I'm that bicyclist...

Actually, no. I'm a fairly serious cyclist, but I'm just as pissed off by riders who do all that stuff. How are we (cyclists) supposed to expect any credibility on the street with all those riders doingthat stupid stuff.

Bicyclists actually led the lobbying effort to get good roads in the first place. In 1880 there weren't many cars, but bycyclists became a political power to get improved roads. So we really DO own the road...

 

I think cyclists are ok when they obey the same traffic laws as a motor vehicle, ride with the flow of traffic, if you are slower than traffic then move to the right, if you are on wheels (skateboards included) then red means stop.... We're having some issues as of late down in missoula (a bit south of us) since there are so many cyclists that fail to obey traffic signs there have been a number of deaths in the past year...

As for wildlife, I hate them, I've already hit more than my fair share of deer, I wound up in the ditch avoiding one.... During the winter is the worst because if you spike the brakes to try and stop the roads are so slick there is no telling what's going to happen...

 

ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Jon, I love Mississippi, but Bali Hai?
Academic: Mississippi is beautiful land, but is also home
to the economically poorest community in the USA. It's called Sugar Ditch. No one there has EVER been employed. I'm not joking-they are all descended from freed slaves who live on the land their families were granded upon release, collecting government welfare only. There are no employers at all anywhere near there. It's really quite sad.

 

America - land of obscene wealth and abject poverty. Sad doesn't even come close does it.

 

i almost hit a deer nearly weekly up here in wisconsin. there everywhere, especially since i live right next to a forest.

and yes, white van drivers are crazy.

american media is so censored its not even funny.
like the report they must have "missed" about the govt kidnapping a german citizen, torturing and waterboarding him asking for information on terrorist plots, then realizing it was a case of mistaken identity. the supreme court refused to hear his case, and he hasnt even gotten a trial. they cited "national security" as a reason not to hear it. he was reported missing in germany for 6 months before he was returned to his family (wife and kids). turns my stomach.
i get all my news from BBC online after reading that story.

i biked for a long time before i got a car, and i know how hard it is to get around on the roads without a car. dont hate the cyclists.

 

Academic, could you pleasepost your thoughts (if you have any[&:]) on "squatter's rights" in the "landlord kept deposit"(sic) thread? I can't remember exactly, but I somehow have heard a UKer using "the squat" in conversation. As in "I was walking to the squat when I ran across the local hooker..."
Aren't "squats" abandoned buildings lived in by homeless?
I took it to mean the landlord wasn't allowed to toss out the squatters, and the law protected the trespassers, not the landlord. Please fill me in.

The Florida Keys portion of US Hwy. 1 has had 18 deaths so far this year (!), 3 of which were on bicycles. The bikers were riding (well within their rights) on a heavily trafficed 2 lane highway. You can't fix stupid.

On said highway, the users that burn me most are the truck and boat combos. I have seen some really funny s--t when it comes to boat trailering. The best is when a customer will call for directions from a part of this small town that a truck/boattrailer has NO where to go. Customer:"I was trying to turn around down here on Duval street and now I'm hung on a parking meter and a street sign. The fire department is gonna cut the trailer off the meter and that should free it. Where's y'all's ramp?" Me:" We don't have a ramp. I told you 3 months ago."
Then he will call back to tell me he's getting cuffed for failing a breathylizer...

Speaking of which- drunken staggering tourists arePublic Enemy #1 of Other Road Users. Ususally someone wearing black socks pulled up tight out of theirBirkenstocks and speaking french or german whilst staring up at oblivion.

Nafango2-BRUSHGUARDS!LOL!Put a deer pusher on your car...and take the victims to the processor! The arctic air of Wisconsin keeps the meatfresh. Mmmmm venison stroganoff with extra cheese mmmmmm.Pass me a LaBatts!

 

haha too bad they just bounce up and go through the windshield on most cars. Deer are big!

 

Yeah, I know-I'm from Tennessee. Big deer there too.
You might need some sort of exterior roll-cage mod with barbs to keep the deer on the hood. Fried Curds Rock!

 

Deer and drunk bums are the only things I have to worry about hitting.... I live in a really small town and somehow almost hit a drunk, staggering guy almost every week. I love the look on their face when you lay on the horn and scare the heck out ofem as you dodge them.... Priceless

 

damn, we dont get that many drunk people in my part of town.

once or twice a year ill see someone smoking a bowl in their car... (not joking) but i dont run into a lot of drunk people.

which is wierd, because wisconsin has the most drunk driving arrests/accidents, highest per capita number of bars, and highest number avg amount of liquor consumed/person of any other state...