• Random Dent
    link
    fedilink
    English
    40
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    I have to admit I’m a bit guilty of this, but from both sides. I bike more than I drive, and when I’m driving all cyclists are a menace and are in the way, but when I bike all drivers are reckless idiots who are trying to kill me.

    • @Thebigguy@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      136 days ago

      The rule of the road is that any one going slower or faster than you is a menace, this applies to everyone with pedestrians being at the bottom of the food chain.

    • @easily3667@lemmus.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      11
      edit-2
      6 days ago

      To be fair most cyclists in major cities have a death wish. I don’t have another way to describe wearing all black in winter with no lights driving against traffic in a car lane (where there is also a dedicated, separated bike lane), and ignoring all stop signs and traffic signals. It’s a death wish.

      Yes it’s mostly doordash et al, but just because doordash doesn’t care about it’s workers doesn’t mean the workers don’t have to.

    • lilpatchy2eyes
      link
      fedilink
      56 days ago

      I still think about the time I passed a bicyclist on the road, reached a red light, and saw him pass between all the cars that had just passed him to stop in front of me again. We all had to pass him again.