Crazyjeeper
NickGyver
Am I the only one who finds the Bertone profoundly ugly?
No.
Am I the only one who finds the Bertone profoundly ugly?
Am I the only one who finds the Bertone profoundly ugly?
Are bicyclists assholes to drivers everywhere, or is it just Toronto?
Are bicyclists assholes to drivers everywhere, or is it just Toronto?
Are you kidding? These assholes are a separate breed and exist everywhere unfortunately.
There's probably a few decent ones, but the majority of cyclists over here are the most self-righteous idiots ever. They want all this special treatment on the roads, and their nagging never ends. Vancouver got a greeny hippy mayor a few years ago, and he's on this bike lane building path of destruction. Several of the major roads in and leading into downtown Vancouver are having in some cases 1/3 of the traffic lanes taken away for bikers.
Why? Because apparently Copenhagen and Amsterdam are big on bikes, so we should be too! Heck, even Portland in Oregon has us beat and they are in North America... no way we can sit back and fall behind on building bike lanes that nobody uses in a city which sees rainy skies over 300 days per year.
And I don't even care that they are getting their own lanes, makes it safer for car drivers as well. It's just that they are never satisfied. They still come out and block traffic in what lanes remain open to cars on some Friday afternoons as part of Critical Mess. They will smack your car if you ever cut them off, yet they are constantly riding clear through red lights, weaving on and off pedestrian sidewalks and generally not following any of the rules of the road.
Ugh, cyclists are the worst. Well not cyclists in general... only the self-righteous ones. But they are nearly almost all self-righteous in my experience; they think they are single-handedly saving the environment and therefore they deserve all this special treatment without having to buy insurance or pay licensing fees like the rest of the people who use the roads.
Everywhere.
Yeah, that's the sort of idiocy I have to bear in downtown Toronto all the time. Bicyclists running red lights, slithering through traffic, cutting off cars, etc.
Yeah, it sucks.
Now add to that immeasurable amounts of self-righteousness and a civic government who is actually bending over backwards for the cyclists and you get my situation.
The worst part is, if you ever confront one of them about not following any rules, they will fully acknowledge that this is the case. Their excuse is that they need to act like that in order to protect themselves against cars and buses and other road hazards. Then why aren't the bike lanes doing anything to improve their attitude? They just want more, that's why.
Evel, I assume you heard about the Michael Bryant case? Don't think all the facts are out, but it seems like he got into a scuffle with a bike messenger and the messenger was so angry that he grabbed onto Bryant's Saab and was eventually pulled under and killed when he wouldn't let go after a few blocks. I've seen more than my fair share of idiot car drivers, but the cockiness that permeates almost entirely the cyclist bunch is just stupefying and probably puts more people in more danger than a dangerous car driver.
Edit: Here's an even better one. Guy's riding against heavy traffic in downtown, "just for fun" he says.
It would have damaged your door though.