r/PublicFreakout • u/gravityVT • Oct 06 '24
r/all Satisfying video of cop stopping rude bicyclists
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u/DickEd209 Oct 06 '24
Cop : "I'm not singling any of you out..."
Dumbass cyclist proceeds to single himself out.
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u/Mackheath1 29d ago
"No need for Lucifer to fall if he'd learned to keep his mouth shut."
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u/ResponsibleMilk7620 Oct 06 '24
Clearly a moment when keeping your mouth shut is to your advantage.
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u/RojoCinco Oct 06 '24
In a survival situation, this is the guy who gets eaten first.
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u/ledouxrt Oct 06 '24
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u/bobdiamond Oct 06 '24
Haaaaaans, bubbbbby
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u/VirtualContribution Oct 06 '24
I'm your White Knight
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u/dv666 29d ago
I must have missed 60 Minutes
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u/joenathanSD 29d ago
If you would have seen it, it would have said āCome out to the Coast! Weāll have a few laughs!ā
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u/DickButtPlease 29d ago
While talking with Hans, one of the henchmen brings Ellis a Coke. He gives Hans a look that basically says, āAre you kidding me?ā Hans gives the look of, āGood help is hard to find." It wasnāt until I was an adult that I realized that Ellis had asked Hans for coke.
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u/Fantactic1 29d ago
Thatās a great one I only recently realized. My favorite moment in this scene though is when Hans grabs the gun, Ellis is like āwoah, what am I a method actor Hans?!ā
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u/murderfack Oct 06 '24
I knew Key was drawing inspiration from someone specificĀ
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u/Kasegauner Oct 06 '24
That was great. The "I played Richard the Third" bit is a reference to an Alan Rickman line in Galaxy Quest. I giggled when I heard that.
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u/rahkinto Oct 06 '24
Never hurts to keep one in the friend group š
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Oct 06 '24
By the sound of it, he wasn't part of the group. He said he was stopped when the group rode by. So he's either lying, or he really wasn't part of the group.
It'd be funny if it was both: he wasn't part of the group and he lied about stopping at the stop sign.
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u/PR35758 29d ago
I'm betting he was part of the group because the one biker tells him to stop talking. Definitely part of the pack.
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u/badluckbrians 29d ago
Nobody gets up and puts on a Lance Armstrong lycra suit to pretend he's riding the Tour d'France by himself.
You only put on those spandex to show off your package to your "married" biker bros.
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u/Protoliterary 29d ago
Well, this just isn't true. I see it all the time in the summer. I live in a pretty small town and it's not at all uncommon to see single riders in full spandex. Hell, I've done it myself a few times over the years when I went out for longer rides.
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u/catupthetree23 29d ago
I think I know what you're talking about - weren't there cars around that witnessed it and pulled over with the biker to try to tell the cop he was innocent?
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u/Tw4tl4r Oct 06 '24
He has the same mentality kids have when you catch them in a group that is doing something they shouldn't be doing "I'm not with them, I just happened to run into them right before you got here".
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u/dearzackster69 Oct 06 '24
The anguish in the other guys' voices when they were telling him to stop talking. ššš
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u/Nanosleep1024 Oct 06 '24
Yep. No way the cop wanted to write all those tickets. A ticket for one asshole, sure! The whole speech was just to identify the asshole.
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u/James_099 Oct 06 '24
He was totally that kid that asked the teacher if they had any homework right before the bell rang.
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u/SonoranLiving 29d ago
Recently asked my boss if we were having our stand up that wasnāt on the calendar, smh as soon as I sent it I regretted it
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u/654456 Oct 06 '24
You are never going to win on the side of a road with a cop. Even if you have all the proof in the world you were right. So shut up and as soon as you're free to go call a lawyer
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u/NewKitchenFixtures 29d ago
The only people Iād heard of busted for street racing were the ones who insisted they were not racing. Everyone else just got a verbal warning.
In retrospect the police were probably being too soft on the idiots for doing that. But I guess they cared more about repeat behavior.
