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Im a cyclist. I know this bugs people.
The thing is the only explanation is envy?
Like if im on the road and then on a path and then back on the road... who cares?
Obviously you need to be sharing the road or the path with other users and not cutting infront of people, obeying laws, being courteous and predictable et cetera.
But what really is so offensive about being a more versatile vehicle?
Bikes need to stop for red lights and stop signs. It's not envy... I've seen cars get T-boned after running a red light, you will not survive that on a bike.
I don't care if you share the road, as long as you follow the rules. If you switch to a path , be aware of pedestrians just like cars have to be aware of bikes. Safety first.
How is this relevant to bikes behaving as both cars and pedestrians ?
I said bikes need to obey laws.
Why does it bother you so much that cyclists behave both as cars and as pedestrians?
Perhaps you can run over pedestrians if you do so? FFS, just stop making the ashole moves you accuse car drivers of, if you want to be taken seriously! Never went to ER with a kid almost by killed by a 100kg male with a racing bicycle, didn't you?
Look im sorry you had that experience, but im not really sure how its relevant here?
Was that guy avoiding an intersection by riding on the foot path? Seems unlikely for a racing bike.
Plenty of people screaming around on bikes unsafely - no doubt about that.
Yes he was doing just that. Switching paths to avoid a red light.
I pretty much just don't believe you.
Even if this is true, and a big heavy guy on a racing bike was riding on the side walk and collided with your child, that sounds like an awful and dangerous situation but it doesn't really change things?
Cars have accidents all the time, bikes have accidents too, sometimes bikes and cars have accidents, some times cars and people have accidents, and sometimes bikes and people have accidents.
In a given incident one or more participants may have been reckless or acted unlawfully, but that doesn't mean that their mode of transport is inherently dangerous.
I never said riding bicycles is inherently dangerous to pedestrians. I just say they are, if they switch to the pavement in full speed.
I think you are unnecessarily offensive and I really dont get, why I have to defend common sense by stating that I am not fine with people taking traffic rules into theyre own hands and endangering others.
Guess i missed the part stating that this comment section is reckless drivers circle jerk...
*dropsout