Is anyone else tired of having to move over and yield to fu...ing bi-cyclers?
They don't pay any road tax,
no liability insurance,
no vehicle inspection,
no lights or turn signals,
they don't observe any driving laws and more often than not they ride two or three abreast while holding up traffic and a licensed vehicle is suppose to yield to them!
What's wrong with this picture???????
I say screw them!!!!
I'm going to start egging them on sight.

Get a flit gun and spray them with water as you go by.

George

Sound advice George!

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Originally posted by GeorgeS:
Get a flit gun and spray them with water as you go by.

George

That'll get you an assault charge in most places - hardly good for one's future hunting prospects.

Can I through my spit cup at them?

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Originally posted by Oddbod:

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Originally posted by GeorgeS:
Get a flit gun and spray them with water as you go by.

George

That'll get you an assault charge in most places - hardly good for one's future hunting prospects.

Only in places that are burned and looted.

Hey Griz, I like your idea the best yet!

George.....

Heaven, my version....

Where the cooks are Argentine asadors, the wine is a Malbec, the food is meat, the women are Italian, motorcycle gas is free, no CCW permit required, and the single action revolver is king.....

I will keep in touch with you....SCI this coming January is in Vegas, perhaps we could meet for
dinner one night.

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Originally posted by griz78:
Can I through my spit cup at them?

Not on purpose-



and you also cant open your door when they are riding between rows of traffic--

SSR

That sounds good, Bill.

George

You must be a bunch of fat commie bastards that are jelious of people that are fit and sticking it to the oil companies. Get out of your cages and enjoy life while you can.

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Originally posted by Gary Surko:
You must be a bunch of fat commie bastards that are jelious of people that are fit and sticking it to the oil companies. Get out of your cages and enjoy life while you can.

Actually no.
I am a slender semi-fit tax payer who is sick of forced payment and servitude (taxes/insurance) for someone elses pleasures. (I.E. socialistic society) Once these F..ing bicyclers start paying for their right to use the asphalt that "we" licensed, insured, taxed, street legal-law observing vehicles are paying for then I will subside in my hatred for these parasites.
But until then I will engoy life by thinking of engaging in the fore-mentioned activities with them every chance I get.

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Originally posted by Rae59:

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Originally posted by Oddbod:

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Originally posted by GeorgeS:
Get a flit gun and spray them with water as you go by.

George

That'll get you an assault charge in most places - hardly good for one's future hunting prospects.

Only in places that are burned and looted.

Hey Griz, I like your idea the best yet!

Los Angeles then, or Miami, Oakland, Cincinnati, Brooklyn............

Oddbod,
My point EXACTLY!
BTW you left out Detroit and Chicago.
None in Texas, Arizona, the south other than Miami, etc.

Well Sir, you probably need to stay out of a good portion of Colorado, they are damn serious about bikers having the right of way in a bunch of places up there.

Well sir,
I've been to Colorado many times. As a matter of fact I was there just a month and half ago.

In case you haven't noticed every state in the union is "veeery serious about bikers". Please notice in the future the diamond shaped bicycle signs posted along rural routes and in metro areas. It is not state thing it is a FED thing! If you want FED $$$$ you will post these signs.

I feel the same , no licenses or taxes stay out of My Way!!! I have had the pleasure more then once to scare the crap out of them blowing by them with sets of 80,000lb doubles ( quite intimidating) .

Then you'll enjoy this video.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...D2xk&feature=related

I am absolutely sick of cycle-douches, and I'll add a couple of new complaints to the list.

-My tax money pays for all of the HUNDREDS of miles of bike paths in this state. Ride on the bike paths.

-Most bicyclers must be mentally retarded. They ride on two lane county roads in farm country. Around my home that means lots of blind hills and corners. Math/physics question-when a grain truck with fifteen tons of corn on it is going 55mph east and an F-150 is going 55mph west and the two meet a cyclist over the rise on a blind hill who gets killed? There isn't room for two vehicles and a bicycle.

Here's a hint, I can go home and chisel the bicycle out of my fender well with a screwdriver.

Ditto there brothers!
Same thing down here in the farm country.
Nice vid. a little harsh but veeery effective.
Wonder if we can get the have-not underclass to loot and burn the bi-cycle shops like they did in London?

I actually LIKE to see lots of people using bicycles, trains, feet & buses to get around - it leaves more road space for those of us who prefer travelling in comfort.

I commute in my car to Paris every working day and there are a lot of motorcycles. Here there is a good relationship between bikers and automobiles. If you move over just slightly to allow just a little more room for lane splitting, the bikers acknowlege and give thanks by giving you a thumbs up as they pass, or when their hands are occupied they will stick out a foot in acknowlegement. Their happy when they know you've seen them.

If you've every used a motorcycle for your primary transport, you'll have no problem with polite bikers.

This ain't about motorcycles. They are licensed, insured, and legal. In other words they've paid their dues.
This is about bi-cyclers. Un-licensed,
un-insured, un-legal, un-caring about taking up road space that others are paying for. They enjoy being obstructionist. A bunch of Lance Armstrong wanna-bes.
It is Socialism.....have others pay for their snarrling up of a productive society.

