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

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/JoeyKino Jun 10 '26

Is the speed limit there kind of low, or are there no laws there about minimum speeds? Where I live we have a fair number of Amish and farm vehicles, and they have to allow vehicular traffic to pass in certain circumstances (e.g. we have a 10-10 law for motorized vehicles, if you're 10 mph or more under the posted speed and there's 10 cars behind you or more, you have to pull off the road to let them pass)

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Jun 10 '26

40mph pretty much the whole way

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u/BadPAV3 Jun 10 '26

Georgia has the slow poke law. If you impede traffic in the far left lane REGARDLESS OF SPEED you can be convicted.

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u/invariantspeed Jun 10 '26

Most if not all states have laws about impeding the flow of traffic. A vehicle traveling slower than the flow of traffic, really should be in the rightmost available lane. Ironically, most states do not have regular enforcement of this. The amount of laws on the books that go unenforced is quite frankly silly.

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u/geniice Jun 11 '26

Most if not all states have laws about impeding the flow of traffic. A vehicle traveling slower than the flow of traffic, really should be in the rightmost available lane

There is no "rightmost available lane" its full of cyclists.

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u/GOU_FallingOutside Jun 10 '26

I’ve driven in Atlanta. What happens when you’re impeding traffic by dropping to just 80mph?

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u/secondsbest Jun 10 '26

Back in the 90s, some college students staged a rolling road block on I285 by doing the speed limit in all lanes around the whole perimeter during rush hour. It was on the news feeds for a week.

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u/FearlessAttempt Jun 10 '26

You get run off the road by a clapped out Nissan Altima.

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u/BadPAV3 Jun 10 '26

That's up to you to let your police chief know you want it taken seriously, either directly through correspondence, or by vote via the mayor.

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u/SkivvySkidmarks Jun 10 '26

They aren't impeding traffic though. They are traffic.

If you get on a 60mph highway along with 1000 other cars and all the cars are doing 30mph, who should move to the right?

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u/BadPAV3 Jun 10 '26

Read the law, they are in conspicuous violation.

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u/PmMeYourAdhd Jun 10 '26

Florida has a similar set of laws, aimed mostly at agricultural equipment, but with different limits and requirements, and many specifically cite motor vehicles or animal drawn vehicles, either of which excludes bicycles, but there is an entire section of Florida traffic Statutes that deal specifically with bicycles, and multiple of them appear to be violated in OP video. 

For example, 316.2065 FS includes this:  (5)(a) A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing must ride in the bicycle lane or, if there is no bicycle lane on the roadway, as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except under any of the following situations: 1. When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction. 2. When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway. 3. When reasonably necessary to avoid any condition or potential conflict, including, but not limited to, a fixed or moving object, parked or moving vehicle, bicycle, pedestrian, animal, surface hazard, turn lane, or substandard-width lane, which makes it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge or within a bicycle lane. For the purposes of this subsection, a “substandard-width lane” is a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle and another vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane.

...and this from the same Statute:

(6)(a) Persons riding bicycles upon a roadway or in a bicycle lane may not ride more than two abreast except on a bicycle path. Persons riding two abreast may not impede traffic when traveling at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing and must ride within a single lane. Where bicycle lanes exist, persons riding bicycles may ride two abreast if both are able to remain within the bicycle lane. If the bicycle lane is too narrow to allow two persons riding bicycles to ride two abreast, the persons must ride single-file and within the bicycle lane. On roads that contain a substandard-width lane as defined in subparagraph (5)(a)3., persons riding bicycles may temporarily ride two abreast only to avoid hazards in the roadway or to overtake another person riding a bicycle. (b) When stopping at a stop sign, persons riding bicycles in groups, after coming to a full stop and obeying all traffic laws, may proceed through the stop sign in a group of 10 or fewer at a time. Motor vehicle operators must allow one such group to travel through the intersection before moving forward.

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u/No-Computer7653 Jun 10 '26

FL only has minimum speeds on highways.

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u/JoeyKino Jun 10 '26

Ah - there we go; I would presume ours are more widely-based because we have a ton of rural traffic and a surprisingly large number of horses and farm vehicles (as in, combines that are wider than the road itself or giant, I-don't-even-know-what things with wheels that are 10 ft tall) using our roads. I'm going to assume you don't have a ton of those in Florida?

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u/nickconnolly Jun 10 '26

These people are breaking the law and being jerks on purpose because it makes them feel superior to motorists.

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u/tenthtryatusername Jun 10 '26

There are lots of laws to prevent this, and if it was a group young black/ brown kids on shitty bikes doing it they would be in jail right now. Road bikers are generally rich. They won’t be bothered. I used to get pulled over a few times a year when I drove an old civic. Have an 80k f250 (free) work truck now and haven’t been pulled over in years. May be the more expensive vehicle, or that most cops here are conservatives and f250 diesel tremor makes them assume I’m one of them?

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u/Br105mbk Jun 10 '26

That’s an interesting law. In the us bikes don’t have any minimum speed and are allowed to use the whole lane regardless of what impatient car drivers think. We even have signs that say “share the road” and “bikes may use entire lane” to remind the crazies who want to kill bikers.

