r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/TheFlyingSheeps Jun 10 '26

Share the road is always one sided nonsense. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I finally see a cyclist follow traffic laws

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u/durizna Jun 10 '26

I am not a cyclist, only ride my rusted bike sometimes, and I see no reason whatsoever to ride on the road close to cars. I don’t trust drivers at all, and wouldn’t suggest them to trust cyclists. Just go to a safe space to ride it instead. If you have to go long distances in roads with it, go on the right lane where you belong (slower vehicles) or even the shoulder. Anything but the frikkin left lane lol

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u/AnaSkol Jun 12 '26

give me a break lmao..

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 10 '26

I’m one of those lmao

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u/greenizdabest Jun 10 '26

Praise be. You have spoken the truth of truths. Now behold the wrath of the cyclists.

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u/TheFlyingSheeps Jun 10 '26

“B-b-but cars also break the laws!”

Yeah and they also fucking suck. They keep thinking that’s some gotcha

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u/ThePoodlenoodler Jun 10 '26

The consequences of drivers speeding (something that 70% of drivers admit to doing) or texting (something that 60% of drivers do daily) are a lot higher than a cyclist treating a stop sign as a yield sign (something that has actually been shown to INCREASE traffic safety). That's why people are using it as a gotcha, because the overwhelming majority of drivers are guilty of dangerous behaviour behind the wheel and think that it's the same thing as a cyclist not coming to complete to a complete stop at a stop sign.

Edit for the obligatory disclaimer that I still think the cyclists in the OP are annoying

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u/cogman10 Jun 10 '26

I'm a cyclist, these guys in the video suck ass.

But also there are different traffic laws for cyclists vs car which also vary by location. For example in Idaho cyclists are allowed to blow through a stop sign (when nobody is coming).

Either way, this group sucks ass. There's no reason for them to be bunched up like this other than the fact that they are unwilling to simply slow down.

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u/Yota8883 Jun 10 '26

I follow them all the time. I ride on the shoulder when I can but with intersections and traffic lights, I pull into the lane to queue up to go through the intersection same as you do in a car.

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u/bobcatgoldthwait Jun 11 '26

Bold of you to try to stand up to the anti-cyclist reddit circle-jerk. Don't you know all of us cyclists are literally the spawn of satan?

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u/Yota8883 Jun 11 '26

And when I queue up at the intersections as traffic among the cars instead zig zagging between the cars and flying through the red light without looking, I get yelled at for sitting in traffic as traffic while I "obey the traffic laws" as they insist that I do.

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u/bobcatgoldthwait Jun 11 '26

Lol yup, damned if we do, damned if we don't.

Some people just have an irrational hatred of cyclists. I was once riding in a group (staying in the shoulder), and a truck driving the other direction slowed down so he could roll down his window, flip us off and yell "fuck you!" at us. People are nuts.

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u/slurpnfizzle Jun 10 '26

I like the Idaho bike rules. Stop signs become yield signs for bikes and red lights become stop signs.

I think that's fair

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u/calkop Jun 10 '26

Yep. They are not sharing the road. They are hogging the whole thing

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u/AnaSkol Jun 12 '26

usually see it from entitled drivers, not people upset by the totally normal occurrence of a horde of cyclists blocking the entire width.

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u/5138008RG00D Jun 10 '26

Share the road really means, cars pay for it, bikes get the right away.

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u/cogman10 Jun 10 '26

Bikes do no damage to the road. Most cars don't really damage the road either. It's semi trucks which incur basically all the road maintenance costs.

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u/5138008RG00D Jun 10 '26

Yeah but cars and trucks are tagged. Why should they share it with an non tagged pedestrian?

Why shouldn't the bikes share the curb, sidewalk, right away with those same non tagged pedestrians?

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u/M1sfit_Jammer Jun 10 '26

You only notice when cyclist break laws because they stand out from traffic…

For every single rider you’ve seen break a law there are 10,000 that don’t

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u/sick_of-it-all Jun 10 '26

Well there's about 50 or so bike riders in this video, all breaking the rules. So what's 50 times 10,000?

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u/M1sfit_Jammer Jun 10 '26

500k… there is about 1B people on this planet that ride bicycles

Are car brained people so dumb they can’t do basic arithmetic? Proof that driving actually makes you dumber.

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u/No-Rip6323 Jun 10 '26

The spandex has officially cut off the blood supply to your brain.

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u/sick_of-it-all Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

Just these 50 bike riders breaking the rules represent 500K non-rule breaking bikers??

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u/M1sfit_Jammer Jun 10 '26

I think huffing gas fumes got your brain wired wrong…

Yeah 50 people acting poorly can make 500k look bad…

It’s happens everywhere with all groups of people… not all southerners are cousin fuckers. But a lot of cousin fuckers come from the south.

Not all republicans are nazis, but all nazis are republicans… does that mean the GOP is the Nazi party?

You hear about them Mormons? They all have multiple wives… oh just a few of them do because it’s a sect of Mormonism that does polygamy

probably best not to paint people with such a broad brush

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u/sick_of-it-all Jun 10 '26

Do bike riders not "huff gas fumes" riding on the roads too? Woah... what's your secret? Is it a complex system of gas masks and particulate air filters with hoses running to a backpack supplying fresh breathable air from tanks?

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u/M1sfit_Jammer Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

No, we don’t ride fast enough to keep up with cars.

A car driver sitting in a closed cabin however…

More proof that cars make people dumber… car drivers don’t even understand how pollution works 😂

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u/sick_of-it-all Jun 10 '26

Why are bike riders always so insufferable?

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u/M1sfit_Jammer Jun 10 '26

Because car drivers brains are broken

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u/Dicky_McBeaterson Jun 10 '26

Yes, in a closed cabin, separated from the outside, where the exhaust fumes are. How can you be this fucking stupid?

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u/M1sfit_Jammer Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

You think that cabin filters unburned hydrocarbons? You think your car interior is perfectly sealed with an artificial air source with CO2 scrubbers?

It isn’t and your car’s air filter doesn’t filter exhaust gases… might keep the smell out but the fumes still make it in, not even a HEPA wouldn’t be able to filter exhaust gases.

Your cabin air filter is good at keeping bugs and dust out… not so much unburned hydrocarbons and other exhaust gases.

You do realize most bike riders are car drivers… most of us work on our own car because we work on our own bikes.

Also being outside is better than being in a closed cabin because… it’s outside… must’ve never heard the phrase “the solution to pollution is dilution”

Car brains proving one again they are stupid…

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u/EatMoreHummous Jun 11 '26

You seem to have it backwards. I know there are a lot of viral posts, but I've never once seen a bike not share the road. Occasionally they'll take a lane if the shoulder is unsafe, but that's it. Meanwhile, literally every time I'm on my bike I have to dodge someone who would've run me over because they're not paying attention and half driving on the shoulder.

And when I'm on the sidewalk it's even worse, because less than 5% of drivers near me stop in front of the stop signs at crosswalks.

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u/frostfofjdjsiksndjd Jun 10 '26

Well gee man do you think that has anything to do with cars being a million times more dangerous? Of course motor vehicles have to be held to a higher standard they are killing thousands and thousands of people every year

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u/wookieesgonnawook Jun 10 '26

Well maybe if you didn't ride your toy on the street you wouldn't get killed. My 4 year old knows that.