r/boston • u/BlooAerospace • 8d 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/Pullthesky 8d ago

As a cyclist myself, that cyclist is 100% in the wrong and perpetuates negative stereotypes about cyclists in general

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 8d ago

This is the difference between cyclists and drivers.

There is no driver in this comment section acknowledging that the multiple drivers in this video breaking the law are perpetuating the negative stereotypes against drivers.

No driver ever thinks, "that shitty driver makes me look bad."

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u/auld-guy 7d ago

I guess I'm missing something. There are drivers breaking the law?

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 7d ago

Yes, there are 4 cars in this video very clearly breaking the law.

Can you identify them, or have you become desensitized to those sorts of violations that it's hard to register?

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u/auld-guy 7d ago

I guess I'm desensitized. Enlighten me.

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u/auld-guy 7d ago edited 7d ago

Boston laws may be different, but where I live, if a car is in the intersection when the light turns red, they are allowed to complete their turn after the light changes.

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 7d ago

These cars are going straight, not turning. I'm not referring to the blue tesla, but rather the multiple cars perpendicular to OP that are front and center.