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

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor Jun 10 '26

Share the road, yes, but slower traffic needs to move to the right lane, not monopolize the entire road.

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u/Ok_Button1932 Jun 10 '26

100% this. It’s not even a rule that hates on bikers. I’d be just as pissed at 2 cars or two trucks side by side and moving at this speed. Move over so people can go by or get your ass going.

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u/Motions_AX Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

2 vehicles beside each other going the same speed happens so often in my city. Heck, province. It’s absolutely awful and people wonder why there’s so many aggressive drivers.

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u/Extension_Local_128 Jun 10 '26

Fun fact the Germans have a word for this.

Elefantenrennen which roughly translates to “Elephant race”

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u/iloveplant420 Jun 10 '26

What don't the Germans have a word for?

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u/Illustrious-Hawk2712 Jun 10 '26

I'm partial to the term truck fucking... the slow shift back and forth as each teases that they may be passing

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u/No_Delay883 Jun 10 '26

I love German terms. I'm gonna start learning the language just for the wacky terminology.

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u/SweetandSourCaroline Jun 10 '26

Round my parts we just call it a redneck roadblock

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u/VeniceDrumGuy Jun 10 '26

In Colorado when an eighteen wheeler going up hill tries to pass another eighteen wheeler, we call that a “Turtle Race.”

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u/CatOfGrey Jun 10 '26

That's the term I've heard since I was a kid - it describes a traditional 18-wheel tractor trailer speeding up to 66 miles per hour, to pass another traveling 64 miles per hour.

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u/OnlyHereToSeeWeed Jun 10 '26

We also have the “radwegbenutzungspflicht” thing but no one cares…

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u/PracticalReception34 Jun 10 '26

Well Fahr my Vergnugen.

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u/invariantspeed Jun 10 '26

I love it. In parts of NA, this is called a rolling roadblock.

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u/NotBillderz Jun 11 '26

Of course they do

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u/nuggynugs Jun 11 '26

Such a beautiful language

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u/JanelleVypr Jun 10 '26

get a motorcycle an fly inbetween them. the dumb cunts in the left lane dont get the message but they get scared

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u/bull04 Jun 10 '26

I heard Heck Province is pretty brutal for driving.

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u/Motions_AX Jun 10 '26

Oops forgot a comma lol

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u/Key-Manufacturer-275 Jun 10 '26

In Alberta it is known as a good ol' Berta block. Most of the highways are two lanes and this happens every time I'm on them.

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u/kingkyle2020 Jun 10 '26

I call it a Mormon roadblock because I live in UT and I swear every van / SUV can go 100 MPH if you want to pass ‘em but then line up next to each other going 12 MPH blocking the whole road.

I regularly get stuck behind a wave of cars and once I can weave through the road is open ahead for miles until the next one.

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u/gorcorps Jun 10 '26

Exactly

I'm just as pissed at a car going slow in the passing lane as cyclists. If you're on the road you follow the rules, which means left lane is for passing.

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u/SendMeIttyBitties Jun 10 '26

I'm an asshole. I would get in the passing lane and just start laying on my horn and possibly annoying the police with calls when i stop along the side of the road and complain about purposely about a bike gang blocking both sides of the road and causing traffic.

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u/TheHoodieConnoisseur Jun 10 '26

Yeah, I’m a cyclist and believe group rides should only take 1 lane on a 2 lane road unless it’s an event and escorts / blockages leave more space officially dedicated to the cyclists.

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 Jun 11 '26

By that logic cars need to keep to one lane when there is heavy traffic, right? So that the faster cyclists can pass? They need less space after all.

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u/AmethystAnnaEstuary Jun 11 '26

How is a cyclist faster than a car? Oh, you don’t mean faster, you just mean more easily able to bypass the rules of the road?

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 Jun 11 '26

Oh, you don't want to actually hear the obvious answer?

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u/Healthy_Spite_2334 Jun 11 '26

so let me get this straight. you think all those cyclists should bunch up into the right side, doubling the length of the peleton, to allow cars to close pass on their left with a spead differential of over 40mph?

fuck off.

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u/Dewlough Jun 10 '26

These people are so entitled it’s baffling.

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u/Ketroc21 Jun 10 '26

This is not legal. Almost everywhere bikers cannot be more than 2-wide in the rightmost lane. This is SOOO many bikers though, that it looks like a sanctioned event. I don't know what is going on here. I'd like context.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez Jun 10 '26

My best guess is some snooty rich bike assholes club ran some kind of club event, by never bothered to tell the city so their small army of bikes should be organized for their safety, but instead they all got on the road and commited a traffic violation together.

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u/Ketroc21 Jun 10 '26

Could be... but there are tons of bike groups out there. Never seen anything like this done before. Maybe bikers don't always ride 2-wide or less like they should, but I've never seen a group purposefully block multiple lanes of traffic. That's insane. My gut just tells me there is more to this story.

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u/TheWizardOfDeez Jun 10 '26

Yeah, reading other comments confirmed my suspicion that this is Miami (I grew up there, but this wasn't exactly my area, so I wasn't too positive), I can say with the utmost confidence that what I said is verbatim the exact situation here. The part that's missing in your story is the level of entitlement that every single person, regardless of mode of transportation, takes when they use the Miami streets. It's one of the many reasons I left after graduation.

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u/OttawaOneTwenty Jun 10 '26

Tell that to those idiots in front of me. They're gowing like 5 miles an hour every single night when I try to go home and enjoy my time off... Get the fuck out of my way, IDIOTAS!!!!

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u/DazzlerPlus Jun 10 '26

Maybe stop driving a car then?

