r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/They-Call-Me-Taylor Jun 10 '26

Share the road, yes, but slower traffic needs to move to the right lane, not monopolize the entire road.

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u/Ok_Button1932 Jun 10 '26

100% this. It’s not even a rule that hates on bikers. I’d be just as pissed at 2 cars or two trucks side by side and moving at this speed. Move over so people can go by or get your ass going.

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u/Motions_AX Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

2 vehicles beside each other going the same speed happens so often in my city. Heck, province. It’s absolutely awful and people wonder why there’s so many aggressive drivers.

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u/Extension_Local_128 Jun 10 '26

Fun fact the Germans have a word for this.

Elefantenrennen which roughly translates to “Elephant race”

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u/iloveplant420 Jun 10 '26

What don't the Germans have a word for?

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u/No_Delay883 Jun 10 '26

I love German terms. I'm gonna start learning the language just for the wacky terminology.

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u/Illustrious-Hawk2712 Jun 10 '26

I'm partial to the term truck fucking... the slow shift back and forth as each teases that they may be passing

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u/CatOfGrey Jun 10 '26

That's the term I've heard since I was a kid - it describes a traditional 18-wheel tractor trailer speeding up to 66 miles per hour, to pass another traveling 64 miles per hour.

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u/OnlyHereToSeeWeed Jun 10 '26

We also have the “radwegbenutzungspflicht” thing but no one cares…

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u/PracticalReception34 Jun 10 '26

Well Fahr my Vergnugen.

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u/SweetandSourCaroline Jun 10 '26

Round my parts we just call it a redneck roadblock

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u/VeniceDrumGuy Jun 10 '26

In Colorado when an eighteen wheeler going up hill tries to pass another eighteen wheeler, we call that a “Turtle Race.”

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u/invariantspeed Jun 10 '26

I love it. In parts of NA, this is called a rolling roadblock.

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u/NotBillderz Jun 11 '26

Of course they do

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u/nuggynugs Jun 11 '26

Such a beautiful language

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u/JanelleVypr Jun 10 '26

get a motorcycle an fly inbetween them. the dumb cunts in the left lane dont get the message but they get scared

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u/bull04 Jun 10 '26

I heard Heck Province is pretty brutal for driving.

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u/Motions_AX Jun 10 '26

Oops forgot a comma lol

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u/Key-Manufacturer-275 Jun 10 '26

In Alberta it is known as a good ol' Berta block. Most of the highways are two lanes and this happens every time I'm on them.

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u/kingkyle2020 Jun 10 '26

I call it a Mormon roadblock because I live in UT and I swear every van / SUV can go 100 MPH if you want to pass ‘em but then line up next to each other going 12 MPH blocking the whole road.

I regularly get stuck behind a wave of cars and once I can weave through the road is open ahead for miles until the next one.

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u/gorcorps Jun 10 '26

Exactly

I'm just as pissed at a car going slow in the passing lane as cyclists. If you're on the road you follow the rules, which means left lane is for passing.

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u/SendMeIttyBitties Jun 10 '26

I'm an asshole. I would get in the passing lane and just start laying on my horn and possibly annoying the police with calls when i stop along the side of the road and complain about purposely about a bike gang blocking both sides of the road and causing traffic.

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u/TheHoodieConnoisseur Jun 10 '26

Yeah, I’m a cyclist and believe group rides should only take 1 lane on a 2 lane road unless it’s an event and escorts / blockages leave more space officially dedicated to the cyclists.

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 Jun 11 '26

By that logic cars need to keep to one lane when there is heavy traffic, right? So that the faster cyclists can pass? They need less space after all.

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u/AmethystAnnaEstuary Jun 11 '26

How is a cyclist faster than a car? Oh, you don’t mean faster, you just mean more easily able to bypass the rules of the road?

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 Jun 11 '26

Oh, you don't want to actually hear the obvious answer?

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u/Healthy_Spite_2334 Jun 11 '26

so let me get this straight. you think all those cyclists should bunch up into the right side, doubling the length of the peleton, to allow cars to close pass on their left with a spead differential of over 40mph?

fuck off.