Bicyclists who expect pedestrians to leap out of their way, even when approaching them from behind, so they don’t lose their precious $&@“ momentum, are as bad as car drivers who don’t like sharing roads with bicycles.
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Bicyclists who expect pedestrians to leap out of their way, even when approaching them from behind, so they don’t lose their precious $&@“ momentum, are as bad as car drivers who don’t like sharing roads with bicycles. It’s being an entitled, and dangerous, jerk.
@CStamp A guy speeding down a slight grade shortly after I got off a bus yelled something that I eventually deciphered as “passing on your left!” but I was turning towards the shout behind me as he only just missed me and kept going, yelling angrily how he’d said he was passing.
The same guys who want cars to “share the road” are the ones who think sidewalks are for them and everyone else is intentionally inconveniencing them by using the sidewalk.
(I say “guys” not as an all-genders term, but because *somehow* the asshole bicyclists I’ve met are all male.)
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@CStamp when I worked seasonally at event traffic control for my county parks department, the worst to deal with were bicyclists, almost always aging white dudes in spandex, wannabe racers who didn’t want to stop for anything.
@GPJohnston @CStamp Right?!! Dafuq is up with that.
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@CStamp A guy speeding down a slight grade shortly after I got off a bus yelled something that I eventually deciphered as “passing on your left!” but I was turning towards the shout behind me as he only just missed me and kept going, yelling angrily how he’d said he was passing.
The same guys who want cars to “share the road” are the ones who think sidewalks are for them and everyone else is intentionally inconveniencing them by using the sidewalk.
(I say “guys” not as an all-genders term, but because *somehow* the asshole bicyclists I’ve met are all male.)
@Heartofcoyote Exactly. And, gasp, some people ARE DEAF. Or just very tuned out.
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@CStamp when I worked seasonally at event traffic control for my county parks department, the worst to deal with were bicyclists, almost always aging white dudes in spandex, wannabe racers who didn’t want to stop for anything.
@GPJohnston LOL. That perfectly describes my bad encounters. Not complete without the spandex.
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@GPJohnston @CStamp Right?!! Dafuq is up with that.
@Heartofcoyote @GPJohnston White male entitlement, maybe.
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Bicyclists who expect pedestrians to leap out of their way, even when approaching them from behind, so they don’t lose their precious $&@“ momentum, are as bad as car drivers who don’t like sharing roads with bicycles. It’s being an entitled, and dangerous, jerk.
@CStamp What do the conflicts between bicyclists vs car drivers and bicyclists vs pedestrians have in common?
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Bicyclists who expect pedestrians to leap out of their way, even when approaching them from behind, so they don’t lose their precious $&@“ momentum, are as bad as car drivers who don’t like sharing roads with bicycles. It’s being an entitled, and dangerous, jerk.
Even tho I agree with your observation, now, in hindsight, I never saw, felt or intended to do things like that in a "jerkish" way.
.. it was always just the simple survival race in the jungle. Maximum outcome, a little emotional "susto", a "Schreck" without mayor consequences, except that little arousal feeling of being alive.
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@CStamp What do the conflicts between bicyclists vs car drivers and bicyclists vs pedestrians have in common?
@jon_alper A sense of entitlement.
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@skribe @jon_alper Sure, but they aren’t endangering anyone’s life.
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Bicyclists who expect pedestrians to leap out of their way, even when approaching them from behind, so they don’t lose their precious $&@“ momentum, are as bad as car drivers who don’t like sharing roads with bicycles. It’s being an entitled, and dangerous, jerk.
@CStamp Back when I used to in-line skate outdoors, it seemed that the skaters were more friendly towards those in front of them than bicyclists, with appropriate "on your left!"s.
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