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u/654456 29d ago
Cops, don't like when you lie to them, don't incriminate yourself but don't bullshit the cop, they will go softer on you, but at the end of the day you can't talk yourself out of a ticket but you can talk yourself into one.
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u/wdfx2ue 29d ago
In my life I've seen several people talk themselves out of tickets and I've seen several people talk themselves into more penalties and worse consequences when it comes to dealing with cops.
In 100% of the cases where it gets worse they were argumentative, sarcastic, indignant, insulting or combative with the cops.
In 100% of the cases where people got out of penalties or tickets they were polite, apologetic, accepting of the facts, respectful and said basic standard things you would in any nice conversation like "yes sir", "please", "thank you", etc.
I've been in both camps in my life. I've been in cars with people in both camps. I've seen it happen outside of bars, on the street, on the bus.
You can tell me whatever you want about the poor state of criminal justice in America or whatever country, use terms like "police state" and "bootlickers" and all the buzz words, and you're probably right.
But when it comes to you being in this situation in the moment talking to police, facing hundreds/thousands of dollars in fines or even jail time, you have some choices. One of them might work sometimes, the other will never ever work. It doesn't matter who is right or wrong in that moment. Go to court afterwards, get a lawyer, whatever.
You don't have to say, "Yes, officer I'm guilty," but you're never going to insult or piss off a cop so much that he decides you're right and he's wrong. Ain't gonna happen.
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u/Jester-252 Oct 06 '24
Was that fool ever in school?
There is times when teachers is going to dress down the class instead of individual punishment. Just keep your head down and eat crow.
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u/Pork_Chompk Oct 06 '24
True, but you obviously haven't experienced the irresistible sense of entitlement that comes with putting on your douche suit, jumping on your bike, and hitting the streets with your boys. It's one of the most powerful forces in nature.
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u/jdsamford Oct 06 '24
Every moment with police involved should be a clear moment to keep your mouth shut.
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u/static_age_666 Oct 06 '24
yo his one buddy was trying really hard to help him out on this one lmao
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Oct 06 '24
Dude talked himself into a ticket. It's possible that if he showed some remorse, he would've gotten away with just a verbal takedown.
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u/PunishedWolf4 Oct 06 '24
But if they keep their mouth shut, how are they supposed to brag about cycling?
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u/L3p3rM3ssiah Oct 06 '24
I think the cop was just going to give them a dressing down until the one asshole opened his mouth and essentially asked for a ticket.
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u/RedistributedFlapper Oct 06 '24
He had the right to remain silent, but didnāt have the ability.
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u/Qarlito Oct 06 '24
Nah he was the one that wouldnāt stop goofing off after the teacher said āif you donāt stop, the whole class has to stay after classā
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u/futuremayor2024 Oct 06 '24
And then definitely tried to pass blame off.
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u/cheffgeoff 29d ago
Twenty years later he's on reddit talking about how all teachers are useless vindictive bastards who only work 4 hours a day for 6 months of the year.
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u/GoodDog2620 Oct 06 '24
As a teacher, Iād say this is the kid who will blatantly be on their phone, and when asked to put it away, will say, āwhy? Everyoneās on their phone.ā
(Even if theyāre not.)
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u/c4sanmiguel Oct 06 '24
I bet he was the kid that screamed "I WASN'T EVEN DOING ANYTHING!" every goddamn time they got caught talking in class
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u/AccidentalPilates Oct 06 '24
Hey leave nerds alone, this has āmy dadās a lawyerā written all over it.
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u/DM725 Oct 06 '24
Nope. He was the one that kept running his mouth after the teacher stopped class to use bad behavior as a teachable moment.
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u/TraditionalTell5541 Oct 06 '24
That's it. The cop wasn't being rude or anything and einstein had to flap his gums for no reason whatsoever.
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u/his_rotundity_ Oct 06 '24
It would have been rad if he ticketed them all (because they're asshole cyclists) but told them it was only because he opened his mouth. Fastest way to lose your cycling buddies.
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u/almargahi Oct 06 '24
āIām sorry officerā
āThanks for apologizing, youāre free to goā.
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u/IWantAppleJuice 29d ago
"That was good, wasn't it? Because I DID know I couldn't do that!"
