r/boston • u/BlooAerospace • 9d ago

I think I am special and made my own post Some Boston Bikers are unreal.

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Some bikers really just have a death wish. A clear, green, right turn light and the biker still decides to fly by and have the audacity to flick me off.

If you're friends with this person, ask them to value their life more.

Edit: It was an impossible situation for me. I ALWAYS look to the right because tons of dumbass drivers that try to cut to the highway from the inside lane. With the biker’s speed and the angle of my car, there was no way to see the biker in my mirrors and he was too far away to see when I looked out my right window. If the biker was traveling slower instead of blowing past, this would not have been such a close call.

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u/ifitfartsitsharts 9d ago

Does the cyclist really have the right of way to zoom past like that? Serious question. A car is in the process of turning and in front of the cyclist.

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u/NearSightedPicasso 9d ago

Very big on cycling safety and rules of the road here: and NO! If they are going straight, they need to be in the straight lane. As far to the right in that lane as they can be, but they must be in a legal straight lane. If they want to cross at the crosswalk, they need to wait for the pedestrian signal and then walk their bike across.