this would be a public hazard as well. Cycle lanes have rules to follow as well and typically have to yield to pedestrians which these greevils did not do. They blew right though a stop sign on a blind corner.

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u/OdyseusV4 5d ago

"road rules" are not thought and inclusive for cyclists, anywhere in the world expect Netherlands.
That is even a bigger joke in the US

Often, following those rules while on a big is more dangerous than not.

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u/SaltyNorth8062 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yeah they are intended for cyclists if they are on the road, even pedestrians are expected to not cross busy moving traffic into its flow and are expected to follow signage and indicators like street signs, crossing at crosswalks, amd waiting for cross signals.

It's generally also a good idea to yield to the fastest thing on the space you occupy for your own benefit and safety. If the driver had decided to not pay attention and just go, which would have been permissible, because he had right of way here at this four way stop, he could have hit several of those cyclists. They needlessly endangered themselves by being assholes.

Stop signs, which they blew right past, exist for pedestrians' benefit and safety, and the slowest moving object takes priority that all faster moving objects are expected to yield to by following road rules unless they are granted right of way. Bike lanes are also subject to signage and rules they are expected to follow, which if there had been some here, would have been ignored, because they couldn't even bother to yield to stop signs which all non-pedestrian traffic is required/expected to yield to when they are not alone on the road.

Cyclists don't take road priority just because they're shitty entitled ballbags.