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u/A_Spicy_Speedboi 29d ago
If we get to āsprinkle some crack on āem, letās get out of hereā I want another video.
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u/djdrinks Oct 06 '24
As a skateboarder for over 25 years, I've been kicked out of a million places by the cops. Being respectful and apologizing will get you out of 99% of these situations.
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u/karma_cucks__ban_me 29d ago
aye... show respect and respect will be given typically how this stuff works out
Sometimes you get the asshole cop who just wants to chew some ass but in my personal opinion you get bonus points if you can crack a joke and make the cop laugh
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u/jack_skellington 29d ago
crack a joke and make the cop laugh
Cop pulled me over, came up to my car window, and asked if I had been drinking. With a sad face I held up a bottle of chocolate milk and said, "Only this, but I don't think it'll change the fact that I must just be a shitty driver." He started laughing and let me go.
I wasn't even trying to be funny. I was honestly dejected because it seemed like his question was one of disbelief, like: "Damn, this guy is such a terrible driver he must be drunk, because how humiliating would it be if he drove like this sober."
I'll accept the no ticket, though. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
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u/baklavoth 29d ago
Don't crack a joke, not worth it, if they laugh they'd have let you go anyway, if they don't - you turned out disrespectful. Bonus points don't exist, only trouble or no trouble
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u/humjaba Oct 06 '24
Love that everyone else was just like āshut up dudeā
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u/UpperApe 29d ago
As a beginner cyclist I've heard a lot of horror stories about how terribly everyone treats you.
Been cycling 3x a week for a year now and I've never had one bad experience with anyone. Drivers smile when you wave at them and thank them for stopping, pedestrians are kind when you ring your bell and say "excuse me" or "thank you", construction workers are almost always helpful and let me break rules to get shortcuts if I ask nicely. I think most cyclists feel this way.
I guess what I'm saying is some cyclists are just entitled cunts.
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u/LifeIsRadInCBad 29d ago
As a mountain biker, if I'm on a city street between trails and a pack of spandex starts to pass me, I just get out of their way. They're complete assholes.
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u/originalschmidt 29d ago
Itās almost as if when you are kind people are kind to you. I really wish more people understood this, most people want to be nice and kind but assume others wonāt be, the second you make the choice to go out and be nice, kind, and cheerful, the world becomes nicer, kinder and more cheerful.
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u/dearzackster69 Oct 06 '24
We need to bring back calling people Liars to their faces more.
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u/Youre-doin-great Oct 06 '24
How does someone accidentally honk at you lol
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u/PluckPubes Oct 06 '24
funny story:
i was driving my Subaru in my 25mph neighborhood that doesn't have sidewalks. Two ladies were walking on the shoulder as I drove up behind them. I had 1 hand at the 12 o'clock position when all of a sudden my car's safety feature decided to slam on the brakes for no reason. The momentum thew my forearm into the steering wheel and I accidentally honked scaring the shit out of the ladies. I rolled down the window and apologized and said the car stopped by itself. I'm sure that made absolutely no sense to them.... why tf would the horn go off then??
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u/MadCat1993 Oct 06 '24
I used to drive a moving truck with that feature, it can be surprising at times.
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u/ThirdWorldOrder 29d ago
I hate that auto brake horseshit. If you're in a wooded area and start backing out it'll always slam the brakes because it sees a twig or something
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u/NiKOmniWrench Oct 06 '24
It's more of a reflex than an accident.
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u/Slartibartifarts Oct 06 '24
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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Oct 06 '24
*sees cyclist swerve a bit into your lane as you're passing just to fuck with you *\
Ftft
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u/spurlockmedia 29d ago
I have legitimately accidentally honked vehicles, but I have never in my vehicle operating history accidentally honked AT someone.
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u/kushnoketchup Oct 06 '24
The more affluent the suburb, the more militant and rude these folks become.
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u/OuchMyVagSak 29d ago edited 29d ago
Seriously, Juno Beach is the absolute worst! One lane road with clearly marked bicycle lane, but as soon as it's
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u/Due-Scheme-6532 29d ago
Its true. The rich douchebags along Lake Michigan are always pulling shit like this. I fucking hate them.
