What’s so special about VW drivers? Other than you, I mean.
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Cars don’t obey the law either. Not coming to a full stop at stop-signs, speeding, not using indicators, etc.
I drive a mazda. I just don’t want to be all over-generalizing and stuff and say “all german car drivers are douchebags”, when most VW drivers aren’t douchebags at all. Hence the non-VW german category.
Honestly, I don’t know enough about car brands to really say (aren’t Audi and VW related like Toyota and Lexus?), but in my mind the “german car” category is filled by Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and VW. Am I wrong?
VW Audi Porsche SEAT and Bugatti are all owned by Volkswagen Audi Group.
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Fucking Skoda drivers.
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Oooo, I knew I’d forgotten one!
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Lambo? Ducati?
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Those too. Fucking hell, they’re like the Borg for cars.
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A little late to the discussion, but the other night a peloton of spandex-clad guys rolled through my very small office park. The cacophony of clicking-ing clip-less pedals was beautiful – all 20 of these guys stopped at the stop sign.
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Shame on you. We don’t need more hate in the world.
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Bentley.
VW AG stands for ‘Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft’. No Audi in the name. They also own several other brands that are not currently in production and 20 percent or so of Suzuki. And that’s just cars. They also make motorcycles (Ducati), tractor-trailers, buses and stuff.
But cyclists do have that. They’re treated like traffic. They’re supposed to obey the traffic laws. The problems are: 1) It’s a crapshoot if the cyclist will obey the laws. 2) For all their cries of “We are traffic!”, cycling advocates all too often advocate for ignoring the laws. Case in point, the horror of having to stop at a stop sign. “We have to maintain momentum,” they say. You know what? My car also has momentum. In fact, it has quantitatively more momentum.
The bike coalitions are a bunch of dangerous hypocrites. They demand safety and respect, but then turn around and ignore traffic safety laws when it’s convenient. Is it no wonder that the California Highway Patrol has found that in most bike-car accidents, the bike is at fault? Not really.
Fuck the bikes.
I don’t think you quite understand what bicycle riding education is like. Most people are taught how to ride a bike when they are six years old, which training is dramatically different from how an adult is expected to ride a bike. Do you know of any other training, such as driver’s ed, that all cyclists are put through as a condition of them being allowed to ride a bike on the streets?
I forget where, I think somewhere in Canada, the law is to have stop
signs treated as yield and red lights as stop signs for cyclists.
They are called “Idaho Stops” and although there is certainly a lot of advocacy for them here in Toronto (in Canada), they are, alas, not legal.
As a cyclist, a pedestrian and even sometimes a driver, I too am driven mad by overly aggressive/oblivious cyclists who run reds and such. That said, I also am drivn crazy by cars who don’t look before turning right on red (risking hitting pedestrians), speed through stop signs etc etc… There are idiots on two wheels and four.
Today a cyclist rode against the light across SIX lanes of traffic without looking in any direction except forward. We all had to brake, and he never even noticed. And a block ahead of him, the road dead-ends into a divided highway that does not allow cyclists. I can only hope he’s still alive.
I think @nixiebunny has it right: people THINK they know how to ride a bike because they’ve been doing it since they were young, but they really don’t understand that riding as an adult instead of driving is not the same thing, at all.
Perhaps adding to the problem, I know plenty of people who are nervous about getting into cycling because they recognize that cycling on city streets is a skill they don’t have. By extension, the people who are cycling are over-representative of people who are pretty sure they have it all figured out.
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