Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

 

[ Track This Topic :: Email This Topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: Grownups who ride bicycles places< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
 Post Number: 1
GORDON Search for posts by this member.
90%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 36125
Joined: Jun. 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,09:54  Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Are bicyclists required to follow stoplight signals?  Drove through a town/suburb on the way to the city today and noticed a middle aged, dude cyclist on the lane they added to the road specifically for bicyclists (specifically, there was a go-straight lane, and a right-turn-only lane, and there was a 2-foot lane in between them for bicycles.  Painted blue.).  Was the first time I ever saw someone using the special lane, so I found it noteworthy.  He and I were going in the same direction.  I stopped for the red light, so did he.  Then he blew through it.

Just wondered if it was legal.  Legal or not I still imagined tapping him with my side mirror as I went by him.

I imagine bicycle laws are local, though, and you people wouldn't know.

--------------
I don't give a fuck!
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 2
Vince Search for posts by this member.
I make sweet, sweet love to my legally licenced copy of Microsoft Vista.
Avatar



Group: Privateers
Posts: 5016
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,09:58 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Everywhere I've taken the written driver's test, they were supposed to follow the road rules if they're riding on the road.

What you're describing has always been one of my pet peeves.  I don't mind sharing the road with the cyclists, but if you're in a city area with slow traffic lights you may end up passing the same cyclist 3 times because he doesn't think the laws apply to him.
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 3
Malcolm Search for posts by this member.
I disagree.
Avatar



Group: Privateers
Posts: 27168
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,11:03 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Bicyclists are supposed to treat their bikes as cars for purposes of traffic signals and signs.  The number of times I've seen/heard of a bicyclist getting ticketed for breaking those rules is an amount I can count on one hand.

QUOTE
I stopped for the red light, so did he.  Then he blew through it.

That's illegal in pretty much every major town or city in this country.  But there's no cop who'll take time out of his day to stop the dude ... unless he's a non-violent drug offender, I assume.

--------------
Diogenes of Sinope:

"It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."

"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."

Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC:

"Better dead than smeg."
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 4
Cakedaddy Search for posts by this member.





Group: "Members"
Posts: 6241
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,11:21 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Mad bros?  You want to HIT cyclists because they didn't wait for the light?!

"That cyclist is beating me because he's cheating.  I'm going to run him over.  That will teach him to play fair."
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 5
TheCatt Search for posts by this member.
Top 2%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 22951
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,11:22 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Bikes and cars are both vehicles, and should obey the same rules (pretty much).  You are right that these laws are state by state, so there may be some variability (Iowa, for example, has pretty progressive bike rules).

Generally, what he did is illegal.  

I run red lights from time to time on my bike, but only in situations where the light will only turn for a car, and not a bike.

While on my bike, I've seen a surprising # of cars breaking laws (speeding - pretty much all of them; Running red lights - 3 times the last week I rode alone; illegal u-turns; etc, etc).

I assume you feel like going vigilante on speeding cars and other law-breakers too?

Edited by TheCatt on Oct. 15 2014,11:23

--------------
It's not me, it's someone else.
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 6
Vince Search for posts by this member.
I make sweet, sweet love to my legally licenced copy of Microsoft Vista.
Avatar



Group: Privateers
Posts: 5016
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,11:30 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
I place them in the same category as I place interstate drivers that ride the emergency lane for two miles to get past a traffic back up and to an exit.  They're self centered pricks that think they're too special to wait like everyone else and their time is more precious than anyone else's and they're "special" and they need to get colon cancer.
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 7
GORDON Search for posts by this member.
90%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 36125
Joined: Jun. 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,11:54 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

(Cakedaddy @ Oct. 15 2014,14:21)
QUOTE
Mad bros?  You want to HIT cyclists because they didn't wait for the light?!

"That cyclist is beating me because he's cheating.  I'm going to run him over.  That will teach him to play fair."

I didn't say I wanted to give him a love tap because he ran a red light.

--------------
I don't give a fuck!
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 8
GORDON Search for posts by this member.
90%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 36125
Joined: Jun. 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,13:54 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

(GORDON @ Oct. 15 2014,14:54)
QUOTE

(Cakedaddy @ Oct. 15 2014,14:21)
QUOTE
Mad bros?  You want to HIT cyclists because they didn't wait for the light?!

"That cyclist is beating me because he's cheating.  I'm going to run him over.  That will teach him to play fair."

I didn't say I wanted to give him a love tap because he ran a red light.

No one is going to follow up?  You fucking fuckers.  I had something for this all day.

--------------
I don't give a fuck!
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 9
TheCatt Search for posts by this member.
Top 2%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 22951
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,14:01 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
Fine, what?

--------------
It's not me, it's someone else.
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 10
GORDON Search for posts by this member.
90%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 36125
Joined: Jun. 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,16:27 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

(TheCatt @ Oct. 15 2014,17:01)
QUOTE
Fine, what?

Well at first it was just a flippant, button-pushing offhand "cuz bicyclists are annoying huh" knowing there was at least one here, but then people acted irritated about the comment in two different threads so now just forget it.

Point was he blew the light and I wondered if it was legal.  The fantasy of tapping him with my mirror was just a joke, not because this middle aged dude was dressed like a douche with his douche helmet and douche shirt and tight douche shorts.

--------------
I don't give a fuck!
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 11
TheCatt Search for posts by this member.
Top 2%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 22951
Joined: May 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,16:29 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

(GORDON @ Oct. 15 2014,19:27)
QUOTE
tight douche shorts.

Jealous

--------------
It's not me, it's someone else.
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
 Post Number: 12
GORDON Search for posts by this member.
90%
Avatar



Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 36125
Joined: Jun. 2004
PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 15 2014,16:32 Skip to the previous post in this topic.  Ignore posts   QUOTE
Plus he was in a douche part of town near the church I used to get dragged to every week that ended up being full of douches so I probably had some subconscious anger there, somewhere.

--------------
I don't give a fuck!
Offline
Top of Page Profile Contact Info 
11 replies since Oct. 15 2014,09:54 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track This Topic :: Email This Topic :: Print this topic ]


  		reply to topic new topic new poll

» Quick Reply Grownups who ride bicycles places
iB Code Buttons
You are posting as:

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code