As I have gotten older, I thought I had become more patient. It is getting more difficult everyday.

The town that I live in has spent tons of money on new bike lanes and is actually one of the "Best Small Cities for Cycling". A former team mate of Lance Armstrong lives here and owns a bicycle sportswear store and a luxury hotel that caters to the well heeled bicyclist. These are some of the reasons that bike riders seem to flock here.

I find it funny that most of the places where the bike lanes were built don't ever have bike riders on them! I live at the base of a mountain that attracts bike riders. Of course, it has no bike lanes. It is a hilly, curvy, two lane road. The cyclist, in their skin tight multicolored outfits, with advertising all over them, are taking over. Yesterday afternoon there were 3 guys riding together. By together, I mean side by side by side taking up the entire lane. To me, this may be fine on a straight multilane road, but not this road! As I approached the riders, there was an older lady driving a minivan with children inside it, between me and them. The speed limit on the road is 30 mph. The cyclist never formed a single file. They would go about 10 mph up the hills and close to the speed limit down them. The minivan driver stayed back from them about 20 yards, never attempting to pass them (even though she had a few easy chances), because of oncoming traffic or ????. I could have passed all of them (cyclists and minivan driver) but did not want to seem like a maniac. There were 8 cars lined up behind them.

We followed them for about 2 miles. At the bottom of the mountain, there is a traffic light. The van and I were turning left and the cyclist were behind another car turning right. This had me lined up beside them. I rolled my window down and yelled over to them "You need to pull over when cars line up behind you!!". One of them said "sorry", another paid me no attention, and the third one flipped me off!

Did I do wrong? And, I would love to hear from the forum bike riders.

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Miss My Buddy crsides!!

By the day, wait by the second were losing more and more respect for one another. It's a sad thing that our country is going through.
We are acting like a bunch of animals and only one piece of meat snapping at each other.

They've started promoting bike events here also. Most of the time, no problems, unless a big event is coming up.
Then the roads get crowded and a lot of these roads are simply not safe for bikes and cars. No medians or clear side space with steep drop offs into the woods. Very few, if any guard rails either.
For the most part they are observant and try to get out of the way but I believe it's just a matter of time before someone is hit.
There's also a good deal of logging trucks on the same roads.
I'll bet that if and when that happens, the answer will be to lower speed limits and raise taxes to widen the roads.
That would be easier to swallow if they paid their share to use the roads.
Call me grumpy.

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“Look life in its iron face”

Roadies...
That's one of the reasons I'm glad that the local touristy trail's an unpaved, dirt and gravel canal towpath.
No roadies and their elitist attitudes.

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Keep on Chooglin'

Thats something Ive been dealing with for 35 years.(I lived in Boulder).The guys riding abreast and blocking the road are breaking the law in most places.Most riders ( I used to be one) are pretty good and have common sense,but there are a few living a Tour de France fantasy lol.One thing Ive noticed is that the really obnoxious riders also tend to be really obnoxious drivers too

I have found it you get the tires howling through a turn and hold the horn on they tend to scatter.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's bikers that think they own the road. It's plain obnoxious and idiotic when they refuse to form up in single file, rather than take up a whole lane. Take your tight jumpsuits and skinny tires to the side of the road!

This is why I ride a mountain bike in the woods. I can wear normal clothes, and not worry about traffic. But if for some reason I needed to ride on the road, I would obey the rules set in place, and yield to vehicles when possible.

Common sense is far from common these days.

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ChanceFavorsThe
Prepared Mind

It may be getting worse, but it has a long way to go before the bicyclists can even approach the slowness and discourtesy of many Harley riders. Their rolling road blocks have held me up for any more miles and any more hours than the bicyclists.

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Not in jail.

We see that here all the time, bike clubs come down with trailer's full of bikes.

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Don

You can be right and wind up dead just the same, in fact that might have been on a Tombstone.

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LEX ET ORDO

A.They don't care
B.It's all about me
C.They don't care

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I'm just here for the guns.

I have a theory about patience, when we are born we are issued a invisible bottle of patience, every time we are patient a bit of it is removed from the bottle. By the time we are old that bottle is darn near empty! I am a long time motorcycle rider who has a acute knowledge that my motorcycle is much smaller than most all other road traffic and will not win a physics contest. Why bicyclists cannot figure this one out is beyond me.

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Stay safe people!

It's like that here but there are no bicycle lanes. I don't mind them and genrally just go around but sometimes they are all over the road and don't get out of the way.

You've never seen bicycles until you've been to the Netherlands! OMG!!! It's a form of transportation just like cars, and they are everywhere! And there are traffic laws pertaining to them and vehicles. They have whole parking garages dedicated to bicycles! I have this photo I took where this one woman was holding her head with her hands. She was trying to figure out how to get to her bike in front of a building. Her bike was by the wall and there was at least a thousand other bikes between her and the wall, all intermingled!

I liked seeing the bromfietsen (mopeds) sharing the fietspad (bicycle path) with the pedal bikes. The really cool guys, like the Blues Boys of Deventer, would deck out their mopeds with apehangers and flames.

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Not in jail.

Video them on your phone. Specify where and when the bicyclist failed to obey the law. Call the police and report them. This is especially worthwhile if this is a recurrent problem on a particular road/street. It is no different than the driver of a car/truck who fails to follow the law and endangers pedestrians, bicyclists, etc. JMHO. Sincerely. brucev.

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