Thread: Pet Peeves?

Originally Posted by Grazor

Funny you mentioned that, one of my biggest peeves is the male menopausal crew who rode their friends 90 cc 2 stroke yamahaha when they were 14 and think they can hop on a road king at 58 years of age.
Not hard to spot them, the bike is immaculate with low mileage and every conceivable factory extra. They wear Harley helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, socks, probably underwear and have 300 pins and patches on their vest.
They ride too fast or too slow. They have an intercom on their helmet so they can communicate with the pillion, which is usually a 350 lb behemoth squeezed in to a size too small matching leather jacket and pants.
They all belong to the HOG club and wear a beard.
On Monday they get in their suits and toddle off to the office in their Audi.
I give them a wide birth.
The only up side is they buy a new bike every two years, so you can pick up a low mileage bike for cheap.

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Been buying those bikes from them for years!

Adam

Originally Posted by 32t

Bicycle riders claim that they shouldn't have to stop at a stop sign because they have to take their feet off the pegs!

If they were in the Tour DE France and in the lead I would agree with them.

A yellow jersey is just wishful thinking.....................

Worse than that is living in a state where it is actually allowed

Idaho has a special "Stop Sign" 'Red light" laws for Bicyclists, along with the fact they can become Peddlers, Pedestrians or Cars at their own whim almost. By far the dumbest Bicylist laws I have ever seen..

Aloha!

Thought of a few other driving peeves.

You gotta' love those that will come to a stop light for a left hand turn and will NOT proceed or turn until they can't see ANY cars coming in their field of vision. For example, you are behind someone waiting to turn left at a green light with oncoming traffic. There is no left turn green arrow. This person waits and waits and waits hoping for a green arrow through multiple light cycles. They never learned to pull to the center of the intersection and turn left with the oncoming traffic stops for the red light. Neither will they ever chance taking that left if they see oncoming traffic approaching from 200 yards away. I mean, that traffic 200 yards away at 30 mph will only take 20 seconds to reach them. How can you possibly turn left in 20 seconds? You need a clear road, plenty of time, and no oncoming traffic for at least 1/4 mile to make left hand turns from an intersection with a stop light, right?

"Slow off the mark" drivers for short light cycles also really gets me. You have 15-20 seconds on some lights for a green left turn arrow, and Mr./Mrs. "I have all day" takes 10 seconds to realize the light is green, then they take 5 seconds to commit to the turn and 5 seconds to actually turn. Now the light is yellow and quickly red and one or two cars can possibly sneak through behind them while 20 cars sit for another light cycle. All 20 could have gone through if the first person had realized that they are not the ONLY people on the planet taking a left at that light that day. But I suppose as long as THEY are not inconvenienced by another 5 minute wait, it's OK in their world.

Come to Hawaii with 1 million people on the island of Oahu in cars on our limited roads and this is amplified in a big way. But even on the Mainland in busy cities, this causes huge traffic jams.

-Zip

So-called e-Bikes. They are, in point of fact, electric scooters that generally can cruise at about 40 kmh, though newer ones can get up to 60. These things get to be classed as "bicycles" because some genius stuck two pedals on them in a place where only someone riding bitch could use them. They will keep to the curb lane, which is good. But there slow speed and wide design (like 250 cc Honda) makes them an impediment to traffic on ALL but residential streets. So traffic backs up behind them as cars and trucks are forced to wait for room to maneuver around them. Then, at the next traffic light, they will cruise up along the curb to the front of the line, and force the entire process to start all over again. Worse still, if you deliberately pull next to the curb to prevent these shenanigans, they will just pull onto the sidewalk and cruise up to the lights that way. my wife regularly wishes she had a disintegration ray to use on bad drivers . . . I would start with ALL e-bikes.

Personally never much liked harley bikes, or anything that is intentionally loud. I do a lot of my walking in the middle of the city between buildings, and a bike like that is just a noise nuisance and people on them don't have much courtesy - they're like someone who intentionally doesn't courtesy flush in a full bathroom.

Same thing up my road - I'm in suburbia. There's hundreds of houses, and I don't care to hear slow cast-crank bikes that make more noise than power, bought by people who can't afford to buy them without making payments.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Worse than that is living in a state where it is actually allowed

Idaho has a special "Stop Sign" 'Red light" laws for Bicyclists, along with the fact they can become Peddlers, Pedestrians or Cars at their own whim almost. By far the dumbest Bicylist laws I have ever seen..

is right!

Originally Posted by Orville

So-called e-Bikes. They are, in point of fact, electric scooters that generally can cruise at about 40 kmh, though newer ones can get up to 60. These things get to be classed as "bicycles" because some genius stuck two pedals on them in a place where only someone riding bitch could use them. They will keep to the curb lane, which is good. But there slow speed and wide design (like 250 cc Honda) makes them an impediment to traffic on ALL but residential streets. So traffic backs up behind them as cars and trucks are forced to wait for room to maneuver around them. Then, at the next traffic light, they will cruise up along the curb to the front of the line, and force the entire process to start all over again. Worse still, if you deliberately pull next to the curb to prevent these shenanigans, they will just pull onto the sidewalk and cruise up to the lights that way. my wife regularly wishes she had a disintegration ray to use on bad drivers . . . I would start with ALL e-bikes.

Yes!!!! x1000 they are so irritating while driving to work. They don't require licences, so any Tom, Dick and Harry can own one regardless of driving abilities or knowledge of rules of the road.. They should be licensed just like a vehicle.

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I hate to say it, because I'm pretty sure we have some on here, but cyclists in general (BIcycles, not motorcycles). Around here they tend to ride in packs, and can hang up a country road for miles, not to mention the ridiculous outfits they wear. When they do the Assault on Mount Mitchell (a famous local race that starts here in town), or on a pretty fall day on the Blue Ridge Parkway, you can't get anywhere. I probably just hate 'em because they're all in much better shape than me, though...

Funny, on the other hand I kinda feel sorry for all the poor bastards riding around here on what we call "Liquor-cycles" (mopeds, scooters, etc.), just toolin' along grim-faced at 20mph in every kind of bad weather year 'round. For most of them, a DUI or similar forced them onto SR-22 insurance, which they can't afford, thus the liquor-cycles.

Having said that, I give all of them, and motorcycles, a LOT of following room and never try to pass them in a bad spot that could potentially get them killed if it goes wrong. I used to ride street bikes myself, but wouldn't do it now, in the age of texting, with a gun to my head!!

I was hurting and running late to a MD's appointment.
The "tons of fun" came breezing by and knocked me aside as I left the apartment. Then out through the door and she came to a dead stop in the middle of the sidewalk, I started around her and presto she blocked the way again. two iterations and I blew! Move aside!!!

her: "Oh...I didn't know you were there....."

Counted my blessings and moved around and to the lot.

Originally Posted by DaveW

Personally never much liked harley bikes, or anything that is intentionally loud. I do a lot of my walking in the middle of the city between buildings, and a bike like that is just a noise nuisance and people on them don't have much courtesy - they're like someone who intentionally doesn't courtesy flush in a full bathroom.

Same thing up my road - I'm in suburbia. There's hundreds of houses, and I don't care to hear slow cast-crank bikes that make more noise than power, bought by people who can't afford to buy them without making payments.

Actually, there are some car exhausts that are way louder & sound terrible yet the owner thinks it sounds cool. There's a lot of punks around here with those noise maker mufflers on their cars & it's very annoying. In the old days, people used to have "glass packs" & I didn't like those but the mufflers they have these days are outrageously annoyng.
People with loud exhausts on motorcycles want people to know they are around. They have a saying, "loud pipes save lives".