Now do one for me on my bike and a tourist on their rented e-bike. It should be legal to lance them
From my experience in the UK, they don't have a clue how to cycle safely. No awareness of what's going on around them, weaving along and between the pavement/cycle lane/car lane at random, cycling as many abreast as can fit on the path expecting everyone else to make room for them, suddenly stopping in the middle of the path to look at their phone - basically, people who think of it as an alternative form of pedestrianism rather than controlling a moving vehicle. Things that would be inconvenient as a pedestrian become an active danger on a road or cycle path.
I live in the city and my folks live in fairly nearby burbs, pretty much just over the limit of what you'd call city but they do most of their shopping and stuff further away from the city in waaaaaay more car oriented shitty stroads. I can't think of the last time they've picked me up here and he hasn't gotten mad at bikers being entirely normal. He gets mad at people for biking on sidewalks when he's driving, most recently he was mad someone biked through an empty crosswalk instead of getting off and walking it across and then resuming biking despite it not affecting him in any way. Drivers think that needing to look out for people is the fault of the pedestrian or biker they might kill. In his mind everyone should only travel by car so he doesn't risk killing someone, which is way more of a burden than dying. The entire burden of traffic safety is shouldered on the victims and it's insane.
At first I could tell if this was a “drivers hate everyone who isn’t a driver” post or “adults hate it when children exist in public” post
I used to ride a bicycle between multiple jobs and college. This is a very real experience.
Taking my son out for some ice cream and on the way back home I let him get behind the wheel and teach him how to hit and run pedestrians.
Go ahead, try riding a bike in the city dumb fuck
You've said you don't ride or drive elsewhere, you know absolutely nothing about this, so telling you to go get some experience and that you're a dumb fuck are both justified
then what do you have got to contribute to the conversation except your vibes and feelings?
