Anyone ride a bike on the road?

Gloves. Always wear gloves.

Biking to work for me is about 20 minutes and I'm on the road for a good portion of it, but I stick to bike lanes when I can. I usually drive but sometimes I get pissed at myself for being so damn lazy and figure I ought to bike for a few days and do, and it's nice, and then I start driving again so I can listen to Autechre.

To be honest, I love biking fast, 20 mph for hours at a time. It keeps me active and cars just won't do that for you. So many driver out there are so goddamn lazy, and it's not a coincidence. So I'm not too fond of them.

Also, I'm just not fond of cars in the first place. They were a cool idea, let's move the fuck on already. The benefits don't outweigh the fucking consequences anymore.

Unfortunately, the entire country's infrastructure and city planning is based around mass transport of foods via automobile (which is unnecessary, no one fucking needs oranges in the winter, do without, you spoiled fuck) and so society would need a complete and total re haul to actually work efficiently without cars, which would ultimately be a better society, but nothing's going to change, so fuck 'em. I never asked for your fucking road, so fuck you. I'll bike on it how I please. I work my ass off while you sit in a car. FIGHT ME BRO.

Just so y'all don't get it twisted, that post is pretty much half-facetious. I'm exaggerating a lot, but also not very much. It's complicated, man. You wouldn't get it.

It's just so convenient and fast. Screw buses. I just need some winter gear now and Decathlon has a sake on and some nice jackets.

I bought a heavy ass bike in order to increase my stamina uphills and leg muscles, i recommend everyone to do this, the first few rides going uphill was a pain but now i feel like a beast when im done riding, such a good workout.

I've got an old steel Bridgestone from ~'78. Beastly weight on that thing, but it smooths out the shitty roads around here. Obese bikes for all.

If you live in the city, getting rid of your car and riding your bike everywhere sounds like a good idea... On paper. You may not have the burden of driving yourself, but that burden is put on everyone else by having to constantly look out for your haphazard ass. I've seen so many people laid out in the middle of the street and had a very bad feeling about it. So many people with death wishes. I think it's because it's common for lots of people in the city to have never owned a car, so they just don't get it.

But for all the responsible bike riders if there are any, I salute you.

Thanks

Just biked in to say that I ride almost every day.

I've been door'd, bumped, nearly crushed, rear-ended, and I have a metal plate over my clavicle bone. I built my own bike and love the shit out of it. His name is Bucephalus.

Motorists are murderous psychopaths that would step over their own grandmothers' dead body to get to work on time.

Cyclists are boastful, entitled slowpokes that expect too much from an uncompromising society.

Motorcyclists are just loud assholes.

A few words of wisdom:

Wear a helmet (It keeps your brains inside your head)

Be respectful to everyone around you (this changes everyone's perception of cyclists)

Enjoy the ride (you don't need to compete with anyone...except for, maybe, yourself)

when there isn't a bike lane i mostly ride on the pavement unless it's a quiet backstreet. I want to die old.

also, the other day I was on the bike lane, waiting for the green light, and there was this old man who was standing maybe one metre away from the bike lane. turns out he waits until the lights turn green and when the bikes start moving he starts shouting "owww owww!!!" as if he'd been run over. you can get into trouble because of that, what a fucking twat.

  On 5/7/2014 at 8:44 PM, Braintree said:

Motorcyclists are just loud assholes.

word.

*yells at random while riding down the street erratically*

  On 5/7/2014 at 8:44 PM, Braintree said:

 

Motorists are murderous psychopaths

  On 5/8/2014 at 1:36 AM, doublename said:

 

  On 5/7/2014 at 8:44 PM, Braintree said:

 

Humans are murderous psychopaths

 

Fixt.

I rode my bike everywhere for 6 years in SF. It really wasn't awesome. Pro-tip: if a car fucks with you, spit everything in your sinuses on their windshield.

  On 5/8/2014 at 3:10 AM, coolandfrank said:

I rode my bike everywhere for 6 years in SF. It really wasn't awesome. Pro-tip: if a car fucks with you, spit everything in your sinuses on their windshield.

I've seriously contemplated spitting into their open windows. The drivers in SF are completely oblivious.

People in cars don't even care if they run down a cyclist. It's as if they do it on purpose. Most cyclists are extremely careful and aware of their surroundings so this bothers me a lot. Sickens me even.

Murder is more or less legal if you do it with a car (in America).

I'm less forgiving about riding on the sidewalk. It's pretty dangerous for pedestrians AND it's really detrimental to the cyclist cause, if you can call it that. Outside of most "bike-friendly" cities in the US, the most common thing you'll hear from annoyed car drivers is that you (the cyclist) shouldn't be on the road because there's a sidewalk.

The whole debate is pretty funny since 'walk' is built into the name...

Basically everyone sucks. Whatever mode of transportation someone chooses,they make up in their mind that they are in the right.

Almost got hit by a car today (I was on foot) because they didn't want to wait for me to cross the crosswalk, so they floored the gas to squeeze by me, by just inches.

Yesterday a woman blocked the sidewalk coming out of her garage, blocking pedestrians in both directions. She clearly saw us all approaching, and despite heavy traffic preventing her from backing out at that moment, decided everyone else could just wait.

No one cares about anyone else any more. Manners are no longer required, because we've made it possible to get through your day with out any interaction between strangers, so there is no sense of community, or common decency.