We all need to share the road, sure!! However stop driving your bike down the middle of the road and/or refuse to move over for cars. I know it’s the proper thing to do but not everyone can bike to work or live within biking distance. Sharing is a two way street soo move your bike with its basket, luggage whatever your apparatus is to carry your shit around over. Also stay the fuck out of crosswalks cause you want to use the road and be treated like a car then act like one!! —Someone with common sense!!!
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2013.
I’m starting to pine for the days when all we had were bus bitches.
Ob, i have to disagree. Cyclists should be encouraged to take the lane whenever it is unsafe to ride on the side. Based on the mix match of roads that we have, they probably should take the lane more often.
And, just like street sweepers, buses, horses and carriage, tractor trailers, or any other slow moving traffic, you should calm down and adjust your driving.
– someone with more common sense than you
op, if you know it’s the proper thing to do then why on earth are you bleating about it?
Universally despised……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-23…
Only reason why I can afford a house is because I bike.
as for biking distance it took me 23 days to do 3000km with camping gear. if you’re into it enough 18km to work and 18km back is easy. We do have the worst bridge bike ramp in Canada though.
THE BITCH AS MORALITY PLAY
“Sharing is a two way (sic) street sooo (sic) move your bike with its basket, luggage whatever your apparatus is to carry your shit around over.” Someone with common sense
Passing by the atrocious spelling and grammar, we have a Bitch by a motorist against a cyclist but the point I made in “Entitled Motorists” (#19) still stands. There I claimed that the cyclist trumped the motorist because he was more virtuous. In that case “more virtuous” meant “more natural” in the sense that the bicycle lacked an artificial power source, i.e., a motor.
Here, however, more virtuous means “sharing”. Sharing, “Someone with common sense” reminds us, “is a two-way street.” In other words, “Someone with common sense” appeals to the common or public good. But this was also a theme in classical Greek drama. Not to appeal to the public good sinned against the cardinal sin of pride.
Here’s Aristophanes:
“There is a legend of the olden time,
That all our foolish plans and vain conceits
Are overruled to work the public good.”
(Ecclesiazusae, lines 473-474)
So once again we we that the Bitch is simply a Morality Play in modern dress.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
OP is a moron and should read his/her driving hand book.
http://cyclingrelaybill93.wordpress.com/wh…
Cyclists are to ride on the right side of the road in the direction of traffic, but may move towards the centre of the lane when safer in order to avoid hazards or maintain a regular traffic flow -including when riding through a roundabout, turning left, or passing another vehicle.
I find that if I don’t plant my bike in the centre of a lane while waiting for a light that I tend to get run over by cars turning right while I attempt to go straight. So I’m gonna keep pissing you off, OB’er. Same goes for the roundary.
One lady yelled “Excuse me! Can you move over so I can right turn please? You’re blocking my right turn…” at me doing the same thing, Cranky! No, I’m not going to scooch over so you can make your right turn. You are going to get to your destination about 500 times faster than I am. You can hold your pickle so that *I don’t get killed*. Just because you know I’m there and apparently are going to gingerly pass me to make your right turn (which I doubt by the way, I know you’re all trying to collect points and want desperately to grind me into the pavement) doesn’t mean the other yahoos behind you are planning to do the same…
It is down right dangerous for cars to think they can snuggle up next to a motorcycle in a lane just because they don’t use the whole lane.
It is not reasonable to insist that it is any safer for cyclists.
I get the “right turn” crowd every few weeks. Well a car isn’t going to scooch over for you and neither am I. I Also get alot of people pulling up beside me asking for directions. Sure I live in a tourist trap but you wouldn’t do that with a car driving down the road now would you.
Then of course my favorite. Trying to steer you off to the shoulder coming up on a four-way stop. I have bulky medal pedals that can do alot of scratching as we’re both coming to a stop.
I was t-boned by a car a couple years ago. I was in the right, but because it was at an intersection, I have this terrible fear of having to interact with cars going different ways than me. Sometimes, I get off and use the crosswalk because I value my internal organs JUST the way they are.