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Has anyone else had it up to their neck with these muppets taking up our roadspace?
Classic scenario today:
I'm in a 100km/h zone. In front of me is some douche bags on their bicycles. One of them is riding in the middle of the lane and another one is next to him. A few metres ahead of them there's also another bicyclist riding in the middle of the lane with his friend next to him.
So this is just before a shallow hill, a hill nonetheless that I can't see over for oncoming traffic. Now I need to overtake these idiots doing 20km/h (max) in the 100km zone. But I can't see in front over the hill so I have to slam on the breaks. However behind me is another car, ALSO doing 100km/hour.
Fortunately the driver behind me was super quick to react and slammed his breaks on otherwise he would've rammed right up my rear.
Now picture this scenario with cars full of toddlers.
Overtake and there's the possibility of a head collision.
Slow down to the bicycle pace and there's the possibility of getting slammed in the back.
This is just ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason why the damn bastards couldn't just ride to the far left of the road where they bloody well belong.
According to www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/publications/corporate/bicycle_safety_fs.pdf
Each year, an average of 35 cyclists are killed and over 2,500 are seriously injured on. Australian public roads.
Bicycle injuries make up a third of all transport-related injuries presenting to hospital emergency departments.
I'm pissed off with these idiots riding in the middle of the fricking road. In a 40 zone it's bad enough, in a 100 zone it's just a joke. They think that they are being all healthy and environmentally friendly, but they just piss everybody off. They don't PAY for the ROADS, they don't register they bicycles, so they shouldn't have the same rights as the people who do.
And now they have massive fines for people who accidentally open their car doors (to get out onto a pathway) and some goose on a bicycle runs into their car door instead of breaking. Outrageous. If we have to look out for their interests, then they should watch out for ours and be careful riding in areas where they KNOW people are constantly getting out of vehicles e.g Car parks.
Also if a woman walks on a side of the road with kids in a pram then it's an absolute f**king disgrace.
But it's ok for someone to ride a bicycle on the side of the road with a 2 year old toddler on the back... hell it's their GOD GIVEN RIGHT apparently.
The other day I even saw a bloke towing a homemade trailer behind his bicycle riding on the side of a road with his kid in the TRAILER!
The trailer was sticking out on the road and each car had to slow down and swerve around it. HOW DANGEROUS IS THAT?
But thanks to the government giving these tools so many right on the road. They think they can do whatever the hell they want.
Seriously, the government either has to pull their finger out and build bicycle lanes to accompany every road (even if they have to renovate some older roads or change the laws and put the bicyclists where they belong - to the very extreme left of the lane.
The statistics show how dangerous the current system is, and if they don't want to make it safer then ban bicycles all together from using the roads designed for motorized vehicles.
I was happy to share the road, but by share I mean share . Ride on the extreme left and don't take up my part of the road. If you can't keep up - piss off.
Anyone has anything to add?
Classic scenario today:
I'm in a 100km/h zone. In front of me is some douche bags on their bicycles. One of them is riding in the middle of the lane and another one is next to him. A few metres ahead of them there's also another bicyclist riding in the middle of the lane with his friend next to him.
So this is just before a shallow hill, a hill nonetheless that I can't see over for oncoming traffic. Now I need to overtake these idiots doing 20km/h (max) in the 100km zone. But I can't see in front over the hill so I have to slam on the breaks. However behind me is another car, ALSO doing 100km/hour.
Fortunately the driver behind me was super quick to react and slammed his breaks on otherwise he would've rammed right up my rear.
Now picture this scenario with cars full of toddlers.
Overtake and there's the possibility of a head collision.
Slow down to the bicycle pace and there's the possibility of getting slammed in the back.
This is just ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason why the damn bastards couldn't just ride to the far left of the road where they bloody well belong.
According to www.carrsq.qut.edu.au/publications/corporate/bicycle_safety_fs.pdf
Each year, an average of 35 cyclists are killed and over 2,500 are seriously injured on. Australian public roads.
Bicycle injuries make up a third of all transport-related injuries presenting to hospital emergency departments.
I'm pissed off with these idiots riding in the middle of the fricking road. In a 40 zone it's bad enough, in a 100 zone it's just a joke. They think that they are being all healthy and environmentally friendly, but they just piss everybody off. They don't PAY for the ROADS, they don't register they bicycles, so they shouldn't have the same rights as the people who do.
And now they have massive fines for people who accidentally open their car doors (to get out onto a pathway) and some goose on a bicycle runs into their car door instead of breaking. Outrageous. If we have to look out for their interests, then they should watch out for ours and be careful riding in areas where they KNOW people are constantly getting out of vehicles e.g Car parks.
Also if a woman walks on a side of the road with kids in a pram then it's an absolute f**king disgrace.
But it's ok for someone to ride a bicycle on the side of the road with a 2 year old toddler on the back... hell it's their GOD GIVEN RIGHT apparently.
The other day I even saw a bloke towing a homemade trailer behind his bicycle riding on the side of a road with his kid in the TRAILER!
The trailer was sticking out on the road and each car had to slow down and swerve around it. HOW DANGEROUS IS THAT?
But thanks to the government giving these tools so many right on the road. They think they can do whatever the hell they want.
Seriously, the government either has to pull their finger out and build bicycle lanes to accompany every road (even if they have to renovate some older roads or change the laws and put the bicyclists where they belong - to the very extreme left of the lane.
The statistics show how dangerous the current system is, and if they don't want to make it safer then ban bicycles all together from using the roads designed for motorized vehicles.
I was happy to share the road, but by share I mean share . Ride on the extreme left and don't take up my part of the road. If you can't keep up - piss off.
Anyone has anything to add?
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