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u/mrkananaskis Oct 06 '24
IIRC, the first two clips are from a news story in Vancouver BC, so unrelated to the cop part.
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u/jtejeda94 Oct 06 '24
This was a pretty tame example but it makes me wonder how many online posts are carefully edited with unrelated footage to dramatize or emphasize a story.
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u/bridoogle 29d ago
Iāve been seeing it more often recently but, just like this guy above you, someone in the comments always points it out
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u/outdatedelementz Oct 06 '24 edited 29d ago
I like drinking milk when Iām cycling.
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u/Gryphon6070 Oct 06 '24
I commend your choices. I get the losing your momentum aspect, but if drivers are being told to āshare the roadā, it is required for bicyclists to FOLLOW those rules.
I live in a community that is full of paved bike paths all over (the planning is actually discussed in colleges) and we STILL have packs 20-30 deep that run stops.
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u/spike_right Oct 06 '24
We have dedicated cycle paths around my area and yet still half the cycles usually it's these ones in the full lycra that never use them and are the ones that break the road rules.
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u/Turrichan 29d ago
Rural Canada. We have very few bike paths so lots of cycling (mineās just commuting) is done alongside cars and the only way to make it (especially with the cargo bike) is to basically pretend youāre another car on the road. Apply all the vehicular laws to you and go from there, using the space allotted to you as a vehicle. Stop where cars would stop. Go when cars would go. Pretty common sense. In a place like this with no bike paths or shoulders people get it. If the come factor allows it, then you can be on the edge of the road but still, not always possible or feasible.
I donāt understand the logic of not acting in accord with the rules of the road when youāre one the road (as a cyclist or otherwise). If youāre biking for continuity/speed/momentum/etc then youāre in the wrong place.
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u/Gryphon6070 Oct 06 '24
I hear ya,and donāt want that all. I am all four bike lanes and sharing the road, but not when the rules arenāt followed or I miss a light because some dude is blocking traffic to let his pack through.
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u/nitid_name Oct 06 '24
There should be different rules for cyclists (and motorcycles) than cars; they're different types of vehicles that can use the roadway in more efficient ways than cars.
For example, in Idaho, Delaware, Arkansas, Oregon, Washington, Utah, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, Minnesota, Alaska, and Washington DC, cyclists can treat stop signs as yields.
Most of those states and a handful of others (e.g. Virginia) have similar laws about filtering (aka lane splitting in stopped traffic) and treating red lights as stop signs on two wheeled vehicles. Motorcycles and bicycles can ride two abreast in one lane in most states in the US. It makes sense, and helps traffic move more efficiently. Traffic is not a zero sum game.
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u/silentrawr 29d ago
Not to mention the double standard in the three-foot rule (maintain at least three feet distance while passing - law in over half the states). If you muck it up car to car, the worst that happens is one person gets a ticket and the other makes an insurance claim. But when it happens car to bike, one person gets a ticket (rarely) and the other one goes to the hospital.
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u/DeadpoolOptimus Oct 06 '24
Absolutely agree, cyclists canāt have it both ways.
They certainly fucking try.
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u/Breakr007 29d ago
I'm in Copenhagen now. Great bike city! There's pretty well defined bike lanes to go everywhere and even separate traffic lights for cyclists.
Nevertheless, it's incredibly important that you actually STOP and follow these rules. The result is a pretty streamlined experience where you're mostly able to pick up speed quickly from point to point and share the road with cars and pedestrians alike.
But people aren't out here just trying to ride continuously to keep their stupid heart rate in the right zone. It's a city, so it's a commute. I think if you want a workout, go somewhere where there's not many other people and you don't have to stop.
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u/waldo_whiskey Oct 06 '24
Life in a city full of bike lanes and tons of trails. Still had some asshole burn through a stop sign and cross right in front of me. Had to slam my brakes to avoid hitting him.
Saw him ride down the wrong way on a sidewalk seconds later. I naturally caught up with him and saw him meet up with a huge crew of other riders.
Instantly hated every single one of them!