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
I actually LIKE to see lots of people using bicycles, trains, feet & buses to get around - it leaves more road space for those of us who prefer travelling in comfort.

You mean like in India, China?
Of all the pictures I've seen they are still on the roadways. Just without vehicles.

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Originally posted by Rae59:

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Originally posted by Oddbod:
I actually LIKE to see lots of people using bicycles, trains, feet & buses to get around - it leaves more road space for those of us who prefer travelling in comfort.

You mean like in India, China?
Of all the pictures I've seen they are still on the roadways. Just without vehicles.

That rather proves my point: Imagine those same Indian & Chinese roads if even half of the cyclists changed to driving cars - total gridlock.

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Originally posted by Rae59:
This ain't about motorcycles. They are licensed, insured, and legal. In other words they've paid their dues.
This is about bi-cyclers. Un-licensed,
un-insured, un-legal, un-caring about taking up road space that others are paying for. They enjoy being obstructionist. A bunch of Lance Armstrong wanna-bes.
It is Socialism.....have others pay for their snarrling up of a productive society.

And so down we go down the road to Big Brotherhood. Instead of being upset they do not spend the same amount of taxes, why not wonder if you are paying TOO MUCH taxes for what is considered a "privilege" and yet our society at this point is structured to where you cannot exist as a productive person unless you own some sort of motorized transportation. Same thing for insurance, mandatory insurance was passed so some drunk doesn't run into a bus load of nuns and make MY personal insurance rates go up. A good idea but how much did your rates go down when the law was passed? If you are like me it didn't go down at all, but it does open the door now where I can get stopped and have to PROVE that I have it, if I don't my car can get towed even if I do have it but just can't find that damn piece of paper. Mind you this is not about not having insurance, but being able to PROVE that I have it- in other words it is assumed that I am guilty unless I can prove that I am innocent. And what for, other than a private company can make sure I am paying my premiums?

So while bicyclists can be jerks, I can deal with an individual taking up some road space and if it costs me an extra 20 seconds it is much preferable to do than begging the gov't to make even more laws and regulations.

Oh yeah, another thing about mandatory insurance is that if you lose your job and eventually lose your house, kiss your car goodbye too since there is no way for you to renew insurance with no address so now you are jobless, homeless and no transportation or place to live in until you find another job. Sorry but I do not think this makes the US a stronger country, we already have the largest prison population in the world.

Now if the laws were changed to where if someone was being an asshat and got bitchslapped by someone else and it wasn't a felony with mandatory prison time I might go for something like that. Maybe call it the "Justifyable bitchslap amendment" or something but just because I get shafted on vehicle use taxes doesn't mean that I'd want to wish that on everyone else too.

Regards,

Mark

Maritime law should apply. The biggest boat has right of way.

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Originally posted by Mark:
And so down we go down the road to Big Brotherhood...............................

So while bicyclists can be jerks, I can deal with an individual taking up some road space and if it costs me an extra 20 seconds it is much preferable to do than begging the gov't to make even more laws and regulations.

Mark

Golly geez Mark, could you possibly be a "biker"?

I NEVER said one thing about "any" more laws. (If anything I want them repealed). All I said was: "I want to EGG the fu....ing. scum OR have them follow the "EXISTING LAWS" as everyone else does". (Also I wouldn't mind seeing them fall face first on the asphalt, by their own doing of course).

By the way, IF I were in control, we would have the SMALLEST prison system in the world.
There would be "only 10 prison cells". As each "new prisoner comes in, he/she goes to cell #10 and cell #1 gets a bullet, lethal injection, rope, or drug behing a bi-cylce until dead - I REALLY don't care how they end up in hell.

So you see, both YOU and I want a smaller prison system, but back to the subject, bi-cyclers should follow the same rules as EVERONE ELSE!

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Originally posted by Swamp_Fox:
Maritime law should apply. The biggest boat has right of way.

Yes Sir!

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Originally posted by Rae59:

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Originally posted by Mark:
And so down we go down the road to Big Brotherhood...............................

So while bicyclists can be jerks, I can deal with an individual taking up some road space and if it costs me an extra 20 seconds it is much preferable to do than begging the gov't to make even more laws and regulations.

Mark

Golly geez Mark, could you possibly be a "biker"?

I NEVER said one thing about "any" more laws. (If anything I want them repealed). All I said was: "I want to EGG the fu....ing. scum OR have them follow the "EXISTING LAWS" as everyone else does". (Also I wouldn't mind seeing them fall face first on the asphalt, by their own doing of course).

By the way, IF I were in control, we would have the SMALLEST prison system in the world.
There would be "only 10 prison cells". As each "new prisoner comes in, he/she goes to cell #10 and cell #1 gets a bullet, lethal injection, rope, or drug behing a bi-cylce until dead - I REALLY don't care how they end up in hell.

