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We're talking about around 100 people taking as much space as 10 cars... The road's public they have the fucking right to be on it.
Yea but the standard is that slower traffic keeps right, we don't have to block the entire roadway left to right
The only case where bikes should be the entire road is if its an official event with road closures to accomodate
Yes, exactly.
imagine the rage against cars if there was a picture of cars doing a rolling blockade like this. People would be apoplectic
If its wrong for cars to do it, its wrong for anyone else to do it too. And if you don't think thats true, then you're a hypocrite (general you, not accosting you, Baguette)
That's just regular car traffic. And nobody is upset about that.
Taxi drivers do this when protesting
IN my many many decades I've never seen anything but police match speed and drive abreast to become a rolling barricade..and that was only to bring traffic to a halt due to an accident up a head.
This isn't a rolling barricade it's just a critical mass of cyclists. When there's enough car traffic to bring travel to a crawl we don't call it a rolling barricade we just call it throughput capacity.
....but cars do that already....wot?
Have you never been stuck in a traffic jam? ....What are you talking about?
That is strictly an interstate highway standard. This is a local stroad in Florida. Keep right unless passing does not apply here.
If we want to be really pedantic then yes Florida is one of the states that actually has a law for keep right on any multilane road, including the one in the video
https://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?mode=View+Statutes&SubMenu=1&App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=316.081&URL=0300-0399%2F0316%2FSections%2F0316.081.html
Damn then there's like 80 cyclists passing in this video.
They aren't
Bike clubs have a leader who manages the group. No one is outpacing the ride leader. It's not a free for all race, it's just a club
Like it's not hard to recognize biking is a great mode of transportation but you should not block the entire roadway for others when doing so
Imagine an ambulance stuck in traffic from their terrible decision or a bus running late because he can't make his route when going 15mph.
At the end of the day the club is in the wrong, the car driving in the head is in the wrong. There's no need to make it good guy vs bad guy when both parties are doing things wrong
It's a joke.
But that doesnt mesh with their feelings and outrage so that doesnt matter.
Yes they do.
They don't have the fucking right to be a rolling barricade by blocking the entire road for everything behind them.
Jesus christ, the amount of hysterical overreaction and rage in response to daring to suggest the cyclists should keep right and not block everything for everyone, like slow traffic is supposed to do, is patently ridiculous.
It's pretty ironic that you think everyone else is having an hysterical overreaction.
A classic "no,u", huh
The group cycling standrad is every 2 together, and at the end a relay protection car behind the whole group. Even if they were 60 or 100 they can still ride in 2s and only take 1 side of the road.
Also, ffs these twats ware doing it for sports... go to a gym, jerk off at home, or block 1 lane , or 2 at worst if the road allows it. Why block the whole road.. shit like this is not even acceptable in protests let alone wankers in expensive carbon-fiber rides playing a hobby or sport games.