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u/thesuperbro Oct 06 '24
I'm an avid driver of motor vehicles and I also think it sucks that I have to stop at stop signs and red lights because it kills all of my momentum and it takes a lot of gas to speed get back up to speed.
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u/will3025 Oct 06 '24
I'm an avid walker and love to use my legs to go places. But I hate having to stop to use doors. It's hard on my knees and I lose all my momentum. Sometimes I really just want to jump through windows instead because it's faster.
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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Oct 06 '24
A non-snarky response for you, if you're someone that does ever use bikes for commuting, this is the exact use-case for e-bikes. Use the motor to get to speed and then pedal lightly to maintain/recharge.
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u/SmallMacBlaster Oct 06 '24
I ride on paved bike trails that are free of stop signs and traffic signals.
Where might that be? The ones around here have all of that plus they abruptly end and you have to teleport yourself and your bike somewhere else every fucking 500 meters. Just like that.
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u/ms6615 29d ago
Also lots of trails are only intended to be recreational, so they arenāt maintained for shit. Almost every time I get threatened for ānot being in the bike laneā itās because itās in complete disrepair. Trust me if it werenāt somehow more dangerous to be over there than it is to get close passed by 50 angry suburbanitesā¦Iād be over there!!!
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u/CombatConrad Oct 06 '24
As a road bike owner and in an area that is flooded with riding clubs, I ride alone for a reason.
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u/Dry_Manufacturer4705 Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
Thatās what they all should do. In my country those groups of cyclists are aggressive, annoying and they put everyone else in danger. They think they own the road because they are with a large group. I think big groups of cyclists should be banned in every town or city center.
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u/Halvus_I Oct 06 '24
In Oregon, we allow bicyclists to view a stop sign as a yield, as long as they have the right of way.
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u/Chatshirez Oct 06 '24
Cars also hate to brake and lose all that momentum, wasting a bunch of gas and wearing out the brakes. It's not just a bike thing. Most bikers just think they can ride free from rules and have everyone else yield to them as if they're pedestrians.
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u/Ice_Inside Oct 06 '24
Now do this for the assholes on motorcycles riding in packs.
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u/biznatch11 Oct 06 '24
Yes please. A few weeks ago a group of over 100 motorcycles drive through my city in a huge pack, ignoring red lights and blocking other vehicles who had the right of way.
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u/turboderek Oct 06 '24
He should have follow them thru his city. they would have had to stop at red light and stop sign
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u/ermalicious 29d ago
As a fellow cyclist, they all should have been following rules of the road like they were a car. Stop at red light stop at stop signs. In most cases, cyclists get hit because a car turns right and the biker T-bones the car! They are all idiots and have their fingers far up their asses. Way too uptight to even hear a cop tell them that they are riding wrong.
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u/stebbi01 29d ago
My mom always said āthe most important thing to learn in life is when to shut upā
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u/RipsLittleCoors Oct 06 '24
I love how cyclists want to "share the road" then the dumb mfers want to ride 4 abreast and make the cars behind them drive 15mph. See this crap on two lane roads all the time and it is very annoying.Ā
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u/llort_tsoper 29d ago
"Share the road" signs are intended to instruct automobile drivers to share the road, not to direct cyclists to share their lane. In the US these signs are falling out of favor and being replaced with the more explicit "Cyclist May Use Full Lane" signs.
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u/attomsk 29d ago
In a lot of places a single cyclist is allowed to take an entire lane. It is the law to allow the cyclist to ensure that cars only pass when it is safe. Riding on the edge of the road will result in a lot of cars passing unsafely.
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"Cyclists should follow the rules!!!"
Cycles in the middle of the lane.
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u/TheGoalkeeper 29d ago
Riding next to each other and forcing cars to apply the same rules when overtaking cyclists as when overtaking cars is safer for all.
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u/946789987649 29d ago
I can assure you these cyclists are not going 15mph... Not to mention that in any big city, cyclists are probably going faster than snail paced traffic the vast majority of the time.
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u/AlteredRoland42 29d ago
Shouldāve given everybody a ticket then, that guy really wouldāve learned a lesson.
