Inky_Wretch
Well-Known Member
Cyclists
I don't want to have a huge blowout about this topic, but cyclists blowing through stop signs, riding on sidewalks, and riding the wrong way are annoying to me. They are supposed to follow the same rules of the road as drivers, And cops don't or can't do anything because there is no license to hit.
Same.
Too many cyclists want the rest of the world to treat them like cars on the road, but then they willingly disregard the rules of the road.
There's an educational aspect of this. The cyclists you see going against traffic or on the sidewalk are probably on pawn shop bikes (or if you live in a big city, messengers). The roadies in lycra - like these brothers - aren't doing that sort of thing. As for blowing through stop signs, the Idaho stop is the most effective way for cyclists to stay out of drivers' way at intersections. It allows them to treat stop signs as yield signs (and red lights as stop signs), but ONLY if there is no traffic.
I put about 2,000 miles per year on my bike - most of that in town. I put way more than that on my Jeep. I can ashure you, the number of drivers at fault and not following traffic laws dwarfs the number of cyclists (myself included) doing so.