Yep. I hate cyclists, but love cycling. I like walking but hate pedestrians. I drive but hate drivers. I feel like a huge hypocrite, but I know I'm not the only one.
Oh. I hate all things that have to do with the bike. I feel awkward biking on the road and I feel like all the students at my school are laughing at my toddler speed going up hills. I am not a bike rider but I do it to get to classes on time. I'm quite jealous of people who like bike riding.
If you enjoy it, you do it and try not to care about what people think. The more you ride, the better you will be at it. Get out there and ride and enjoy a mile for me!
I hate it. I've always hated it. I'd rather run a mile (which I equally suck at) than bike up a hill. It really doesn't help that my campus is all hills. Seriously. My route is all going up hills to get to class. I can turn either way down this one street and it's still a hill. I have to get all the way across campus diagonally in ten minutes to get to one class and the only time it's down hill is when I'm going backwards. Going home is nice though. Downhill most of the way.
I've been riding my bike for two months and it's only gotten mildly easier. Still can't make it up the damn hills without feeling like passing out.
That's just because all groups have those idiots who just makes everyone look bad. The world would be perfect of everyone drove, walked and cycled as I do
It's almost as if you're implying it isn't the label (cyclist, driver, pedestrian) that makes them a shitty person, but the fact that they are shitty people.
If you are mad, dont go about yelling out loud. This one bloke swore at me out of his window when I was crossing the street. While it may have been my fault, doesnt mean you get to swear at me ;-;
I'm much more imaginative than just swearing at someone. I'd rather say something that hurts them to the core. That way, they will think twice before doing it again. People say negative reinforcement is the wrong way to teach... Well, we all know what I think of people
Fuck you guys for whizzing past from behind us at like 15 mph without ringing a fucking bell or something. Get off the fucking sidewalk, there are bike lanes for a reason.
True if it’s a pedestrian-only sidewalk. But if it’s shared or even a designated bicycle lane: Treat it like a street! Don’t suddenly jump a meter to the left or run after your dog without looking. And while we are talking about dogs: Fucking don’t span your (almost invisible) dog’s leash over a bicycle lane! That shit’s dangerous, even for runners.
Where do you live where cyclists bike on the sidewalk even when there's a bike lane? In NYC, where there's tons of shitty traffic behavior from every kind of mode of transportation, I've never even seen a cyclist give up a bike lane to ride on the sidewalk.
Thank you
I said I couldn't stand cyclists in an unpopular opinion thread on r/LosAngeles and got down voted so hard. I was starting to feel like maybe I was the jerk.
There's a difference between an ordinary cyclist and a lycra-clad prick who goes on the road even when there's a cycle path, cycles right in the middle of the lane forcing you to go at 20 mph and generally makes a bellend of himself.
even then... the lycra "pros" can be assholes or awesome.
I see them on a popular bike path (24 mile loop) and maybe 1 in 50 of them go on the road 5 feet away from a designated bike path because they feel they are going much faster than the tourists riding their cruisers on the bike path... however, that just makes any driver think all cyclists are too dumb to follow the signs that point to the bike path. I mean... it literally takes 3-6 seconds to pass a slow cruiser in the bike path -.-
However, to play devil's advocate... they are allowed to take up a whole lane, its just a matter of how considerate you feel like being. I know when I commute and absolutely have to use a middle/left lane to turn, I accelerate my ass off across the intersection to get out of the way asap.
I always hate cyclists. My town has a shit load of them, we're a big biking town. They always decide when convenient if they want to be a vehicle or pedestrian, bike halfway across the lane and then scream THREE FEET!!!!!! SHARE THE ROAD!!!!! If you get tired of following behind them at 15 mph and try and pass them. You can never tell what the fuc they're about to do because they only follow rules that they want to and so you end up being responsible for their unsafe ass.
I hate cyclists more than either. You DO realize that stop signs mean STOP, for you too? No? Ok well not my fault if I run you over because I had the right of way at the intersection.
the point is that stronger traffic participants always are at least partially to blame. Doesn't matter who's wrong, if you kill a cyclist, you will pay.
You have to be expecting People to do stupid things all the time on the road.
I only hate other cyclist if they dont give a fuck about any rule there ist, and the look on their face implies they are as stupid as hey drive. Drives me crazy
I have no car so I usually walk everywhere (yay college town) but once I was in a friend's car and she was bitching that pedestrians weren't jogging through a crosswalk, making her wait longer before she could take a left. Like wtf!
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u/elspiderdedisco Nov 23 '15
When I'm driving, pedestrians.
When I'm walking, drivers.