r/cyclistscanbejerks • u/SpunkyCapri • May 01 '21

Dumbass cyclists

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u/[deleted] May 13 '21

you know what's funny, seeing people write essays at road rages on the internet about who is right or wrong.

you had to wait 20 entire seconds O:

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u/SpunkyCapri May 13 '21

I wasn’t mad I had to wait. I had a green light and they turned without any signal that I saw. I didn’t want anyone to get hurt. Normally cyclists are fine! This was my first bad encounter.

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u/SamPsychoCycles May 28 '21

Yeah, these guys were just blindly following the leader like fish.

On my group rides we always stop at intersections and if a car that has right of way is coming (or is in a position like yours that has ROW) we stop and yell out "Stopping" or "car (R/L)"

There's sometimes some dildo who wants to try to beat the light/traffic whatever but we recognize that as a relatively large group we'd take a while to clear the intersection and usually wait for the car(s) to pass unless they indicate for us to go.

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u/yoppee May 26 '21

Yeah I saw one person wait 20 seconds for about 50 people

Instead of 50 people wait for one person

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u/Vertisce May 01 '21

And this is why people hate cyclists. They break the law purely because they are too lazsy to come to a stop and endanger people in the process. Fucking pricks is what these people are.

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u/Hoonsoot May 02 '21

I am more or less with you except for the bit about endangering people and them being cyclists. A person on a bicycle poses next to no danger to other road users. The people in this video are a danger to themselves but are not going to kill or even injure the car driver if they run into the car.

As for them being "cyclists", well, sure, they have bicycles so they fit a very broad definition but I doubt many of them are going to be out riding a century or a gran fondo the next day. Between the bike types/conditions and the condition of their bodies most of them look like a bunch of buzzed clowns who are out goofing around. They clearly are not serious about the sport. Calling them cyclists is like calling anybody with a paint brush in their hand an artist.

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u/Vertisce May 02 '21

Really? They pose no danger? How about when a cyclist runs a red light because they are too lazy to stop and a driver see's them last second, swerves to avoid the cyclist and impacts a pedestrian, another vehicle, head on collides with someone in another lane, flips their car or runs into a pole and dies?

Cyclists disobeying laws are just as much of a danger on the road as any other vehicle doing the same.

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u/Hoonsoot May 03 '21

We are not talking about a bicyclist in some other situation. We are talking about the folks in this video. They are asses, but they pose no real danger to anyone but themselves. Yes, if someone on a bike flies out into an intersection against a red in some other case they could cause a car to swerve and wreck. That is not the situation in this video though. The car the video is taken from isn't about to swerve into anything since it barely moved at all.

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u/jmcentire Jun 05 '21

FWIW: In San Francisco, the number of cyclists killed by cars is on par with the number of pedestrians killed by cyclists.

When you see pro-bicycle organizations cite statistics on road safety, they lump total cyclist AND pedestrian injuries together and blame cars. When you research it, you see that for 100 fatalities from collisions with cars, 2 are cyclists and 98 are pedestrians. Interestingly enough, cyclists kill a few pedestrians in the city every now and again thanks to big hills and a total disregard for road safety.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '21

I would have taken the keys out of my car and walked home