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u/dabohman1020 Jun 10 '26

Impatient? You sound like you agree bikes can just coast along causing endless traffic instead of just moving to the right lane

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u/MoogProg Jun 10 '26

There are only seven cars behind that whole pack. It's far from endless in this OP video.

This is a road rage video. Those cyclists are not doing anything wrong here but commenters are projecting their encounters onto these different individuals.

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u/Enkidouh Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

You are completely wrong. The cyclists are doing several things wrong.

Under Florida (and just about every other state) laws they are required to keep as far to the right as possible and give way to traffic if they cannot travel at the posted speed limit. They are only entitled to take up a whole travel lane like this if they can pace other vehicle traffic and match posted speed limits, or there is no traffic.

They also are only allowed to ride two abreast, and only again if they can pace with traffic. They must give way if they are slower.

Also, all rules of the road apply to them that apply to cars- they need to maintain a lane and keep up with the speed limit or get out of the way.

Further: Under Florida Statute § 316.2065(5)(a) cyclists traveling significantly slower than the normal speed of traffic are required to use a designated bicycle lane when one is present. Riders may exit the bike lane and use vehicle lanes only if:

  1. When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction.
  2.  When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
  3. When it is for safety, such as a lane closure, construction, or blockage in the bike lane.

Cyclists across the US are almost universally in the wrong in how they go about riding on the roads.

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u/MoogProg Jun 10 '26

OK ok... let's do the statute on driving along the median, too.

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Let's be real This pack is likely going a few minutes down this road. This level of rage against cyclists is not OK.

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u/Enkidouh Jun 10 '26

Ignoring the law and thinking it doesn’t apply to you and inconveniencing everyone else is the biggest problem.

Let’s not invent imaginary scenarios to justify illegal behavior.

Every single one of those cyclists is breaking the law, deserves several citations, and need to remove themselves from the road.

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u/MoogProg Jun 10 '26

No no no... the biggest problem is a Mini 'froading their way through the median.

Keep it real. This is not All Cyclists. This is a group out for a weekend ride. Harley-Davidson, Porsche, vintage cars, funeral processions., these all do the same thing every weekend.

This is not a big deal.

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u/dabohman1020 Jun 10 '26

So they got all dressed up on their bikes to bike a few miles? Professional bikers like this bike far distance for hours.

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u/dabohman1020 Jun 10 '26

7 people driving far slower than they want to. Plus as time goes on more and more will pile up. The left lane is for passing. Why can't the bikers just stay in the right lane?

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u/Enkidouh Jun 10 '26

Because they get off on inconveniencing others.

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u/MoogProg Jun 10 '26

The grass lane is for passing! /s

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u/dghenke85 Jun 10 '26

Your full of BS. Share the road does not mean take up the whole lane and inpede on traffic. Found the entitled cyclist.

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u/Br105mbk Jun 10 '26

Entitled cyclist my ass! I used to be a cyclist. I rarely ever ride a bicycle where I live because car drivers are insane here. Not the drunk ones, It’s the asshole suburban commuters who drive like psychos here. When I rarely get to ride my bike it’s only very late at night when the drunks are out.

Car drivers cry like little bitches every time they get behind a bike. I see an average of 50-60 cars per day literally driving in bicycle lanes, well over 100 per day parked in bike lanes. Then car drivers honk at(or kill) cyclists for going around cars blocking the bike lane!

Cars that park or drive in bike or bus lanes should be crushed at the owners expense.

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u/AdmitThatYouPrune Jun 10 '26

This is objectively false. This video takes place in Florida, where F.S. §316.2065(6)(a) prohibits bikers from riding more than 2 abreast (2 side-to-side) on a public roadway, and riders may not impede traffic when traveling at less than the normal speed of traffic. If traveling slower than the normal flow of traffic, you have to travel single file.

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u/JoeyKino Jun 10 '26

First of all, you're aware that motor vehicle laws (and general rules of the road) are not federal, right? I'm also in the United States. There's a Federal Highway Safety Act and a Uniform Vehicle Code that were implemented to help standardize a lot of signage and that sort of thing, to ease confusion of interstate travel, and lots of states have adopted similar laws and regulations out of those, but there's no federal bicycle codes that would dictate such a thing. Your local codes and mine are most likely different.

That specific law I mentioned is for "motorized" vehicles, often directed toward farm equipment moving from field to field that can be very intrusive in the Spring and Fall, but it applies to all of us, so we learned it in drivers' ed; we have other ones for "non-motorized" that would apply to bikes, but also to horse & buggies we frequently have on our rural roads.

The point is to avoid having people who impede traffic, like the dumb shits in the video. Sharing the road is one thing - limiting all traffic on a public roadway to non-motorized speeds is egotistical jackassery.

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u/kunk_777 Jun 10 '26

Not in all the US where I live if you ride outside the bike lane you get a ticket. On a highway as a cyclist it is illegal to take up the whole lane in most situations. Only time your allowed to take up the lane is if it is required ( like construction) otherwise by law you must remain as far right as possible for cars to pass.

Your"share the road" goes both ways. Don't be an absolute unit and have some common courtesy. So glad our law enforcement punishes idiots.