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u/gabsteriinalol Oct 06 '24
Lmao Iām a teacher and this is me when I address a group of kids for making the wrong decision. Most of them will accept it and apologize but sometimes thereās that one that denies it. Everyone else is dismissed and me and the kid will talk it out and possibly have him write an apology letter explaining why itās wrong. In this case itās a ticket though lol
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u/the_iron_pepper Oct 06 '24
I think bicyclists deserve a lot more infrastructure in an increasingly car-centric society, but on the other hand, a lot of them play this stupid game where they refuse to follow rules of the road that are established for everyone's safety, and become really indignant when told not to do shit like lane split (on a goddamn bicycle), run red lights and stop signs, or pack on top of passing lanes in order to refuse to let cars pass. They continue this stupid game when they claim that their safety is more important than the car's because they are risking more damage, but you would think that sentiment would extend to making an attempt at being safe on the road instead of behaving like trolls or like they're intentionally trying to run an insurance scam.
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u/nescienti 29d ago
rules of the road
I think it all flows from the infrastructure problem, because the rules expect bicycles to just behave like cars, and this provokes drivers to homicidal rage. So cyclists who fail to commit crimes like riding on the sidewalk, as drivers seem to expect, get honked and swerved at. Since what provokes a driverās sense that the cyclist is in the wrong is so inconsistent, they become desensitized or even hostile to driversā needs. Some will eventually work their way up to calvinball bullshit like this Lycra squad here. For example:
lane split
This happens because the legal way to do it is to obstruct the center lane when approaching a red light with a right turning lane. Drivers understandably donāt like being stuck behind a guy trying to pedal from a standstill. Cyclists donāt like betting their life on the notion that the cars approaching from behind are paying attention. Where I live some intersections have a bike lane to the left of the right turn lane, training cyclists to filter. Even outside of those intersections, cyclists who take the lane get honked at and cyclists who filter donāt.
When following the law is punished (as, potentially, a capital crime) and breaking it is rewarded, no shit youāre going to create a community of scofflaws trying to write their own rules. Get them all in a group wearing Lycra and theyāre basically the droogs from clockwork orange. That doesnāt excuse it - they should all have their eyelids peeled open in front of a screen showing āRed Asphaltā - but outside of my vindictive fantasies you canāt fix the cyclists without fixing the infrastructure. Or I guess you could hope for drivers not to lose their minds when they have to go slow because a bicycle is in front of them but I think the eyelid thing is more realistic.
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u/Need2register2browse Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
I think if overall drivers would be more willing to accept cycling then we would have fewer problems. The issue is that the "rules of the road" are often times the rules of cars, and they sometimes just don't work for bikes. Other times, drivers do not understand that what they think it correct or faster is actually just wrong driving. I'll bring up two things:
The stop sign. I'm fine with stopping at stop signs alone, but it doesn't work for groups. If you follow the law, each person has to stop and individually go while letting other traffic take their turn, there usually is no rule that recognizes the whole pack as one unit. The solution is just to do it that way anyway, to stop and everyone starts up at the same time again but even that is technically breaking the law. No one wants to fix this because the majority would rather spite cyclists than take a good faith effort at making good rules.
Most drivers do not know how to pass, period. They want to pass cyclists while staying in their own lane rather than waiting for the other lane to clear, taking it completely, and doing a clean pass. Some juristdictions even require single file riding. But this is stupid, with 10 cyclists it is faster and safer to pass a group that is 3x3x3x1 than 10 single file since 3x3x3x1 is basically the same dimensions as a big tractor. But drivers would rather punish pass 10 people single file in the same lane than wait for a safe pass. You shouldn't pass a tractor or another car by driving in the same lane and you shouldn't pass bikes like that either, at that point single file is not faster. But in every single thread about this you will have tons of people raging that cyclists don't want to ride single file and get buzzed the whole time by huge trucks that think a two lane road can fit the oncoming traffic, their truck, and a cyclist simultaneously.
