People on bikes piss off everyone, everywhere.

How do we get bikers to obey traffic laws? – [Slate Magazine]

Heading home from work yesterday, I ran five red lights and three stop signs, went the wrong way down a one-way street, and took a left across two lanes of oncoming traffic. My excuse: I was on a bike.

I’m far from the only menace on two wheels. A colleague was recently slapped with a moving violation after breezing through a stop sign. My roommate was pulled over 30 feet from our house for the same infraction. And driving around Washington, D.C., recently, I saw a cop scribbling out a ticket to a bewildered biker.

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(se: So it’s true.  Everyone everywhere hates people on bikes.  Basically you know what it is, 99% of people on bicycles believe that they own the road and don’t have to follow the rules of the road.  They get a bike, ride all over the road, don’t signal, don’t follow the rules, and expect everyone to live with it, and go out of their way for them.  A few nights ago I almost ran over two bikers dressed in black, on black bikes, with no lights or reflectors, as they just zig zagged back and forth across the road in a poorly lit area.  You know what would have happened if I hit them right? Some faggy bicycle organization would be calling for my head.

That's what you get for riding like a douche. Fucking hippy..

When I was younger, I was driving around downtown one day, and this biker flew over my hood.  She got up, picked up her bike and started yelling at me while my friend laughed his head off.  She was trying to tell me that I should be looking out for bikers and that she had the right away. This despite her hitting my car and flying over the hood, not me running into her.  She actually rode into the side of my car. The motto of the story? You can’t ride your bike across traffic when cars have the right away and expect everyone is going to stop for you.  You should be following the lights just as cars do.

I would love for Toronto to create a law that says that bike owners need to have their bikes plated and insured, and that they need to pass a bike safety course to get a bicycle license. Make sure they have to legally wear a helmet, have a bell or horn, reflectors and a light on their bike, and HAVE to obey the traffic code just like cars or face nice fat fines.  This would be a perfect way to get these fuckers respecting the road, and keeping people out of danger.  I am still waiting to strangle my first biker, and at this rate it might be soon.)

Cocksuckers on bikes finally get what they deserve

5 hours, 184 tickets

Cops target cyclists for breaking rules of the road during marathon blitz

Of that 184 tickets police issued to cyclists, 49 went to bikers whose bikes didn’t have a working bell. Forty of the tickets were issued because the cyclist didn’t have proper working lights, and 38 were issued to cyclists who were riding on the sidewalk. Other citations were given to cyclists who didn’t stop at red lights or who made improper lane changes.

It’s part of West’s effort to emphasize the fact that bikes need to make themselves obvious on the road. It’s a stance he repeats several times during the enforcement blitz.

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(se: I bought a bike once while living downtown, and then I noticed how people that use bikes as their primary mode of transportation ride around downtown like they own it, like a bunch of arrogant cocksucks that think that no rules apply to them.  I stopped riding.  I didn’t want to be considered one of those people.  While I’m in my car with the right of way, you ride in front of me and give me the finger for

not stopping for you even though you should be following the law.  there was a cyclist killed last month, a bike courier.  I think it was a great start, because I am 100% sure that he started it, he picked a losing battle with a car.  I have no problem mowing down cyclists that don’t follow the law.  Don’t think you are some big shit because you’re a street kid turned courier on a bike, cause I will put you under my wheels.  I really hope that the government turns cycling into a legal mode of transportation where cyclists will have to take a course, get licensed, and be insured.  Then we will see these fuckers acting right!)