This is a preemptive strike against all those who don’t like cyclists. I do own the road, I am faster and stronger than your smoke machines.
This is notification that the revolution has begun. I will not be intimidated.
Pass me too closely again and I will write down your license plate, call the cops, and key your car once I know where you live!
Che Lives!
This article appears in May 8-14, 2008.
You poor misguided loony… against a GMC Denali or Chevrolet Silverado your puny little 2-wheeler will lose every time. In fact they may not even notice they have pressed you into the pavement like Wile E. Coyote in a Roadrunner cartoon.Stay out of the way and stop holding up traffic as nature intended until you too can move up to a 4-wheeler..
Poor Keith. You are a very silly man. “as nature intended”. What an absurd thing to say. The day of the private automobile is fading, my friend. The price of gas is never going to go down significantly, no matter what we do. Insurance rates will continue to rise. Meanwhile, municipal governments can’t afford to maintain the roads. The infrastructure is crumbling and we don’t have the resources to fix it. Potholes and other hazards damage vehicles and add to the cost of maintaining them. Soon, the private automobile will be a luxury that only the very wealthy can afford. It won’t happen this year. It probably won’t happen this decade. But it’s coming, and you will probably live to see it. I don’t know what you look like, Keith. But I have this picture of you in my mind, sitting in your car half swallowed by a massive pothole, out of gas and uninsured, screaming at the cyclist whipping past you, “You can’t do this to me! I’m a MOTORIST!!!”
Hey, CC. About five years ago, when gas first went over a dollar a litre, I still had a car. I decided to start cycling to work, a 15 km ride. It wasn’t a deliberate lifestyle change. It was more of a protest. I rode around with a big placard attached to the back of my bike that said, “Fuck You, Ultramar!” The response from drivers was amazing. Honking, waving, high fives at intersections, just overwhelming support. Of course, feeling was running high then. Now it’s simmered down into seething resentment, and since drivers are powerless against the oil companies, they seem to have turned their resentment against us.But the kicker is that once I got used to cycling instead of driving, I loved it. I got rid of my car a year later, and never looked back.
News flash: try as you might, you will NEVER be stronger or faster than a vehicle. I think it’s great that you’re not intimidated, but do you really want to end up as a hood ornament? ‘Cause that’s where your attitude is going to land you.
An n-horsepower vehicle can be used as a deadly weapon. Drivers are required to register their vehicles and become licensed and insured to use them on a public highway. This is not true of a bipedal machine like a bicycle, Olympian rider or not.OP, the key phrase here is deadly weapon. You risk your life and the lives of others when bipedal machines (bikes) operate on n-horsepower platforms (highways).Please direct your bitch to city planners… yes, the ones who tax the shit out of everything and make it illegal for you to ride on the sidewalk… to accommodate you with a region-wide bipedal appropriate platform (foot path, bike path, bike lane, etc.) In the meantime you aught to be careful not to DIE on our highways by competing out of your league. If saving your own ass isn’t reason enough to, in the meantime, stick to side streets and safer avenues, then consider the many lives traveling inside those cars who are endangered by your corpse on the road in rush hour.
You know I’m reminded of something that simply amazed me a few weeks ago. I was near the Halifax Shopping Center and area that I personally felt was impossible to bike ride around from all the idiot drivers.What do I see but a bike rider making a left hand turn at an intersection. I mean an actual properly done left hand turn. What was amazing about it was there were no horns blaring, no fingers being given, and no shouts of get off the road.It was simply amazing the last time I tried it personally I got all of the above, and started walking my bike through crosswalks to avoid it.
I would like to add cyclists to the list of pretentious cock-suckers. I’d say this cyclist had too a few knocks to the noggin without a brain-bucket on, thinking they are “faster and stronger”, laughable. I know I would love to see this cyclist on the side walk, a nice clothes-line and a quick stomp to the face…Followed by a classic “you got knocked-the-fuck out !”
LoL… Not saying I agree with what was said, but Scott, you made me laugh out loud… hahah”You just got KNocked the FUCK out mane” hahah.. classic