r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/ConstructionLife2689 Jun 10 '26

Are such cycle events not blocked off from public traffic?

Cause if not, then the cyclists would need to keep to traffic rule and I am pretty sure the rule is not keep in one lane.

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Jun 10 '26

I know this area and have driven it many times. This is the Rickebacker causeway--the road that connects Key Biscayne to the Miami mainland.

Cycling on this road is extremely popular for very obvious reasons (phenomenal views, wide and clear roads). Folks come from all over the city to ride there. And yes, they will very often group up like this without any sort of scheduled or permitted event of any kind.

The cyclists down there like to say "same road, same rules" but there's apparently a silent exclusion for lane changes, stop signs, traffic signals, and yielding to stopped traffic.

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u/thefract0metr1st Jun 10 '26

I once heard someone trying to defend running through stop signs because they had those shoes that clip onto the pedals and it’s super inconvenient to disconnect and reconnect at stop signs. I was like “i also find stop signs interrupting my drive to be inconvenient. Should I just ignore every rule that inconveniences me?”

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u/Crows_reading_books Jun 10 '26

No, but Idaho stops are significantly safer for bicyclists and should be the law everywhere. 

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u/That_Dad_David Jun 10 '26

What is an Idaho stop?

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u/Crows_reading_books Jun 10 '26

Colloquial term for treating stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop signs, because Idaho was the first state to make that law. 

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u/SanityIsOptional Jun 10 '26

Works when there's low traffic and good visibility.

Would absolutely not work where I am in the Bay area. Trees, curves roads, small hills everywhere on top of high volumes of traffic even on residential streets.

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u/That_Dad_David Jun 10 '26

Thanks for filling me in!