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On Thursday June 28 you called me a fucking asshole, you fucking asshole. You screamed at me that cyclists belong on the road, not the sidewalk. I 100% agree with you, you piece of scum. But it was the Armdale rotary at rush hour, and dying at the hands of a moron driver such as yourself wasn’t on my to do list for that day. I was biking home from a pleasant day at work and you turned my smile upside down. I hope your car explodes next time you’re zooming around the roundabout, uselessly yelling at people, and just as you’re on the brink of death a cyclist who happened to be on the sidewalk saves your life. Fuck you. —You’re the asshole
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2016.
You’re an asshole, breaking the law and giving cyclists a bad name. If you can’t ride through the Armdale roundabout during rush hour, and you ride on the sidewalk instead, you’re an asshole.
Get off the fucking sidewalk, asshole.
I hate this entitled attitude cyclists have. “Oh it’s busy so I shouldn’t have to obey the rules of the road and drive on the street like everyone else.” To those cyclists who do obey the rules, thank you. To those idiots who shoot on and off the sidewalk then get upset when a driver gives them a piece of their mind-I hope the police catch you and give you a financial reminder why you get a whole section in the driver’s handbook!
Walk your bike, asshole.
Typical of some cyclists. they want to be able to use the road or the sidewalk depending on their whims. I bet the OB didn’t even get off their bike at the crosswalk and zoomed right through them without looking.
The King or Queen of the All Butt Puckers speaketh – this driver had every right to call you by your proper moniker once you started pedalling on the sidewalk like a five year old. As already noted – you give cyclists a bad name. Do yourself a favour and hang your bike up. If you can’t handle the roads, you shouldn’t be riding a bike unless you have an overwhelming desire to become a hood ornament.
there are no sidewalks ‘on the rotary’. Instead, they cross the approaches or exits yet are no different than a cross walk on a straight street. clearly the driver can not handle the stress of the cross walks in and around the rotary.
lol, this is one of the least cycle friendly cities I’ve ever lived in. I’ve had a driver nearly sideswipe me into parked cars, at low speed no less, and then say what was i supposed to do, cross the yellow line?
Drivers are ignorant of cyclist rights and the roads are just terrible for riding. The gutter is not a bike lane, and having lanes that disappear as soon as a busy intersection appears is bollocks.
Halifax has spent millions of dollars on so-called bike lanes and initiatives and studies. If this was a less corrupt province, that money would be spent on actual bike lanes and traffic corridors.
And yes, I ride on the sidewalk. I dodge back onto the road when safe, but I’m not endangering my life so hipsters don’t have to see rules being broken.
Life is hard, wear a helmet.
Driving to the Rotary from Quinpool yesterday – cyclist next to my car jumped to the sidewalk, nearly running down a couple of pedestrians in the process. Didn’t faze him in the least even as I yelled: get off the fucking sidewalk, ya knob! Betcha it was Mr. Asshole in his puckered glory.
Yesterday, I headed over to the rotary on my bike cuz I had a hunch…
I was going to cycle around the rotary for 10 minutes to see how many motorists would yield right of way to me.( Remember the rule: vehicles entering the rotary must yield to vehicles already on the rotary)
Well, I ended up cutting my experiment short after just 1 lap around the rotary because at every entrance into the rotary, the driver cut me off and just about side swiped me in the process.
To add insult to injury, when I went to exit the rotary, I almost got struct by a vehicle too.
My conclusion? F#$^ your guys, I’m taking the sidewalk next time.
I’ve biked through the rotary a whole bunch over the years using various entry and exit points. Haven’t been cut off yet. Maybe it’s cuz I’m not a cyclist of the asshole variety.
Also, cycling around here isn’t really as bad as the zealots make it out to be.
GV, fine, as long as you dismount and walk.
When was the last time you saw a driver dismount and push their car across a crosswalk?
Rush hour traffic can be daunting for many cyclists, even though I’ve been pedalling over four decades it remains my least favorite time of the day for traffic jamming. OP, the rotary is actually safer than a lot of other routes as it is quite predictable, and as a cyclist going around it you are actually have a couple of advantages vs cars in terms of navigating around it. First, being 45cm wide as opposed to 175cm wide, a bike takes up less space, and ‘reading ahead’ of your trajectory, you can anticipate a straighter line (less distance) across and around the rotary lanes than a car does. For the same road speed, you can get around the rotary faster than the car by taking less distance to do it. It’s marginal, like taking a diagonal instead of taking a curve, but it can keep a cyclist safely ahead of (and visible to) the cars that will avoid swerving into you. The rotary itself is a fairly fast bit of road: flat, smoothly paved and located fairly favorably in terms of exposure to prevailing wind gusts (reasonably sheltered at the end of the NW Arm). A lot of it does come down to good riding technique, which is much more important than brute strength for riding a bike. Make sure you are in a gear which is easy to pedal fast as opposed to slugging the pedals with a gear that feels hard. It’s a bit like the path of least resistance, although admittedly finding that path, on the rotary at rush hour can require a bit of split second decision making. But motorists are actually quite predictable and so long as they see you moving ahead of them, they’ll avoid bumping into you. Wearing light or bright colours is another good survival strategy. Enjoy your ride!