Road Courtesy Is Dead !

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  • going_home
    Hebrews 13:8

    • Dec 2004
    • 8343
    #1

    Road Courtesy Is Dead !

    <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/24572222?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/24572222">3-Way Street</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user5235893">ronconcocacola</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>



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    • vf-xx
      Henchmen Inc.
      • Nov 2001
      • 3311
      #2
      Having never been to NYC, I just figured that there was no such thing as courtesy at all in that city. So I'm not surprised that the bike messengers are crazy.
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        • BTAutoMag
          AO's Problem Child
          • Oct 2001
          • 7199
          #3
          when i clicked this the thought "Who the hell is Road Courtesy?" honestly went through my mind.
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            • Frizzle Fry
              AO Micromag Guy
              • Mar 2009
              • 3280
              #4
              I'm from Massachusetts...

              There are HERDS of those two wheeled pedal-powered Darwin award runner-ups on my commute, morning and night. They weave in and out of traffic on back roads and downtown, scooting between parked cars and cars stopped at lights, clusters of them taking up the entire lane and doing 20mph in a 45mph zone while you're trying to get to work or make it to the bank before it closes... The worst part is that they'll yell "SHARE THE ROAD" or "OBEY THE RULES OF THE ROAD" (their mantra) when you pass them or honk, and yet they'll be hogging the road and shamelessly breaking the law as they do it.

              I wake up to these dingleberries blasting NPR podcasts on their speaker systems as they whiz through my somewhat secluded neighborhood every freakin' morning; ever heard of headphones? These are the same neon spandex clad nincompoops that call the police when you yell out your window at them after you've almost killed them when they blew through a four-way intersection without the right of way - true story, both the officer and I had a laugh. They don't seem to have jobs, just $9000 carbonfiber bicycles and $1500 body suits, so it's an endless parade of slow moving obnoxious not-quite-pedestrians from about 5am to 10pm where I live.

              Long story short, bike messengers in the city may be dangerous, but they're not nearly as annoying as regular old bicyclists in the 'burbs, and frankly you're much less likely to be sued if you reduce one of the former to a thin paste on the asphalt with your F-150.

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                • VailSkibum
                  Go Big or Go Home
                  • May 2009
                  • 254
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Frizzle Fry
                  but they're not nearly as annoying as regular old bicyclists in the 'burbs,
                  You should see the enormous amount of 'grape smugglers' that invade a resort town. Vail passed a law last year that says you need to leave a "4' buffer" between cars and 'cyclists. Now, I don't know how many of you have been to Vail, but I-70 runs down the middle of the valley, with 2 frontage roads that parallell it on the north and south. Basically 2 main roads and a highway run through town. No mas.

                  Vail and Eagle Co. has spent millions on bike paths and bike friendly improvments through-out the valley. So what do these two-wheel rodeo clowns do? They ride 3 & 4 wide down the middle of the road snarling traffic, ride down stairs and sidewalks all over town, terrorize the elderly and people w strollers and dogson leashes while whizzing in and out of the pedestrian only areas, leaving their stupid Aqua-Fina bottles all over the town...

                  My typical ride to work:
                  #1 (Friend to cyclist) "Hey man,.. I heard there is a bike path around here. Do you know where it is?"
                  #2 (Smuggler) "Why, yes! It runs along the creek. It's beautiful. It's like 75 miles long too! You should try it out one day."
                  #1 (in unison)"Sounds great!... WHY DON'T YOU USE IT THEN, AND GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD!!"
                  Then they wil loudly cry to the local paper, and the cops. and the town... They really do think that as long as they spend a few measley bucks, they have free reign to do whatever suits them. Spoiled.

                  Long story short... Why do they call it "Tourist Season" if we can't shoot @ 'em?

                  I do see common ground though. I propose we combine our 2 sports into one. They can ride, and we can work on our snap shooting!!

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                    • BiNumber3
                      Dazed and Confused

                      • Feb 2008
                      • 1038
                      #6
                      Bike's that ride dangerously occur in every city I've been in, but bad drivers and pedestrians are everywhere too.

                      The vid showed quite a bit of everything.... not just bikers.

                      I myself ride a lot, but I ride following road rules as though I were driving, since I'm squishie even witha a pretty helmet

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