My drive to work is 18 miles each way, most of which is on a two lane country road (READ: 3 places to pass). Well, driving to work the other day, I come around a curve and there's a line of 4-5 cars just crawling along. Then I see the reason:


Some WEASEL is riding a bicycle down the center of our lane... And not just an ordinary weasel, one fully decked out in the speedo's and the goofy bicycle helmet, and whatnot. UUGH


Well, we get to a semi-straight spotin the road and the cars in front of me go around the biker, most obviously p!$$ed off. I ease up to Mr. Fitness and right as he gets along side my front bumper, I floor it.


Sooted him as best I could. At that point, I would have given almost anything to have had my truck be a soot-blowin' monster like Mac's or some of the other ppl here... However, I did what I could.

How bout sum chewn tabaco..http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Big Smile.gif

I ease up to Mr. Fitness and right as he gets along side my front bumper, I floor it.


Sooted him as best I could. At that point, I would have given almost anything to have had my truck be a soot-blowin' monster like Mac's or some of the other ppl here... However, I did what I could.




Oh to have a K3LA and full 150lbs in the tank in a situation like thathttp://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Evil Smile.gif

Jim

SaguaroKid


Now that's just mean-spirited. http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/HiHi.gif

You are wrong bikes have just as much right to road as you do. There are lots of bikers around here. If you pulled a stunt like that here you would most likely get a ticket.

Bikes do not have any right to drive in the middle of the road. Most of them are very ignorant and ride side by side like they own the road. I just drive close to them like any other vehicle on the road, they get the idea.
I had an accident with a guy on a bike 2 years ago but not my fault as he ran a stop sign coming off a bike path that crossed a street.. He was OK just did a helicopter spin into the bushes. http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Big Smile.gif

You are wrong bikes have just as much right to road as you do. There are lots of bikers around here. If you pulled a stunt like that here you would most likely get a ticket.

don't know about where you live but in Kalifornia:

Cyclists must ride in the same direction as other traffic, not against it. They should normally ride in a straight line as near to the right curb or edge of the roadway as practical.

Also.

On a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe because of traffic in the opposite direction or other conditions, a slow-moving vehicle, including a passenger vehicle, behind which five or more vehicles are formed in line, shall turn off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the authority having jurisdiction over the highway, or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicles following it to proceed. As used in this section a slow-moving vehicle is one which is proceeding at a rate of speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place.

Any way you cut the mustard this clown was in violation of at least two codes. I'm sure other states have similar laws on the books.

Jim

Yep, he was worthy of a level 5 Juicing and arguably a glancing blow of the side mirror to knock some sense into his head. http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Approve.gif


But seriously, it wouldn't hurt to call the cops to let them know that the guy was in darwinistic danger.

As I read this it got my blood to boil, I too have had these A$$ Holes on their bicycle holding up traffic without a care in the world. Like everybody in cars or trucks owe them their spot on the road. They seem to forget that a couple of ton vehicle even if they are in the right wins.


One other thing be careful on calling thse idiots "Bikers" that term is for us Harley ridershttp://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Big Smile.gif

Good call CStone,


Effin bikers!! Bike paths all over the place, they gotta use our roads. Do nothing but p!ss people off and slow 'em down. Even when they're going close to the speed limit, I still worry they're gonna hit a rock and come crashing down right UNDER my 7,000lb truck. Don't matter who's fault, the biker's losing every time in that scenario. Bicycling just ain't that fun to take the risk.


Make 'em pay for a special bicycle license, registration, and some hefty insurance - and outlaw helmets on public roads. That'll make think twice before wandering out in the path of very heavy and mostly metal vehicles.


Or, build them a 1 mile oval, let em turn left all day long to their hearts desire. Maybe they'll get dizzy and crash into each other.

I give'm hell every chance I get .... I know have the caliber of smoke that will make joggers jump in the ditch and a bicyclist be looking for a dirt road ....


I've drive thru a less then desirable neighbor "hood" every day ... You wanna talk Peeves ??


How about people driving down the road talking to people on the curb ?? How about the ones that see their "bro" and park on a 45 up against the curb to shoot the sh*t blocking traffic making you wait for oncoming traffic to clear so you can cross the double line to get around ??How about people that think all pedestrians have the right away no matter what that when the walk out of a store or mall and they just make a bee line from the door right to cross the the street ??


Or the ones that step off the curb in the crosswalk while your coming full steam ...http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Angry.gif





I SOOT THEM ALL ,HEAVY .... My revenge !!!!


Mac http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/HiHi.gif

Guys, I'm not a bike rider and the one I do own has hung in the garage for years now but be very cautious passing those riders. No matter how mad we get at these inconsiderate riders all it takes is one screw-up and the driver is in court defending himself. For me this is a really big inconvenience so I just give them the lane, if I can, while I pass them. There are enough other opportunities to get ticked-off at. So I let it all go.


In this area we have horse-drawn buggys and JDs pulling wagons on the roads - even at night with a single battery operated light and a warning triangle! So, just a friendly suggestion...keep cool over the bicycle riders and save the high temps for the EGTs! http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Approve.gif

While I don't have any stories to share of this caliber (no pun intended), I have to say this is the best laugh I have had in a while...not to mention timing, I needed it!!


Thanks for the laughs!!!
Bob

You should see the Cops on Bikes ,you wanna talk annoying ...


