You could always fight for a useful solution like better bike lanes. That's exactly why they exist. Europeans have huge bike lanes and that cuts down heavily on bikes in the road.
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Brody Robinson
Juan Ortiz
I ride bikes in places where I'm not a danger and annoyance to everyone else on the planet.
ie, on dirt, in bike lanes, on the sidewalk.
Isaac Wood
Post strips?
Justin Williams
this is the only bicycling i like cause its basically enduro
youtu.be
Julian Gomez
Why do people still buy european bikes? Literally chinese sweatshop tier designed and built cheap shit with an inflated price
Wyatt Smith
>Why do people still buy non-nippon bikes?
ftfy
Jace Thompson
>Chinese sweatshop tier
Ktm is indian now...
Other than that you're just a prejudiced fuck
Muh /soul and passion/
Nathaniel Walker
I live in a large city in Germany and this is not true. Yes, we have bicycle lanes. They're only about as wide as a wide bicycle (1 m maybe?). Do 90% of the cyclists here use them? Nope, they're complete fuckfaces. Look at what kind of retards can get a driver's license. Now remember that
a) you don't need a license to ride a bicycle on the road so literally any idiot can and does ride a bicycle -- especially the detritus that can't drive because they're too dumb, poor or stuck-up and don't care to learn the rules of the road
b) bicycles don't have to conform to any standards other than having lights, reflectors and working brakes and even that isn't enforced unless fall has just started
c) due to no licensing and no plates on bikes you can't get cited for accidents you provoke if you can run before you're caught in the act. If you do get into an accident as a bicyclist, you're almost guaranteed to win because driver is licensed and is moving the larger vehicle, so has to be more responsible.
The end result is:
> red light
> bike lane not wide enough for bikers to stop next to each other
> fills up with the few that obey the rules
> shitheads (most of the time wannabe racers in spandex and with expensive helmets) don't stop at stopping line, pull up right to the crossing traffic where they can't even see the lights anymore
> repeat 5x, neither of them wants to be behind one of the others and so they clog the rightmost lanes by standing next to each other
> crossing peds annoyed
> dangerously close to crossing cars
> hipster students just blowing through intersections regardless of traffic lights
We even have dedicated bike lights that switch to green a little earlier so they have a chance to clear the intersection before cars try to turn right. They don't care.
I am always happy when I see a cyclist following traffic rules and especially when I see them get exasperated at those who don't. Nod to them and smile.
Gavin Gray
Opposed to the boring Chinese sweatshop design, cheaply build shit with an inflated price?
James Martinez
what bikes are still jap made? the only non-jap vehicle i own was inherited