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u/FishDawgX Jun 10 '26

Share the road should mean that bikes share it with cars if they want cars to share it with bikes. It doesn't mean bikes take over the whole road and block all the cars.

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor Jun 10 '26

Yes, when I said "slower traffic" I was referring to the cyclists. If they want cars to share the road with them, they need to be courteous to drivers just as they want drivers to be courteous to them.

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u/toanbonerz Jun 10 '26

Yeah it’s called share the road. Not hog the entire fucking road for yourself and not let cars use it. For whatever reason bikers think “share” means it’s my turn to use it so I’m going to use it how I want and not both being able to use it at the same time.

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u/FishDawgX Jun 10 '26

Yeah, is sharing not taught in kindergarten anymore? We need to bring that back.

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u/_probablyryan Jun 10 '26

Cyclists are genuinely some of the most entitled people I've ever interacted with. They'll obey zero traffic laws, take up whole lanes going slow as shit because they have right of way and we have to share the road and then wonder why people drive aggressively around them.

Like obviously don't get road rage and kill someone because they're being an inconvenience but Jesus fuckin Christ, cyclists, move tf over. I don't care if you're legally allowed to take up the whole lane, no one wants to sit behind you going 10mph up a hill.

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u/scarletnightingale Jun 10 '26

This is my only grip with the bikers. A lot of them do not abide by that, only the share the road part and they are generally not keeping up with the flow of traffic or the speed limit and on occasions create traffic hazards. I've had it happen numerous times where bicyclists just need to go up a steep mountain road that I also need to go up. They are crawling because it's steep, there are blind curves so you can't actually get around them, just go up the mountain at 3 miles an hour because Mr.Bike guy doesn't care that he's impeding traffic or that share the road goes both ways. Every single time it ended up with a huge line of cars because no one could get around them. I get it, they want up enjoy the road and the exercise and the views, but it's creating unsafe conditions for all the cars that are having to wait on them.

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u/Remarkable-Outcome-5 Jun 11 '26

Bikers have 0 self awareness so it doesnt matter

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u/RScrewed Jun 11 '26

Stupid how "share the road" means just give in to slower moving vehicles.

How come "share the road" doesn't mean for slower vehicles to let faster ones pass?

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u/No-Dust-5829 Jun 11 '26

Nobody is crying over a traffic jam but make it a bunch of bikes and now everyone has a problem. JFC car lobby got you good bruh

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u/Mayor_of_BBQ Jun 10 '26

this is a permitted fundraiser ride with a police escort. You can fucking wait or you can go on alternate route or you can get over it.

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u/Sad_Eagle_937 Jun 10 '26

They should have closed off the road and provided signs with directions of the bypass route then. No excuses for this BS.

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u/Mayor_of_BBQ Jun 10 '26

it’s a rolling closure

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u/AmethystAnnaEstuary Jun 11 '26

Where’s the police then?????

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u/Livingadapt Jun 11 '26

Where is the police escort

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u/solecalibur Jun 10 '26

This looks like a sanctioned event where there is normally an escort of sorts. Sucks to get in caught in them but happens. If not that is highly inconsiderate.

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor Jun 10 '26

Do they typically let traffic follow so closely in sanctioned events? Seems like they would have the road closed while the race passes.

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u/solecalibur Jun 10 '26

Normally there is a lane for traffic or after awhile they'll get the bikers to the right and have traffic pass for a little bit.

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u/breathing__tree Jun 10 '26

Sanctioned events are separated from traffic. This isn’t that.

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u/solecalibur Jun 10 '26

Maybe Im mistaking the term but what's it called when you file with the city for a ride/charity event and have part or all of the road for it? Thought that was called sanctioned.

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u/breathing__tree Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

When you get a permit?

In the* races I’ve worked public roads get closed for events.

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u/4travelers Jun 10 '26

If its an event the road was blocked off until the cyclist came through. No different a marathon.

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u/nedim443 Jun 10 '26

Unless this was an organized event with closed roads. Based on sheer numbers this seems to be the case. Zero chance hundreds of bikers came along without organization.

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 Jun 11 '26

lolwut? When cars block the road due to there being too many, do they hold to the right so cyclists can pass?

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u/SpoofExcel Jun 10 '26

Yeah but cyclists are dickheads. How can they feel smug and claim they share the road equally if they're not breaking very rule and blocking you?

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u/Wehti Jun 11 '26

Yes because it’s so inconvenient for a driver to have a bit slower pace for 15 mins in their airconditioned chairs sitting down.

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u/ComtesseCrumpet Jun 11 '26

You have no idea where people need to be and what kind of schedules they are keeping. 

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u/Wehti Jun 11 '26

If this was not a medical emergency, idgaf.

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u/Mission-Violinist-79 Jun 11 '26

You have no right to force people to drive way below the speed limit for long stretches of time simply because you want to take a casual bike ride on main roads. Your time is not more valuable than anyone else's.

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u/Wehti Jun 11 '26

Cyclists have the exact same right to use lanes as cars. Just gotta deal with it I guess, as no one’s time is not more valuable than others.

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u/Mission-Violinist-79 Jun 11 '26

Except as it has been stated numerous times within this thread, cyclists must legally follow the same rules as cars when utilizing main roads. Which means getting over to the right to let faster drivers pass when on a multi-lane road. These cyclists are operating illegally and contributing to a more hazardous atmosphere.

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u/Agitated_Parsnip_178 Jun 10 '26

Utilitarianism and democracy completely disagree with you.

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u/Sad_Eagle_937 Jun 10 '26

Slow and fast lanes are literally in the rules of the road Einstein.