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  • Doctor PhibesD Online
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    Doctor Phibes
    wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
    #2

    As a board certified MAMIL, I could post every time a car driver has acted like a complete twat when I'm cycling, but it happens so often it would become uninteresting.

    But you're right, there are some knobhead cyclists out there.

    I was only joking

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      Copper
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      #3

      Run 'em down, they don't belong.

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      • Doctor PhibesD Doctor Phibes

        As a board certified MAMIL, I could post every time a car driver has acted like a complete twat when I'm cycling, but it happens so often it would become uninteresting.

        But you're right, there are some knobhead cyclists out there.

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        George K
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        #4

        @Doctor-Phibes said in MAMIL:

        As a board certified MAMIL, I could post every time a car driver has acted like a complete twat when I'm cycling, but it happens so often it would become uninteresting.

        But you're right, there are some knobhead cyclists out there.

        Yeah, there are twats everywhere (I love how you use that word). This, however, was twatteriffic, in addition to being illegal (slower traffic to the right, and all that).

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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        • Doctor PhibesD Online
          Doctor PhibesD Online
          Doctor Phibes
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          #5

          With all due respect to the members here who own Audi's...

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          I was only joking

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          • George KG Offline
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            George K
            wrote on last edited by
            #6

            With all due respect to the members here who don't know how to post a picture or use an apostrophe...

            Screen Shot 2020-08-05 at 4.20.38 PM.png

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • markM Offline
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              mark
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              #7

              You would never catch me doing something like that on a bike. Good way to get run over. lol

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              • MikM Offline
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                Mik
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                #8

                Yep. You are the most vulnerable thing on the road and your body will not even put a ding in someone's car. Act accordingly.

                “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                • jon-nycJ Online
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                  wrote on last edited by
                  #9

                  Bicyclists tend to think they are granted optionality on traffic laws. The ones that convenience them apply, those that don’t, do not.

                  Apparently there are exceptions but I’ve never seen them in the US anyway.

                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                  • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                    Bicyclists tend to think they are granted optionality on traffic laws. The ones that convenience them apply, those that don’t, do not.

                    Apparently there are exceptions but I’ve never seen them in the US anyway.

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                    wrote on last edited by Aqua Letifer
                    #10

                    @jon-nyc said in MAMIL:

                    Bicyclists tend to think they are granted optionality on traffic laws. The ones that convenience them apply, those that don’t, do not.

                    Apparently there are exceptions but I’ve never seen them in the US anyway.

                    That's very true. Either that or you get the rules lawyer like in George's example. That's both legal and dickish in many states.

                    As for me, I've said many times that I break the shit out of traffic laws on my bike in the interest of safety. If running a red means getting away from a string of cars I'd otherwise hold up once the light changes, you bet your ass I'm going to run it. I'll even pass a long line of stopped cars to do so if I think the move will get me away from them after the change. Can't have it both ways, drivers.

                    Please love yourself.

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                    • George KG George K

                      With all due respect to the members here who don't know how to post a picture or use an apostrophe...

                      Screen Shot 2020-08-05 at 4.20.38 PM.png

                      Doctor PhibesD Online
                      Doctor PhibesD Online
                      Doctor Phibes
                      wrote on last edited by
                      #11

                      @George-K said in MAMIL:

                      With all due respect to the members here who don't know how to post a picture or use an apostrophe...

                      Screen Shot 2020-08-05 at 4.20.38 PM.png

                      That's odd, it shows up for me on my other computer.

                      I was only joking

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                      • RainmanR Offline
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                        #12

                        what picture?
                        I don't see one, just a little blue square below the "With all due respect to the members here who own Audi's..."

                        The little blue square has a question mark in it.

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