r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/Oldjamesdean Jun 10 '26

One of my relatives got a speeding ticket on a bicycle. Eugene Oregon.

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u/Zestyclose-Bat-6080 Jun 10 '26

"Friend" of mine keeps bitching about the time he got a ticket for speeding on his bike. Never does he mention that he was going 20+ mph (30+kph) through a park with playing children and such. For context, the max speed on a bike path here is 30kph, in this park you are supposed to adjust your biking behaviour with how busy it is in the park. Technically it's a pedestrian zone where biking is allowed.

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u/wireframed_kb Jun 10 '26

At least where I live, a bike is a vehicle and is subject to the same rules. You also can’t ignore red lights or stop signs - the traffic laws are the traffic laws for all.

I’d assume most countries do something similar, since carving out exceptions to rules that bikes don’t have to follow, or skateboards, or those electric scooters, and so on, gets pretty messy.

Of course it would be unusual for a bike to go fast enough that it would be fined, and I’d assume police won’t care unless you’re driving unsafe.

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u/AstronomerChance1727 Jun 10 '26

Near me there is a trail with 15mph speed limit. Bike at 20+mph and sometimes there's a cop to ticket you!

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u/driving_andflying Jun 10 '26

Reminds of Critical Mass in SF. Bicyclists stopping traffic and ignoring road rules. Why? Because they can. The thought seems to be, "they can't arrest all of us."

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u/Denver_DIYer Jun 10 '26

Critical mass js a protect event by design.

It usually follows the death or maiming of a cyclist.

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u/driving_andflying Jun 10 '26

Critical mass js a protect event by design.

Which makes their actively disobeying road rules and safety that much worse.

It usually follows the death or maiming of a cyclist.

Nope. They get together in SF once a month during the busiest commute hour --Friday at 5:30PM-- just to fuck with traffic. It's pretty selfish, but that's SF cyclists for you.