So you see, both YOU and I want a smaller prison system, but back to the subject, bi-cyclers should follow the same rules as EVERONE ELSE!

Not a biker at all, for the record I haven't even been on a bike for several years.

So no, I am not a biker. But if we want to call each other names, I could say that you sound pretty much like a lobbyist, regardless of what you actually claim to be. I mean c'mon, you say you don't want more laws but look at what you had actually written:

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Originally posted by Rae59:
Is anyone else tired of having to move over and yield to fu...ing bi-cyclers?
They don't pay any road tax,
no liability insurance,
no vehicle inspection,
no lights or turn signals,
they don't observe any driving laws and more often than not they ride two or three abreast while holding up traffic and a licensed vehicle is suppose to yield to them!
What's wrong with this picture???????
I say screw them!!!!
I'm going to start egging them on sight.

They don't pay any road tax (What is the only way we can fix this? I know- make a new law...)
no liability insurance (What is the only way we can fix this? I know- make a new law...)
no lights or turn signals (What is the only way we can fix this? I know- make a new law...)

And then at the end you state they don't obey the laws anyway.

The way it appears to me, that instead of wanting new laws made you should read up on the bicycling laws in your state, and if you are behind a group of them that are not obeying the law then you should get on your cell phone and complain to the cops about it. If the cops don't do anything about it then start going to city council meetings and politely make the point that existing laws need to be enforced, not say there need to be a bunch of new restrictions to be put on American citizens because we don't have enough yet.

Lots of cyclists here in rural southern Oregon. The serious ones are aware of traffic and pretty easy to deal with. It's the chuckleheads I don't like -- the ones that want to assert equal rights with vehicles when it suits them, then want the deference paid to pedestrians when it suits them, such as blowing through stop signs, riding at night without lights in dark clothing, etc..

It just so happens I was coming home from work this morning, on one of our hilly, curvy side roads. I came across mister I am a speed racer in the middle of the lane,laboring up the hill and my speedo wouldn't even register. I followed at the state minimum of a car length as he seen me and did not bother to yield to me. At the stop sign he stopped in the middle of the lane and glared back at me. I said hey bonehead would you mind yielding to faster moving traffic that pays for the use of this road and he did after it may had registered that he was an idiot! This is what pisses me off as they can't do the posted speed and I am going to get rear ended because of these idiots making the road unsafe. Try driving down the highway at 15mph in a car and see how fast you get cited. There is a place for vehicles and a place for bicycles and the roadway is not one for bikes.

Hmmmmm... let's see..... a broom handle jumps up off the pavement (possibly from a passing car's tire) and logdes itself in the front spokes of a bike which will inadvertently cause some premature front wheel braking.

That couldn't possibly be assault.
Qualified legal opinions please.

On a more serious note; what if a f....ing biker causes a accident, how would one go about sueing the bastard. No license plate probably no I.D. tucked away in their speedo suit. Guess one would have to hold them there at gun point til the law dogs showed? Probably a camera would be useful.

How about skateboarders?

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Originally posted by boom stick:
How about skateboarders?

A 1"X2"X3' piece of lumber laying perpindicular to the skateboards wheels maybe. Or do you think something thicker and wider? Not much experience with them.

Don't think I've ever seen a skateboarder on the roads around here. It appears the kids have better sense when it comes to vehicles and roads than some adults do .

18 year old scooter rider killed via hit and run yesterday by a blue Ford pick up truck in Poplar Bluff Missouri.

I can safely say (and prove) that I have not been through Poplar Bluff in 8 years.

What bothers me the most about bicyclists is that it seems you have to dress like a complete fruit to ride a bike.

Yeeeaaah buddy. And they (cyclers) wear those dorky helmets.
I guess they are telling everyone they fall alot.

I ask that the moderators delete this thread. It seems to me that it is not an appropriate use of the website.

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Lots of cyclists here in rural southern Oregon. The serious ones are aware of traffic and pretty easy to deal with. It's the chuckleheads I don't like -- the ones that want to assert equal rights with vehicles when it suits them, then want the deference paid to pedestrians when it suits them, such as blowing through stop signs, riding at night without lights in dark clothing, etc..

Very well put!

As a lifelong cyclist and former professional racer and adventure rider, I can attest that these "activist" bikers DO NOT represent our group as a whole, for that matter, or in any respects.

At my peak, I was training upwards of 500 miles per week in the saddle and was ALWAYS obediant of laws and motorists rights. So was my club and team. The last thing we wanted was to have conflicts with the "primary" users of our roadways.

As for the taxes, etc, we do pay them as nearly all of us own automobiles! I for one have a Hummer H-1, Multiple SUVs and Pick-ups and commercial vehicles for my businesses...YES WE DO PAY ROAD TAXES!

Word to the wise - don't get too belligerent with cyclists as a whole...Our Bi-weekly rides out here consist of at least one Federal judge, several attorneys and doctors, ME, and various members of law enforcement and armed forces, moms, dads, etc...A general cross-section of the population...

As always, it's some small "fringe" group that ruins it for the rest of us!

JW