[Clem]

Try riding your motorcycle on the highway with no tags, insurance or operators liscense and see what happens to you in court. But, you can ride a bike with a string of bikes behind you, or kids (under aged drivers) can pile themselves all over a scooter and ride on the highway with no regard or knowledge of the rules of the road. Bicycles don't even need to obey the traffic laws - they can ride right through a stop light! More than one bicycle, or a string of them, is a hazzard and must be required to obey the traffic laws that liscensed, tax paying vehicles do - they're a large vehicle.

This is wrong to allow non liscensed traffic on the highway. Our laws are beginning to have large holes that allow a certain few through to do as they wish at the expense and peril of the law abiding. Hit one of these unliscensed vehicles and it is automatically the car, truck or motorcycle drivers fault! Wrong!

Too many spandex wearing bicycleists think they are infallible!

[Red Rider]

Truth is that most places do have laws about those forms of vehicles, they are just not being enforced. Most states require bicycles to be operated in accordance with other vehicular laws, but allowing for bicycles to be pushed across streets in pedestrian mode.

I share your gripes about these guys, for the most part, but I also don't think its worth our deputies' time to spend dawn-to-dusk racing after the pre-teen crowd for improper operation.

I will add that it doesn't seem that a week will go by without some spandex/Eurobillboard-clad bozo ending up as coyote bait on lonely ol' HWY 50, at least not when the weather is nice. They do act like they are invincable and own the road...but they don't, and they keep proving that they are softer, pinker and squishier than the semi trucks that they won't yield to.

Bottom line: their numbers are reducing on a daily basis, so

[Texas Road Glide]

Originally Posted by Clem

Try riding your motorcycle on the highway with no tags, insurance or operators liscense and see what happens to you in court. But, you can ride a bike with a string of bikes behind you, or kids (under aged drivers) can pile themselves all over a scooter and ride on the highway with no regard or knowledge of the rules of the road. Bicycles don't even need to obey the traffic laws - they can ride right through a stop light! More than one bicycle, or a string of them, is a hazzard and must be required to obey the traffic laws that liscensed, tax paying vehicles do - they're a large vehicle.

This is wrong to allow non liscensed traffic on the highway. Our laws are beginning to have large holes that allow a certain few through to do as they wish at the expense and peril of the law abiding. Hit one of these unliscensed vehicles and it is automatically the car, truck or motorcycle drivers fault! Wrong!

Too many spandex wearing bicycleists think they are infallible!

shaking head sideways, i am one those spandex wearing bicyle riding jockeys....i just dont ride on the street any more, cause motorist wear always acting stupid, now i ride trails only, mountain biking has down wonders for me, i still get banged up, cause i am the one in the crowd that always say's "Watch This"......yupp i am that person......and mountain biking does have drawbacks, my son and i have been handle bar to handle bar down some canyon trails (Caprock, PalaDura )that were both steep, and narrow, speeds over 30 mph at times rubbing elbows.
the drawback is when my son and i ride the harleys together, he wants to ride handle bar to handle bar, i get on too him constantly, but he forgets quickly, on his behalf,he has ridin handle bar to handle bars on windy days,winding roads, and intersections. the kid has the gift, but it dont mean i have to like it, its me i'm not sure of......

[Texas Road Glide]

i may wear spandex......
wich by itself is funny to me, you know how there should be laws for fat people and spandex? well ther should be laws for skinny people too,
i wear the spandex,but like the picture in the last post,i wear jeans over them, to keep people like you'll from pointin fingers....
is so glad i traded my road bike for a mountain bike!!!!!!!
ride hard or go home!!!!

TRG

[Red Rider]

TRG - wear whatever ya want on the trails...mountain biking is a real deal, and worthy of respect. But the "Campari" or whatever Italian advert-wearing crowd that think 4,000 plus pounds of steel need to fear them are just so freakin' clueless. We Nevadans will help out most anyone hurtin' on the desert roads, including them, but what the heck goes through a bozos head that gets them thinkin' that they can pedal 110 miles from Fallon to Austin and not need mega-water? No cactus to suck on, just stones and alkali. And then a call to Careflight their sorry, heat-stroked assses back to civilization.

[voodoochild]

We have a lot of bicyclists around here, especially on my street. I've had a run in with them riding in the center of the road, swerving into my lane when you try to pass them, running red lights, etc, etc. I hate them! (BIG sorry to you TRG, No offense intended at all) Anyway, these spandex wearing dip ****s are a real pain in the ass. Ya know, if I can't ride parade style, then neither can you, If I can't run red lights, then neither can you. I always hear "we're vehicles too", well if that's the case, then obey the f**cking laws like the rest of us. Ok, I think I'll stop here now so I don't offend any of my friends around here. Sorry for any offense taken by our friends here. This rant was directed toward those spandex wearing yuppie douche bags that ride on my street.

[GreyBear]

Thing is they do have to obey the laws and ride right.....however the priority of enforcment is awfully low. Because usually when they crash and burn they hurt themselves, And most cops are embarrassed to haul em in...sad but true.....and I know a lot of bike riders that are great guys, but a&^holes will throw a leg over ANYTHING and give others a bad name....

Ride Free.....

[chucktx]

ya ever go by one or so and have a fiberglass fishing rod blank and tap em on the ass at about 50??????? gets there attention real fast...............so i have heard........

[cowboy]

So you heard uh , & like above they do have law's covering these pedel pusher's , but the cop's just don't waste there time stopping them , I live out in the county & we get them by the hundreds out here , & some even stop at the stop sign

[troby53]

Here in my part of the world mountain biking is a huge recreational activity. I like to do it myself. Since I live in a tiny town I can even ride on the city streets with a fair degree of safety.

But like anything on two wheels you've got to operate it with some common sense. I know exactly how big I am..and how vulnerable I can be...Hell, I yield to squirrels...

I've seen some of those arrogant bicyclists on the roads around here. They're easy to spot because a good portion of them have emergency vehicles around them with flashing red lights.

Reckon the arrogant ones tend to decrease their own numbers...

Troby53

[skull2007]

sounds like about every group out there. always that two percent making the 98% look bad. that 2% tends to get so much attention because they are always f-ing up, its all they know how to do. seems to never change no matter where you are or go.

[Clem]

Yea skull, good answer. Like: "if you don't like the people around here, you ain't going to like them where you're going either".

I like people, just hard to separate out the arsholes most of the time...they're everywhere!

[GreyBear]

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I like people, just hard to separate out the arsholes most of the time...they're everywhere![/quote]


My defan Uncle, who raised me, gave me some serious wisdom way back...He siad, Son ther jes be two kinds of people in da world. Good guys and A*&holes. Your job in life is to figure which you be dealin wit and treat em accordinly". He said that a lot. It got imprinted on my brain cells so much even the 60's and 70's couldn't burn it away and when it's all said and done....thats the secret to life.

Ride Free......

[Texas Road Glide]

i have 2 reponse's
first, the reason i make love on my back, is because i am always fuc$%# up!!!!

second, i am living proof that there were good drugs in the 70's......