When a cyclist uses a busy road, he slows down all the cars, making them less efficient, using a lower gear, overtaking, changing speed, etc. So you bastards aren't green at all.
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Cyclists waste petrol
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It's "breathe".
And text consumes f*ck all bandwidth.
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5 years ago
Plenty 4x4s, which you lot call trucks. A truck is actually a lorry and weighs 50 tonnes fully laden.
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5 years ago
You bastards dinnae like it when you're cycling on the cheap shit non-steamrolled tarmac and the stone chips fly into your face. Ha!
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+1 Especially if riding in groups wearing lycra.
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Around here they just run over the cyclists. If the F350 doesn't get them the horse trailer will..
I'm becoming a pussy in my old age and really like dedicated bike paths. Sharing narrow, shoulderless roads with traffic isn't my thing anymore.
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If it ain't a Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 it ain't a real truck.
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Cars aren't allowed to drive two abreast, so why cyclists?
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Sharing them when there's a cycle path right next to the bloody road is insanity, yet they all do it around here.
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Anyone with a BMW or Merc has more money than sense.
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Prick.
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Cyclist lover. Pounder likes seeing their buttocks gyrating in lycra.
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When I'm in a bunch of traffic going 40mph, I'm in 5th gear driving economically. Then a cyclist makes us all go 20mph, and I'm in 4th. That uses more.
Yes. You can't drive slowly in 5th. Therefore the engine is turning over more times for the same distance.
Show me a car that drives happily in 5th at 20mph.
Most ignore the limit and drive at an economical speed. Certainly a steady one and certainly in top gear.
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I've seen that. They are usually dressed in gaily colored Lycra to boot. Personally the further I get from the road on a bicycle the better I like it. Fortunately there are quite a few paths around here for recreational riding.
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I've never been very impressed by them. I did have an Audi once and we didn't get along well either.
The BMW motorcycle riders tend to be more of the same. The club came through town and there were several arrests and one fatality iirc. When the Hells Angels came here on vacation there were many arrests -- all of local kids protesting the cops treatment of them. The police chief got fired over that fiasco. Turns out you can't import out of state cops to swell your ranks in this state.
I wouldn't mind an old RS80 or such but the new BMW bikes are overpriced and a nightmare to work on.
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So a cyclist just causes petrol to be used that they would have used had they gone by car. Except not as much.
Alternatively, with more cars are on the roads you have to wait longer at junctions. Sitting stationary isn't free.
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the problem is when I'm cycling I hate motorists and bikers......when I'm on a bike I hate cyclists and motorists......when I'm in my car I hate bikers and motorists........wonder what will happen when I get and build up my escooter and ride on the road and in cycle lanes and bus lanes.......probably hate EVERYBODY......except myself for having discovered the best way to travel around locally ....
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And so they spend much time and money making special cycle ways, or worse shared spaces where everyone has to avoid each other resulting in the less able not going anywhere near them, reducing footfall in town centres and putting more people in cars instead.
I do sometimes wonder if the planners actually think things right through to the end. For example even when a cycle way is totally segregated, it pinches road space from both vehicles and pedestrians, but come the start and end of said cycle way, the cyclist has to go back on the road, cross running traffic or mingle with pedestrians, so with fewer lanes of traffic, the flow is slower and with the mixing of cyclists at the end you often need lights to stop accidents. It may look good but come mid winter all the good weather cyclists are back in their cars moaning about the lack of road space. I have pointed this out to the councils and others but am met with the blank its current policy to discourage car use. Next you will find that shops on top of fighting online competition will want cars back to increase their customers again during the winter. Whatever you do, unless you can move all the building back, you cannot have it all ways.
Interesting to note that several companies are now back to talking about cars that run on hydrogen again for long distance use, using fuel cells. Brian
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Sew hwot yew pedent.