Things have become so backasswards .... My tax dollars repair the pavement concrete passageway .... I pay in excess of 2 grand just in property tax alone on my motorized vehicles along with registration and licensing insurance fees ....





We have many recreational areas in CT ...From paved Bike trails to rural transmission lines for this purpose ,bike riding ....


Mac Edited by: Mackin

In our fruitcake community....... the bicycle folks rule the road.
If you harrass them in any form or fashion, you will be sued and lose.

I stay clear of the folks on the bikes. If I have to slow or stop
I do. To do anything else is just stupidity and will cause
problems for all parties.

I say cool your jets................

Trapped in Santa Cruz California

If there's a bike lane, and they're in it, no problems, pedal away. If they're holding up traffic, or on a road with no bike lane, they deserve everything they get, short of injury - no one wants to see that.


There's a few sections of freeway here with a big grades, speed limit's 65, two lanes. One rig's full going up the hill at 35. Rig behind it decides to pass, going 36. By the time they get to the top of the hill there's a mile long traffic jam behind them. Sh!t just ain't right.


Road Rage - don't condone it, but I understand it.

I'm a bicyclist sometimes... the wife and I will ride side by side when there's no traffic. When there is traffic, we ride trail to one another on the pavement between the right white and edge. If there's not space, we scoot off the road. Laws or no laws, 26 lb bike and 260 lb clydesdale VS even a geo metro is an equation for disaster.


56nomad, I grew up in watsonville... SC has some loons in it anyway. I feel sorry for you. Move to alaska :) It's so much nicer. I still dream of the day cali has "the big one" and my nevada land turns into beachfront property.

Hey, you should come and live in our area here in Allentown; we have a "world class" velodrome that attracts riders from all over the world for various championships, etc. You can tell when something big is going on because there are thousands, yes thousands, of riders pedaling around the roads all week from 1 rider to groups of 20 or more going 3, 4, 5, 6 wide and blocking everything. You just cannot avoid it and the cops in our area let them do what they want because of the "economic impact" that these events generate. Hey I ride my bikes also, but for the last 5 years are doing it off road on designated trails only, just not safe anymore on the roads and I know it.

All you ppl talking about cops and lawsuits and tickets over sooting a bicycle had me chuckling pretty good this AM.


Did I mention that the above incident occured about 15 miles from town on a country road with no sidewalks, curbs, etc? Plus, uou want to take a guess how many times a cop's been down that road since the turn of the century? HAAHAHA. Guys, this is rural East Tennessee. Cops don't show up unless there's the proverbial "Domestic Distrubance" call of the sort that end up on "Cops".


However, there WAS a shoulder the weasel could have ridden on, as most the bikers I see do. Plus, it was obvious that he'd been blocking traffic for a while based upon the # of cars between me and him. I respect bikers like SpoolinTurbo who show respect for the other ppl on the road.


Sorry things are so screwed up on the Left Coast, as described by 56Nomad and others above. My best friend growing up is now working as a consultant in SF, CA and I hear good stories from him quite often.Edited by: CStone

I thought bike riders were why some of you guys were putting snow plows on your trucks, you know to keep from scratching your truck on a Schwinn.

You are wrong bikes have just as much right to road as you do. There are lots of bikers around here. If you pulled a stunt like that here you would most likely get a ticket.





People like you make me ill. When I was younger I had something for inconsiderate scum like that, it was a compressed air fire extinguisher filled with piss and sewer water, and you better believe whoever was manning the gun in my passenger seat aimed right for the face. Welcome to Brooklyn.http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Angry.gif

Berk, I don't know what planet you're from, but i've seen blown headlight bulbs brighter than that.

I had a guy on a bike cut me off while I was driving a firetruck to a call once. Lights and sirens..the whole deal. Idiot. I swerved around him and good thing the rescue truck behind me did too. Biker musta been deaf...

A couple of things- Bicycles are not allowed on freeways, and if you have about 5 vehicles behind you, you are supposed to pull over to allow safe passing.


One other thing to think about. This bike rider may have had a driver before this crowd do somthing just like kicking up rocks and it may have pissed him off so then he takes it out on the next person. We all tend to try to get even somehow. I hate the fact that people are inconsiderate my self, but we don't allways know what happened earlier for them to be this way.

Berk, I don't know what planet you're from, but i've seen blown headlight bulbs brighter than that.





Ouch that hurts, I'm from planet SHOWSOMECONSIDERATIONORGETSCHOOLED.

Follow him home, then, next deer season put a gut pile in his mailbox or on his doorstep or better yet in his vehicle. Maybe put a bike helmet on the pile too.

You are wrong bikes have just as much right to road as you do. There are lots of bikers around here. If you pulled a stunt like that here you would most likely get a ticket.





People like you make me ill. When I was younger I had something for inconsiderate scum like that, it was a compressed air fire extinguisher filled with piss and sewer water, and you better believe whoever was manning the gun in my passenger seat aimed right for the face. Welcome to Brooklyn.http://www.dieselplace.com/forum/smileys/Angry.gif I Make you ILL? One don't ride bikes for one and two some RED NECK can't wait 2 second to pass a guy on a bike then he rides on his Ass what what would he done if he hurt the guy? We have enough of you Brooklyn ass here in Jersey stay on you own Fn State.

Dear Moderator.....

Any chance you can shut this string down now. Thanks.

Smoke'im if you got'im ....





Peace