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u/ukulele_bruh 29d ago
The stop sign. I'm fine with stopping at stop signs alone, but it doesn't work for groups. If you follow the law, each person has to stop and individually go while letting other traffic take their turn, there usually is no rule that recognizes the whole pack as one unit. The solution is just to do it that way anyway, to stop and everyone starts up at the same time again but even that is technically breaking the law. No one wants to fix this because the majority would rather spite cyclists than take a good faith effort at making good rules.
its a good point, and if the group individually all stop for the stop sign its really going to inconvenience everyone around even more. Its better that they are a tight pack, its easier to pass 1 pack of cyclist than make 10 separate passes of a single cyclist.
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u/rvkevin 29d ago
Your first point has been done as a protest. People complain about cyclists running stop signs, but they would also complain about cyclists obeying stop signs.
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u/SomethingAbtU Oct 06 '24
The people on scooters are just as bad, they aren't registered and dont have plates, no insurance is required, and they go about doing whatever they want, not following even common sense practices and causing all kinds of dangerous situations on the road. I lost count how many times I almost got run over on the sidewalk by someone on a scooter, when i'm just walking or coming out of a store.
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u/Cichlidsaremyjam 29d ago
I fucking love this shit. I hate how bicyclist act on the roadways. They get too far into a lane to pass so I treat them like I would a car, and follow them. Then when its beneficial to them they blow throw red lights and stop signs like they don't have to adhere to them. Its so frustrating seeing them try to play both sides of the coin. This guy just need to shut up and avoid selling out his group and he would have been fine.
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u/furyousferret 29d ago
After 20 years on the bike and well over 100,000 miles I've learned the best policy to keep your mouth shut when interacting with cars. Even if you're right a few have zero issues brake checking you or trying to run you off the road.
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u/EumelaninKnight 29d ago
So, this is what becomes of that annoying classmate who always had to interject when the teacher was yelling at the class?
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u/fudgepax87 29d ago
hey. I've seen this one! its a classic where the others are going STOP TALKING!
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u/Atlusfox 29d ago
There are two tyoes of cyclists these days. Cyclists and douchebags who ride bikes.
Just like the road hog drivers entitlment at the wheel sucks.
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u/mrDuder1729 29d ago
Only thing I hate more than cops, is fucking bicycle riders who think they own the street. To be fair, this cop did seem chill
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u/777maester777 29d ago
We need him over here in our little European country....this cop is actually respectful.
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u/ronin_cse 28d ago
Why do they wear all the damn spandex though? I get that that is professional biker gear that reduces drag, but none of these people are professional bikers who are at the point of being limited by their drag. I promise that your normal workout gear will suffice and really just jeans are fine for most cases.
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u/robbyjforever Oct 06 '24
As an avid bicyclist- I can say all the real ones who just need to get from point a to point b with a bike fucking hate these people. As soon as you see the spandex you know they are the most entitled fucks ever
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u/Send_Derps Oct 06 '24
Would love for police officers to do this to the giant groups of bicyclists who take up almost 3 quarters of a two lane road here in my city.
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u/CloudPeCe 29d ago
That last moment was wonderful Iām so glad that dude kept talking ššš
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u/Nearly_Pointless Oct 06 '24
The area I lived in had a group of overly entitled guys who rode in the mornings and the ride ended after a climb up a narrow, winding road that had no shoulder and no bike lane. The time the bike group was on it was in the midst of the morning commute period.
I rode that ride once. I rode at a pretty high level and didnāt think that was a smart route nor considerate to our neighbors as it was difficult to pass on the narrow road and even the best riders were doing maybe 12 mph in a 35 zone.
If they ride the route in the reverse direction, they could have rode uphill on a stretch that had a full lane shoulder which was also swept and clean. Piece of cake, nobody gets slowed down and everyone is safe.
Nope, too arrogant to be advised of anything.
Ps. It was mostly guys with professional jobs so the entitlement was off the charts.
Pss. They were not great riders anyway.
PSs. They certainly thought differently.
Psss. None ever showed up to our local races when invited.
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u/Ok_Frosting_6438 29d ago
Everyone has that one asshole in the group that just can't keep their mouth shut.
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u/mrubuto22 Oct 06 '24
What a little weasel tries to sell out his entire group lol