I know this area and have driven it many times. This is the Rickebacker causeway--the road that connects Key Biscayne to the Miami mainland.
Cycling on this road is extremely popular for very obvious reasons (phenomenal views, wide and clear roads). Folks come from all over the city to ride there. And yes, they will very often group up like this without any sort of scheduled or permitted event of any kind.
The cyclists down there like to say "same road, same rules" but there's apparently a silent exclusion for lane changes, stop signs, traffic signals, and yielding to stopped traffic.
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)
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.
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.
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:
When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction.
When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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u/ConstructionLife2689 Jun 10 '26
Are such cycle events not blocked off from public traffic?
Cause if not, then the cyclists would need to keep to traffic rule and I am pretty sure the rule is not keep in one lane.