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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by destructdisc@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.

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[-] strand@thelemmy.club 85 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't the road be closed for cars? At least no one died

[-] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 week ago

That's exactly what I was thinking how the fuck a car got in there the roads should be closed or marked. It seems to be a Highway to boot so there shouldn't be a lot of options left. The guy in the car was dumb yes but the organization incompetent.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes I don't know if this is a governmental issue or an issue with the event organizers.

Like obviously don't drive in the median and break traffic laws, but this kind of event not being appropriately managed is going to increase the likelihood of accidents. Mostly from assholes driving poorly

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[-] Geldaran@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago

That driver is obviously an idiot that needs his license revoked.

That said, as a fellow cyclist, you all need to do better as well. For this large an event, there should either be a road closure, or break it up into flights. If those aren't feasible, restrict yourselves to one lane instead of taking up both. Not excusing the drivers carelessness at all, but judging from your reaction to other comments here, your ride group's sense of entitlement is a problem as well.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Based on most of the comments here so far, you all hate cyclists more than cars.

[-] Goforce5@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

What I really seem to hate is just people with zero situational awareness operating any sort of vehicle.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 23 points 1 week ago

I'm a cyclist and when I'm on a bike I try to use the road responsibly. If I'm no a long climb going 10km/h with cars behind me I try to stop when possible and let them pass safely. I don't ride next to someone else chatting and blocking the entire lane. I don't ride on roads with speed limits over 60km/h. I would never do what they are doing in the video. It's just disrespectful and causing unnecessary tension between drivers and cyclists.

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All the LOCAL drivers know to expect it. If someone is from out of town they would have no way of knowing that happens on that road unless there are signs posted or something. The dude is still a dipshit though.

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[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 40 points 1 week ago

Actually admire some one taking a mini back to its rally roots

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago

Was anyone else hoping he would have hit a hidden ditch and wrecked his car?

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[-] DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is this an officially sanctioned event that has been authorized to take over a whole road?

If not, slower traffic should keep to the right. Share the road. Don't be a dick. It's not hard.

Edit: just realized where I am. This could have all been avoided with better public transportation. Fuck cars.

Edit #2: as a society we should absolutely be building public transportation and protected bike lanes. However, there are a shocking number of people talking about "entitled" this and "entitled" that and have no idea what the actual laws are for sharing the road using the current existing infrastructure in this video.

This video appears to be an asshole in a car passing some assholes on bicycles.

Florida Statute § 316.081(3): On a road, street, or highway having two or more lanes allowing movement in the same direction, a driver may not continue to operate a motor vehicle in the furthermost left-hand lane if the driver knows or reasonably should know that he or she is being overtaken in that lane from the rear by a motor vehicle traveling at a higher rate of speed.

Florida Statute § 316.2065(5)(a): A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing must ride in the bicycle lane or, if there is no bicycle lane on the roadway, as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway

Every cyclist in the left lane blocking the faster traffic should be written a ticket.

Unless they've gone through some kind of permitting process then they have no more moral ground than the street takeover assholes that go around shutting down roads to do donuts.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

The cyclists have every right to use that road as cars.

End of story. Grow the fuck up, motorists.

You're going to get where you're going a minute or two later than you wanted. Big fucking deal.

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[-] Doom@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Know what solves this. Protected bike infrastructure that segregates car and cycling traffic. You all are making good points on both sides. But if the two types of traffic never interact this becomes a non-issue.

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[-] girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

It's actually sad to see how many people are on the side of a beligerant driver going offload because of their road rage. Comments blaming the cyclists for being unpredictable, unsafe, or unfair to other drivers couldn't be further from the truth.

Cycling safety courses teach that you should stay together when riding as a group. Those saying they should've closed the road down are basically saying drivers can't be trusted to handle having cyclists on the road, hence why the group is so clustered for protection.

[-] x0x7@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

BS. I'm a cyclists and a driver. Cyclists 100% can be unpredictable, not follow rules, while demanding rule following from others. They are developing a bad reputation for a reason.

It's not an absolute. But generally once someone starts dressing in lycra, they stop being a reasonable person. I will always cycle in street clothes. I don't care how many miles I do. I will never become a MAMIL (middle aged male in lycra). Because I like cycling, but cycling culture is getting wack.

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[-] treesapx@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Modern US society makes it so difficult to have a community. This video is just another example of how "personal liberty" can be used as a cudgel to force conformity.

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[-] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 week ago

I see the highest throughput of people that road had all week now that it isn't blocked by cars for once.

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[-] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

"Share the road" goes both ways. It's a two way street so to say.

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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago

Ok but why not block the road or have at least one lane open? No one's using the right lane it seems.

[-] Surp@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Devils advocate theres a pregnant woman in the backseat but also a hijacker has planted a bomb in the car and if they go under 50mph the car blows up

[-] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Maybe they have to shit really bad.

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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 points 1 week ago

I've never seen a peloton just block the whole road like that. If you have to occupy all lanes you close the road. If you don't have permission to close the road you use only one lane. It looks like the cyclists are doing this on purpose to make a point or something.

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[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

When they close the road for races here the cops are on every corner. This dude would've gotten the shaft real quick.

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[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago

The drivers a dickhead and I was secretly hoping they'd have a wheel ripped of by a hidden kerb or something and I hope they were at the very least arrested for that, but... well, let me come back to this thought.

Those cyclists are irresponsible pricks for riding in a pack like that. They look like they're trying to buy the own little Tour de France but that's clearly not a rally that was organised with cooperation of ANY relevant authority - council, highways, police, whatever - and just looks to me like a bunch of yuppies that decided to take over a highway. No pilot vehicles, no safety stewards, occupying the full width of both lanes for no reason other than that they can, just a rolling roadblock of self-righteousness and no consideration for other road users.

So, as I was saying: the drivers a dickhead and I was secretly hoping they'd have a wheel ripped of by a hidden kerb or something and I hope they were at the very least arrested for that, but... maybe they had a really, really good excuse for wanting - or needing - to get somewhere with desperate urgency and simply could not afford to be delayed at all, let alone by the arbitrary whims of a bunch of hobbyists. Or maybe everybody in the video was being a selfish-righteous prick.

[-] Postimo@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Roads don't belong to cars. If each of the bikers were in their own car for a 3 mile long traffic blob for some hobby event no one would have batted an eye.

[-] turdas@suppo.fi 15 points 1 week ago

Roads don't belong to cyclists either. They belong to everyone. Common courtesy says everyone needs to be considerate of others on public property.

Also if each of these cyclists was in a car for a 3 mile long traffic blob and did this as a regularly scheduled event, it would get shut down by the authorities right quick for disrupting traffic and lots of people would be mad about it. I know this because "car enthusiasts" do exactly that kind of thing fairly frequently and that's the response it gets.

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