Bikers that always cut to the front of the line, repeatedly....

I am always getting quite annoyed of those fellow bikers, whom ride much slower than you, get in front of you at intersections. This is particularly bad on the diagonal roads where they will try to shortcut the light by pulling half way across it. 

Don't these guys have a clue after the 5th or 6th time that I pass them before they even finish getting across the intersection? It's not like this "head start" is really getting them up to speed any quicker. Most of the time they are just causing a potential conflict as I pass them....

I notice that it usually are the ones that are riding fixed gear... 

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Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 22, 2013 at 10:16pm

h' 1.0 said:

I find the notion that one is less safe riding on the sidewalk than in the street with cars unlikely.

OTOH, the people on the sidewalk are probably less safe with bike traffic on the sidewalk than without it.

Permalink Reply by Will on August 23, 2013 at 1:47am

I have more important things to worry about. And since when do we call cyclists "bikers"?

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on August 23, 2013 at 1:48am
Since always.

Will said:

I have more important things to worry about. And since when do we call cyclists "bikers"?

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 23, 2013 at 2:18am

I grew up thinking that "bikers" rode motorcycles and "bikies" rode bicycles.  Applying the term "bikers" to cyclists seems weird to me.

Permalink Reply by daWillinChi on August 23, 2013 at 2:34am

This has been discussed before. Call it whatever you want!

We ride bicycles. Therefore, those are bikes, and we are cyclists. Since we own bikes, we are bikers.

Motorcycles, on the other hand, the riders should also be cyclists and also motorists. 

Which actually came first? Bicycles (1860)? Motorcycles (1867)? Since Motorcycles (IMHO) were based off bicycles, can then their riders also be called bikers?

The term "bikers" were coined when motorcycle gangs gained notoriety. You want to call yourselves bikers for riding bicycles? By all means, do it!

But, "bikies"? 

Permalink Reply by Tim S on August 23, 2013 at 2:51am

I don't see the rampant blowing of red lights nearly as much as I used too. You must be a super quick rider if you can catch cyclists that blow off red lights and pass them again.  

Permalink Reply by David Barish on August 23, 2013 at 2:57am

I don't usually find it with a rider on a fixie. Its the bro with the backwards Cubs hat and earphones, The Bartmans of the road. It usually does not last for more than a couple  lights. Eventually either I will be faster than that guy or he will cut a light while I wait and we will establish enough separation for the problem to evaporate. The problem is often heightened by me seeing a half block away that there will be a red and that I will have to stop. I usually stop pedaling and coast to the stop.  That guy will always pass me.

Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on August 23, 2013 at 3:57am

I have never witnessed anyone say the word "bikies" before this moment. 

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

I grew up thinking that "bikers" rode motorcycles and "bikies" rode bicycles.  Applying the term "bikers" to cyclists seems weird to me.

Permalink Reply by Davo on August 23, 2013 at 3:59am

sounds like a british slang word.



Peenworm "8 mile" Grubologist said:

I have never witnessed anyone say the word "bikies" before this moment. 

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

I grew up thinking that "bikers" rode motorcycles and "bikies" rode bicycles.  Applying the term "bikers" to cyclists seems weird to me.

Permalink Reply by Adam Herstein on August 23, 2013 at 4:05am

Sounds like a derogatory, condecending term a certain "journalist" would use.

Peenworm "8 mile" Grubologist said:

I have never witnessed anyone say the word "bikies" before this moment. 

Skip Montanaro 12mi said:

I grew up thinking that "bikers" rode motorcycles and "bikies" rode bicycles.  Applying the term "bikers" to cyclists seems weird to me.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on August 23, 2013 at 4:07am



Peenworm "8 mile" Grubologist said:

I have never witnessed anyone say the word "bikies" before this moment. 

Learned when I started serious cycling as an undergrad at UCLA in the 70s.  So, it could be a generational thing, a California thing, or a serious cyclist sort of thing, depends on how we differ along those axes. :-)

Permalink Reply by Scott on August 23, 2013 at 4:16am

Bikers... bikies....  I think everyone thinks my name is "Get off the road!"

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