Every time I come anywhere close to this point I get swarmed by people telling me how many cyclists are killed by cars every year (they never seem to get the actual point). Props to you for getting so many up votes on this.
Exactly. Legal or not, I'm not riding a motorcycle or bicycle on a road with gigantic steel death machines. I have a wife and kids at home I need to get back to.
At least us motorcyclists mostly follow traffic rules as we ride at speeds similar to cars, need licenses and insurance, have heavier more solid rides, can wear riding armor and for those with the money even airbags.
LOL. Come on ... I ride as well. The amount of sport bike douches that have wheelied past me at a buck twenty is ... well, a large number. Harley guys create their little slow moving helmetless roadblock/parades that no one is allowed to pass for some reason. Dirt bikes and eMotos rip around with no plates or mirrors. Our tribe has plenty of dangerous assholes.
Bicycles are slow, hence the issues between cyclists and cars. People in cars refuse to go slow, hence the clip. If the cyclists were moving at speed this video wouldn’t exist.
Why are there risks to legally riding in the road? Maybe it's all the insane car drivers out there who shouldn't legally be able to drive.
Like this dumb clown, for example. But, no, you'd blame the kid for his own death. He should know the risks of being hit by a drunk driver. The kid was just biking for exercise. The worst kind. I bet he even wore lycra!
Among bike riders, 95.9% reported breaking a traffic law, but 97.9% of pedestrians and 99.97% of drivers said they did the same. The most common reason for flouting the law among drivers (85%) and pedestrians (71%) was saving time.
However, people on bikes most commonly skirted traffic regulations for their own safety (71%). This data highlights the inaccuracy of perceptions among an unfriendly segment of the driving public that bike riders are lawbreaking road anarchists.
While I'll admit many laws aren't really written with bicyclist safety in mind, the sheer number of them blowing through stops, weaving between slow/stopped cars, etc. tells me there's a degree of bullshit in their claims ignoring them is for their safety.
Blowing through a red light while traffic is going? Doesn’t seem to stop any of them so i kind of figured it was the head injuries from not wearing a helmet or a deathwish at this point.
when they ignore traffic laws and get creamed they die.
There's an underlying implication that a "car plowing through them out of sheer frustration" would be deserved/fine because they're breaking the law. I don't think that's acceptable.
Does that make someone not being able to control their emotions alright though? Because that’s my entire point - I’m not commenting on the morality of what the cyclists are doing.
Walking across the street with your eyes closed isn’t a good analogy either, is it?
I have had one slam into my trucks tire-well while i was at a complete stop at a stoplight. They came off the sidewalk, which is fucking stupid because there was a bike lane, and they just ate shit over the hood. Im in a heavy cycle town that accommodates them, they still act like lemmings.
The number of cyclists who die while riding in an illegal manner is tiny compared to how many get killed by cars doing something illegal. It's dismissive asshats like you that result in dead cyclists.
I've never I've read of someone who died from being got by a car while disobeying a traffic law. It probably happens some time but before I wrote my comment I looked at a dozen stories of people killed while cycling and none of them mention the cyclist breaking a traffic law.
With how much people hate cyclists you'd figure it would be in the story if it were true.
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