Bicyclist pisses everyone off by ‘legally’ riding in the street (2020)
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#3I used to be this annoying when cycling in London sometimes when I was a bit younger. When cycling this assertively, it's just a matter of time before someone does one of three things: a super-close revenge overtake, ram your back wheel, or fight you in the street
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#4I used to be this annoying when cycling in London sometimes when I was a bit younger. When cycling this assertively, it's just a matter of time before someone does one of three things: a super-close revenge overtake, ram your back wheel, or fight you in the street
It’s true. Drivers can often be absolutely psychotic. Like they actually, sincerely want you dead because you (theoretically) inconvenience them briefly.
I rarely ride my bike on the road in my home country, Australia, for fear of my life. Instead I travel to bike-friendly countries, like Japan and the Netherlands, to do my cycling. The difference is night and day. Somehow in countries where cycling is normal drivers just don’t seem to have an issue with you taking up space on the road. (As the guy in the video says, “I am traffic.”)
It’s a great shame that the most efficient and environmentally friendly form of transport is so despised in so many places. And that’s a massive understatement.
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#5And so they paint the ground on the bike lane... rain + paint might as well be wet leaves or black ice.
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#6Madrid is not that good for riding to commute even though ‘We are Europeans’ here.
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#7I used to be this annoying when cycling in London sometimes when I was a bit younger. When cycling this assertively, it's just a matter of time before someone does one of three things: a super-close revenge overtake, ram your back wheel, or fight you in the street
It’s true. Drivers can often be absolutely psychotic. Like they actually, sincerely want you dead because you (theoretically) inconvenience them briefly. I rarely ride my bike on the road in my home country, Australia, for fear of my life. Instead I travel to bike-friendly countries, like Japan and the Netherlands, to do my cycling. The difference is night and day. Somehow in countries where cycling is normal drivers…
Almost purchased a bike second-hand this afternoon. Reasons like this made me back out.
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#8As a driver (and a cyclist) I find that pedal bikes in the congested city core are annoying (because of slow acceleration) but ebikes are bearable because they accelerate faster than cars when the light turns green. Once up to speed (20mph / 32kph) ebikes are bearable because on average that's the speed of the flow of traffic once you account for red lights.
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#9The problem is he's slow; he's going something like 15 km/h in narrow lanes where drivers are expecting to be able to go 30 km/h.
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#10As a driver (and a cyclist) I find that pedal bikes in the congested city core are annoying (because of slow acceleration) but ebikes are bearable because they accelerate faster than cars when the light turns green. Once up to speed (20mph / 32kph) ebikes are bearable because on average that's the speed of the flow of traffic once you account for red lights.
fascinating that you are not able to endure bikes going below the average speed of traffic flow