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big tee

big tee

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Saw this--will make some growl----We have RAGBRAI in Iowa
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I can put up with the bugs more than the bike riders. Was on a tractor ride and the bikers just stopped in their lane for a break, on a curve in a blind spot on a highway and we had to take the shoulder to go around them. It was a gravel shoulder. But then again we were in Iowa.
 
I wouldn't be caught dead out on the road on a bicycle.
But that is probably how they would find me. DEAD.
Traffic now is crazy.
Or maybe it is the drivers.
Richard
 
Seems like a lot of bicycle haters on here, or just the most vocal! I had to stay off mine for 10 days because of surgery, but I plan to ride it around the lake today. 15 miles, but most of it is on bike trails or quiet streets, and no farmers!
 
Yep, fall is here, but wait, there's more ....... more 100 degree days coming. I agree on the bicyclists. The 2 lane winding county road I live on has been under construction for almost a year where a new school is being built. For several months it was one way north thru the construction zone so drivers going south had to detour by another route. Not the cyclists! They'd just go the wrong way.
 
As I get older I look for low impact exercises. Bikes provide that BUT when I went to a bike shop to looked at a few bikes, then prices (some over $8000 striped down), I had to ask were the motor was. The salesman turn and pointed to a pedal bike with a motor (49cc). I?d just like to ride an old fashion bike down an untraveled road where I?m out of everybody's way to get a little exercise.
PS. IMHO I don?t think I?d look good in one of those stupid aero dynamic helmets or speedos.
 
Stinking joggers are worse. Traffic coming both ways and they won't step off the blacktop. Might get their $400 running shoes dusty. Then if one of them gets hit, they sue everybody in sight. The worst part is that in town there are sidewalks about everywhere but those peckerwoods won't use them. Gotta be in the road.
 
We have a lot of people riding bicycles on my road and I'm glad of it, slows down the idiots flying thru here in cars and pickups.Bikes are fast enough to pass me on a tractor
lots of time.People really need to get out of the mentality of what they drive should be the only type vehicle allowed on the road.
 
WHY? 30 plus mile bike trail on old Railroad Right of way purchased with fuel tax funds and improved with same, no hills, 1 block to 1 mile from divided 4 lane major highway w/70 mph speed limit. Where are the 2 wheelers, on shoulder of highway riding 3 abreast . Why do I hate idiots?
 
Bicycling is great exercise... but I wish they'd move over to the shoulder when a vehicle approaches. It is frustrating to be trapped behind them in areas where one cannot pass - toss in some curves and/or hills and a driver can be stuck behind them for a length of time. THEN add in the masses that participate in RAGBRAI and it becomes a ridiculous mess.

To me it's kind of like pedestrian crosswalks... Yes, I have a right to walk out of a store and enter a crosswalk, making an oncoming vehicle stop. But in my opinion, just because I can - doesn't mean I should. I refrain from doing it for two reasons: courtesy and for my own personal safety. Sure, I have the right-of-way, but if hit by a car in a crosswalk - I KNOW who's gonna be on the losing end. Me.

So I think the same thing regarding bicyclists: Sure you may have the right to be in the traffic lane but if a cyclist gets hit by an auto, THEY will be the ones getting the worst end of it.
 
Hi folks, we have the same problems with cyclists here in the UK. It would help if the wore brighter clothes and rode single file instead of two or three abreast talking to one another instead of looking were they are going, MJ
 
Those bike riders pay no license or permits to ride their bikes on a public road or trail, make them pay up
 
,,,,,,and we don't want to see you in one either!~! Garage sales have bikes sometimes and big box stores have them cheap. gm
 
Ragbrai is not a problem as they are only in your area for one day. So for just one day in your life set back and watch them as they are having just good old fashioned fun
 
I have no problem with bicyclist who are courteous to others. What we see here on a state highway the cyclist who bike across country for vacations are rudeness and arrogance. Some will freely admit that the just look for an inviting spot, move off into a wooded area, and make camp at night WITHOUT asking the land owner. I get to run one or 2 a year off of our farm every year. What I do is scout em out about 5-6 PM then go back right as it's getting dark to run em off. Cell phone in hand I tell em get of or the sheriff can haul em off. If they leave after they clean up no problem. If they insist I can have the cops write em a ticket and make them leave. But them are leaving.

Then the part I love the best is running into one at a convenience store. When they are whining to anyone who will listen about how terrible car/truck drivers are. They always gotta go on about having the right to be out there. I just love pointing out that exercising those rights is something that their survivors will have to argue cause if they argue with a car or truck? While on that bike? Well they are going to lose. I got taught in drivers training that right or right of way doesn't mean anything if you are dead.
 
A bicycle or two isn't bad. When you get behind thousands of them with a loaded truck on a winding road the temper starts to become short.
 
Most bikers probably drive their car like they ride a bike. Thinking they are the idiot that owns the road.

Heavy oversized trucks are required to stop and let traffic pass if holding things up. Should be the same for bicycles.
 
I used to like to ride but I haven't for a long time. Hearing aide do not pick up sound from behind very well and I can't hear the cars. A close friend rides a lot but always on bike trails. On tractors I've been hit a couple of times and a lot more close calls, within 1/2 mile of home. Hand signals don't seem to matter.
 
(quoted from post at 09:52:15 09/23/19) A bicycle or two isn't bad. When you get behind thousands of them with a loaded truck on a winding road the temper starts to become short.
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Where do you live that this is a regular occurrence?

