Yup. I’ve been on two wheels since June, and thankfully, I’ve only run into a handful of crazy drivers who make it a point to let met know how much they hate me being on the road.
America uniquely hostile to non-car transport. I feel safer riding a motorbike through the densest traffic Vietnam has to offer, in the middle of a monsoon than an American stroad.
Yup, and you can be obeying traffic laws and operating perfectly safely and at least one asshole will still act inappropriately toward you just for using the road.
Traffic laws in America are dumb as shit, especially those designed around 2-wheelers. You can be perfectly legally blocking traffic and creating an unsafe situation for everyone behind you by being or pretending to be a car doing 10 mph.
We must all share the road, the bicyclists who take up a lane when the shoulder is clear and they aren’t turning left or something are nearly as big assholes as the drivers who see a bike filtering at a light or stopped traffic and move to block them.
The cyclists have every right to use the road as you do, and whether you like it or not is immaterial. The only exception is a freeway.
The assholes are the people in the two-ton death machines who think it’s their prerogative to endanger someone’s life because they want to get to that red light ahead two seconds faster.
The cyclists have every right to use the road as you do
I haven’t driven a car in years.
You’re an asshole if you block traffic for literally no benefit to anybody and you will be treated that way whether you’re doing it in a car, bicycle, mobility scooter, or just dancing in the middle of the road taking videos during traffic.
To be clear, the other dumb laws for 2wheelers include where filtering and splitting are illegal, allowing cars to park blocking the bike lane, not allowing bikes to use sidewalks and instead forcing them to act like cars.
Yup. I’ve been on two wheels since June, and thankfully, I’ve only run into a handful of crazy drivers who make it a point to let met know how much they hate me being on the road.
But even that handful is fucking scary.
America uniquely hostile to non-car transport. I feel safer riding a motorbike through the densest traffic Vietnam has to offer, in the middle of a monsoon than an American stroad.
Yup, and you can be obeying traffic laws and operating perfectly safely and at least one asshole will still act inappropriately toward you just for using the road.
Traffic laws in America are dumb as shit, especially those designed around 2-wheelers. You can be perfectly legally blocking traffic and creating an unsafe situation for everyone behind you by being or pretending to be a car doing 10 mph.
We must all share the road, the bicyclists who take up a lane when the shoulder is clear and they aren’t turning left or something are nearly as big assholes as the drivers who see a bike filtering at a light or stopped traffic and move to block them.
The cyclists have every right to use the road as you do, and whether you like it or not is immaterial. The only exception is a freeway.
The assholes are the people in the two-ton death machines who think it’s their prerogative to endanger someone’s life because they want to get to that red light ahead two seconds faster.
I haven’t driven a car in years.
You’re an asshole if you block traffic for literally no benefit to anybody and you will be treated that way whether you’re doing it in a car, bicycle, mobility scooter, or just dancing in the middle of the road taking videos during traffic.
To be clear, the other dumb laws for 2wheelers include where filtering and splitting are illegal, allowing cars to park blocking the bike lane, not allowing bikes to use sidewalks and instead forcing them to act like cars.