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Originally Posted by xenigo
I'm huge on bicycling. I'd say I'm a bicycling enthisiast... And in years past I rode several hundred miles per week. What I'm saying is that vast numbers of bicyclists think no laws apply to them. Sometimes it costs them their lives.
If you live in a metro area, you see it too. Do you ignore it? Sounds like you're advocating it.
If I can video tape an intersection and capture 1000 riders in a single day blowing a red light at full speed... Would you think it was a problem then? That's the magnitude of the problem around here. It's not my imagination and I'm certainly not a hater.
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If you just need or want someone to bitch at, Im sure it would be very easy for you to find someone else on here to do that with.
You ride, I ride. I would also say Im a bicycle enthusiast. Im not advocating what you think I am.
Lets just put it in easy terms for you....
a douchebag is a douchebag. Wether they are on a bike or in a car, on a plane or on a train. We all know there are plenty of douchebags right here in this forum and I would bet half if not most would have a heart attack if they even got on a bike or walked a flight of stairs.
I even agreed with you that you probably got a shitful of douchebags on bikes in san fran.
The title of this thread is "people on bikes are douchebags" which is bullshit. Not everyone who rides a bike is a douchebag. Are you a douchebag? Im certainly not going to admit to being a douchebag. So that makes at least 2 people that ride bikes are not douchebags. You could be a douchebag, but lets just say for the sake of this conversation that you are not. That debunks that the comment that "people on bikes are douchebags".
Now if Fris would have said, "85% of people on bikes are douchebags" then that would be more easier to accept, however I would then be interested in how he comes up with those numbers. Is it just the people he sees? Maybe he saw some muscular dude in shape riding with a hot chick and thought... "dag nab it, that guy is a douchebag!!"
Fuck, give it a rest.
People in cars are douchebags. Hows that? People who ride motorcycles are douchebags.
Ive seen lots of motorcyclists ride between cars, and would you believe getting stuck on the interstate them pesky motorcyclists have the nerve the ride between and around cars? The NERVE!! lol
If your on a bike, and you blow through a red light and you get hit. Your not only a douchebag, but you might also get to leave in a giant douchebag, with the words "coroners office" on it.
This thread should have read, "people on bikes who blow through red lights are douchebags" that would have been more socially acceptable to the non douchebag people on bikes.