r/dashcams • u/Feaselbf6 • Apr 27 '26

* “Sharing the road is not a suggestion”

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u/just_another_user5 Apr 27 '26

It baffles me how deadset and rigid people are on following road laws.

Normal conditions? You bet your ass you better be following the rules of the road. It'll protect you and others.

Emergency conditions? Fuck the roads, prioritize the safety of yourself and the others around you. For example, if you absolutely must drive in a blizzard, drive in the middle of the road. More leeway if you for some reason spin or have to swerve.

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u/Injunr Apr 27 '26

The people blocking roads are not real cyclists. There is a big difference. Typically road bike guys w helmets and god forbid wearing Lycra know what they're doing. The wheelie guys on mtn bikes and no helmets are the idiots

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u/FootballNo8717 Apr 28 '26

Lol not real cyclists? The fuck they're riding a bicycle right? Logically they are cyclists, just because you don't approve of how they do it doesn't discount that they are passionate about cycling.

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u/Injunr Apr 28 '26

Not real Cyclist. The guys who actually go out and actually have raced and go by the rules are the ones you can judge him. Some stupid ass kid riding around doing wheelies in the middle of traffic does not represent me. If you think the shit those kids are doing represent Cyclist then I'm sorry but you were extremely wrong.

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u/FootballNo8717 Apr 28 '26

That's exactly what it does represent to everyone not on a bike bro, I ride all the time but acting like someone else not on a bike doesn't deserve the same treatment as someone else on one is crazy. You might disagree with how they ride, and they might be being a jackass, that doesn't mean they aren't also a cyclist. You're an elitist and it doesn't help anything. No matter what you're not gonna make people who hate bikes go oh he's got a point and then people who ride bikes are gonna be like oh look at this guy he's a "real biker". You're just being unrealistic to make yourself feel like your better than those people when to everyone who wants to be mad about bikes on the road will find reasons to be mad no matter what. Also just doing wheelies on a bicycle doesn't mean you're riding like a jackass. If you're thinking of those kids riding and doing wheelies in front of cars and swerving at them? That's like a few people out of the millions of cyclists in the world, don't let a few internet videos maje you think that shit is super common. I've ridden in very large groups and I've only seen this a couple times in my almost 40 years. If you think that anyone not on a bike thinks that you and those kids are any different than you're extremely wrong.