Why the hate for Cyclists?

[jamil]

WTH are you even replying to?

Someone drives a car, they use gas, which they paid use taxes on. They also paid registration fees to use that car on public roads. That means they are actively paying to use the road.

Where did I say anything about a fair share?

The conversation turned to talk of making cyclists pay taxes. I was joking about making cyclists pay for bike lanes, and then making them use the bike lanes.

Well. Half joking. These ****ers in some cities use tax payer money to pay for all these bike lanes that no one uses.

I drive through New Albany often enough and I have never seen anyone using the bike lanes on Spring street. I have seen people riding bikes on sidewalks for **** sake. They took away car lanes to fit bike lanes that no one uses! Let the people who use them pay for them. New Albany wouldn't have bike lanes if that were so. And obviously they would not be missed for it.

 

[Twangbanger]

Did anybody else notice...you could take a thread from Nextdoor of women complaining about fireworks scaring their dogs, redact it for references to content...and it's the exact same thread?

 

[jamil]

Did anybody else notice...you could take a thread from Nextdoor of women complaining about fireworks scaring their dogs, redact it for references to content...and it's the exact same thread?

Prolly no purple necessary.

 

[foszoe]

Did anybody else notice...you could take a thread from Nextdoor of women complaining about fireworks scaring their dogs, redact it for references to content...and it's the exact same thread?

But I love my dog

 

[Twangbanger]

Prolly no purple necessary.

Redacted. And just for the record, I didn't mean you, Jamil. You're the super-helpful, perky one who informs everyone you give your dog a tranquilizer, sticks a roman candle up his ass and he takes it just fine

 

[tmschuller]

Nice diversion. The point you were supposedly making is that somehow cyclists don't pay enough/their share of gas taxes/registration fees/licensing fees

All I did was point out the glaring flaw in your 'argument' and mention some people have multiple cars to forestall an even more specious claim that somehow because we are cyclists we don't drive our cars enough or something to pay our fair share of road use tax

So, if your daily driver is some 18 mpg truck, you probably buy more gas annually than I do for my WRX (which only means you have chosen unwisely) but given total family gas consumption it likely evens out

So I am unwise because my suburban gets 18 mpg and it does..your wrx. that’s probably has grenade for an engine makes who unwise. Better strap the bike on back just in case… as long as this evens out.. this thread is epic. I’m done…

 

[Ingomike]

Oh, and Not Always do puffers have the right of way.

Please post the links where a sail boat with sails up does not have the right of way? The situations are rare where the sail boat does not have standing over the power boat…

https://wow.uscgaux.info/Uploads_wowII/095-45-01/Rules_of_the_Road_for_Sailboats.pdf

 

[Creedmoor]

Please post the links where a sail boat with sails up does not have the right of way? The situations are rare where the sail boat does not have standing over the power boat…

https://wow.uscgaux.info/Uploads_wowII/095-45-01/Rules_of_the_Road_for_Sailboats.pdf

You sail or just a google queen?

 

[Ingomike]

I am not built for spandex. I’ll just say it that way. I typically use MTB shorts in the summer along with a moisture wicking tee shirt. Works fine. In the winter I just layer.

Ride a hundred miles or two hundred and get back to me…

 

[Ingomike]

Wow. That may have been the widest "veering off path" that I've ever seen. You haven't been hitting the devil's lettuce have you Bug?

I rode my bike all over the place when I was a kid. On busy streets (for back then), on neighborhood streets, etc.. Never had an issue, because I respected the motorized traffic and the damage it could do to me if I interacted with it (and helmets, knee and elbow pads, and spandex were never even heard of back then!). I did my darndest to stay out of their way. It worked great! Why the need for all the bicycle "aggression" today?

What you did as a kid riding in a neighborhood is not relevant to those riding 50-100 miles a day…

 

[foszoe]

What you did as a kid riding in a neighborhood is not relevant to those riding 50-100 miles a day…

What's relevant to those riding 50-100 miles a day isn't relevant to 90% of cyclists

 

[Creedmoor]

Please post the links where a sail boat with sails up does not have the right of way? The situations are rare where the sail boat does not have standing over the power boat…

https://wow.uscgaux.info/Uploads_wowII/095-45-01/Rules_of_the_Road_for_Sailboats.pdf

If I would have known you were a sailor you could have rode and stayed with us a few weekends ago. Dang I could have brought you a shirt.

 

[Ingomike]

You sail or just a google queen?

Hate sailing, but love big blocks. Was hoping you could show me how I don’t have to give way to sail boats…

 

[jamil]

Ride a hundred miles or two hundred and get back to me…

Are you a fat ass?

 

[Creedmoor]

Hate sailing, but love big blocks. Was hoping you could show me how I don’t have to give way to sail boats…

Read Chapman's, I'm sure it will be enlightening.

 

[Ingomike]

Are you a fat ass?

I am now. LOL.

Used to ride 6000 miles a year and even with bad knees didn’t need a E-bike to get up hills…

 

[Ingomike]

Read Chapman's, I'm sure it will be enlightening.

Own it and have studied is throughly…

 

[actaeon277]

• Overtaking Situations: Regardless of the type of vessel, the overtaking vessel is usually the give-way vessel. The stand-on vessel should maintain its course and speed, while the overtaking vessel should keep out of the way until it is past and clear.

• Narrow Channels: In narrow channels, all vessels should keep as near the channel’s outer limit on their starboard side. A boat shorter than 20 meters in length or a sailing vessel can not hinder the passage of a vessel that can navigate only in a narrow channel or fairway.
• Traffic Separation Schemes: In traffic separation schemes, a vessel should join or leave a traffic lane at the smallest angle to the general direction of traffic flow. A vessel should try to avoid crossing traffic lanes and should cross on a heading as close as possible to right angles to the prevailing traffic flow direction if obliged.
• Vessels Not Under Command or Restricted in their Ability to Maneuver: These vessels, due to exceptional circumstances, cannot maneuver as required by the COLREGs and are, therefore, usually given the right of way.
• Vessels Engaged in Fishing: Vessels engaged in fishing, when underway, shall have the right of way over other vessels, except those not under command or restricted in their ability to maneuver.

 

[Creedmoor]

Own it and have studied is throughly…

LOL..

 

[Ingomike]

LOL..

Had an unmarked crab pot line in my prop more than once in the Chesapeake bay…

Makes one appreciate a line knife…