The truth of the matter is you might have to deal with it ONCE per year, if you just happen to time it right. A little due diligence when you know that time of year is coming, to ensure that you know when the ride is happening and to avoid that route on that day...
 
about 25 years ago in quarryville pa. they were having some kinda bicycle rally through quarryville and as usual they made a nuisance of them selves they tied up the roads some roads were completely shut down...

however they were dealt with in an unusual way, seems some Amish boys had placed thumb tacks on the road and then run up a hill hiding behind some sort of statues or monuments laughing at these cyclists and their flat tires have to admit i had a good laugh at that also having been tied up in the traffic problems my self....
 
I have liability insurance but its not required by law.Probably most bike riders do too but be real what is going to do more damage a 25lb bike or 10,000 lb tractor?
 
Hi Sweetfeet, former cyclist here, just thought I would explain why they ride on the road and not the shoulder. When I rode I would always try to stay near the fog line but not go in the road, the reason is debris and garbage on the shoulder. The tires on my bike were $76.00 apiece and that doesn't include the tube, I rode at 115 PSI in each tire, it doesn't take much to get a blowout and that's why most cyclists dont ride right on the shoulder. I also had a mirror to watch traffic coming from behind, 90% of the people would give me room but the others, not a chance, so you have to move to the right. I had a guy pass by me once at 65mph within less than a foot pulling a large trailer, thats just stupid, like TF said, "jailtime or prison for hitting and killing a cyclist" a lot easier to just move to the left a couple feet while passing. I never rode like that to be a jerk and was well aware of the outcome of car or truck vs. bike, it was nerve wracking at times to say the least.

I always preferred bike trails but when your riding 24 to 27 mph, bike trail people (walkers) get crabby at you.
 
(quoted from post at 08:15:47 09/23/19) Those bike riders pay no license or permits to ride their bikes on a public road or trail, make them pay up
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Pay up for WHAT??
They cause zero wear on the road. You don't need a permit to travel on a bike, kind of a constitutional freedom to travel...
What little money they'd get charged would get eaten up by administrative costs before the first penny would make it to any actual road maintenance.
I get groups of cyclists going down my road, sometimes up to 50 or so, never had a problem other than a delay of a few SECONDS.
 
(quoted from post at 13:21:26 09/23/19)
(quoted from post at 08:15:47 09/23/19) Those bike riders pay no license or permits to ride their bikes on a public road or trail, make them pay up
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Pay up for WHAT??
They cause zero wear on the road. You don't need a permit to travel on a bike, kind of a constitutional freedom to travel...
What little money they'd get charged would get eaten up by administrative costs before the first penny would make it to any actual road maintenance.
I get groups of cyclists going down my road, sometimes up to 50 or so, never had a problem other than a delay of a few SECONDS.
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To add to the above... Most folks you see enjoying a bicycle ride in the [b:37d9d5008f]country[/b:37d9d5008f] also own motor vehicles and pay license fees and fuel taxes.
 
Every Saturday morning they come past my place, taking up the whole lane of a two lane road at times. Cars backed up behind them. Stop signs mean nothing to them. Every couple months one becomes an organ donor. If I am holding up traffic with my trailer I will pull over and let traffic go by. I believe there is a law if you are holding up 5 or more cars you need to pull over when possible. Stan
 
Two weekends ago just seconds after it happened. Woman tryed to beat an SUV. Her nor the bike didn't come out winners.
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I have never heard of a Law for that. But someone raised with a little common sense and common courtesy would pull over and let the cars by then start again
 
We have signs along the highways in Iowa for motorists to "share the road"---I guess it doesn't apply to people who ride bikes!!! Isn't supposed to work both ways???---Tee
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You forgot to include pictures of tractor drives, combines and tillage equipment tying up traffic too.
 
(quoted from post at 10:52:16 09/23/19)
(quoted from post at 09:52:15 09/23/19) A bicycle or two isn't bad. When you get behind thousands of them with a loaded truck on a winding road the temper starts to become short.
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Where do you live that this is a regular occurrence?

The truth of the matter is you might have to deal with it ONCE per year, if you just happen to time it right. A little due diligence when you know that time of year is coming, to ensure that you know when the ride is happening and to avoid that route on that day...
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Barnyard, sometimes in the commercial trucking world we don t have a choice of when we have to drive or the route we can take. The world can t stop for a hoard of bicycles, dont you understand that?
 
I do believe that a bicycle has the same right as a motor vehicle for lane width. Yes they can become a bit of a irritation when there are a lot of them like in those organized rides. I guess no more than a line of tractors out on a ride/parade deal. I have encountered all of these things at times. I also have taken up all the road with the combine, or tractor and tillage equipment. Now if they are taking the whole road as in Tee's picture. There is no need of that ,as that is a good way to be hit by oncoming traffic as it tops a hill unable to see them.
 
I live in West Central Ohio. Terrain is reasonably flat from here to the Columbus Metropolitan Area where over a Million People live. It seems like about a thousand (probably more like 50 to 100) like to hop on their bikes and take to the Township and County roads that run across that flat terrain every day to come to the town I live close to and get a meal in the restaurant. (Usually Breakfast) and then ride home. They just happen to use the same roads lots of people in cars use to go to the same places they do. They ALL own the whole road, whether in groups of 10 or only 2. I have family in the Big City, so either they or I am going one way or the other on the same roads.
 
(quoted from post at 03:16:14 09/24/19) I do believe that a bicycle has the same right as a motor vehicle for lane width. Yes they can become a bit of a irritation when there are a lot of them like in those organized rides. I guess no more than a line of tractors out on a ride/parade deal. I have encountered all of these things at times. I also have taken up all the road with the combine, or tractor and tillage equipment. Now if they are taking the whole road as in Tee's picture. There is no need of that ,as that is a good way to be hit by oncoming traffic as it tops a hill unable to see them.
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I'm pretty sure Tee's pic is showing an organized ride on a closed road.
 
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