/n/ — Why are cyclists hated so much?

Generally we're not, but a small, vocal minority of extremely angry people are obsessed with us to the point of mental illness. Some people have the energy to push back, some make a hobby of it, but most people just can't be bothered, so the angry karens are always going to be there. You might say we're like the transgenders of the road. Not sure who our JK Rowling is. Maybe that guy from Top Gear?

>>2072600
oh, also the vegan-like holier-than-though attitude on top of all that.

idk but I unapologetically ride like a fucking mega cunt and if someone has a problem with it, oh what a surprise they dont wanna get out of their car and talk about it they wanna go home and post about it on social media
>if i encountered u i would run u over or shoot u
Okay. hasn’t happened yet i dont think you would do shit

>>2072600
>even more special treatment than they already receive
The road system is extremely subsidized and built in favor of cars. Even in the Netherlands. Whenever a city tries to shift this balance slightly from extreme subsidization to merely massive subsidization, cager go fucking apeshit.

>>2072603
>I unapologetically ride like a fucking mega cunt
You're the reason we can't have nice things

>>2072623
actually not true but alright you can be a pick me cyclist if you want

>>2072623
>>2072624
also guarantee you don’t consider things like safe road positioning around blind corners to prevent being slammed into from behind u probably just ride in the gutter like a beta and wonder why you get close passed, people cant see you until its too late
>teehee im not like the other cyclists
Ur worse get the fuck out of the inside of the blind corners, i bet you stop at roundabouts and clog that shit up 5x longer than you should while you try to get back on your bike and you think you are being “one of the good ones”
Confident borderline aggressive riding is safe riding i do not give a fuck if some alcoholic honks his horn at me fuck him and fuck you stay in the bike lane you fucking femboy

>>2072626
This, also the more to the right of the curb you ride the more likely people are to pass you dangerously. Yeah sorry bro but I'm gonna leave at least 4 ft between my squishy body and a potentially opening car door, guess you're just gonna have to change lanes to overtake me

>>2072626
>I ride like a mega cunt
>Actually I ride very safe
Lmao triggered much. What you described isn't riding like a cunt it's riding normally. Riding like a cunt is burning every red every stop and hopping onto busy sidewalks. Pull the seatpost out of your ass lmao you cry baby hahahahahaha

>>2072628
He's sort of right though, women really do not like the "male" style of riding that's why they're always getting killed by box trucks when men get in front aggressively instead of timidly hanging out in the kill zone. But this is seen as "unfair" or "toxic masculinity" so there will always be some stigma attached to proper defensive riding. Same reason people who don't think of bike lanes as a panacea are always getting called toxic elite sports cyclists.

>>2072629
Buddy I'm not arguing with him if he's right. I said that's just normal cycling. You say you ride like a mega cunt I assume you ride like a new york bike courrier with a deathwish.

>>2072623
(passive) aggressive drivers will harass you no matter what kind of vehicle you're using. Big difference here is that are you are far more likely to come into contact with such people when you're travelling at 25 kph

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>>2072630
There are many definitions of "normal cycling". I ride according to my ideas of safety, not about what will offend people or make me "one of the good ones". My ideas about what's safe and reasonable are based on my local road conditions. Other norms prevail in areas with other road conditions.

Turn-related practices are a good example of this. Before we even get into what bicycles should do, cars and trucks are expected to do different things depending on the country. And then of course, there's us. We are usually an afterthought at best. The bicycle is sometimes expected to take the outer lane, sometimes the inner lane, sometimes take the crosswalk and only pay attention to pedestrian walk/don't walk signs. Sometimes there are no rules or expectations on anyone's mind because bicycles are for children and children should not be playing in traffic.

So if following your local customs and regulations puts you at higher risk, the rational choice is to ride like a "mega cunt" and disregard optics, because being safe is better than looking like a nice guy. On the other hand, if your local conditions make it so that you're safest doing "nice guy" riding, then there is no need to act like a "mega cunt".

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>>2072632
Oops wrong pic sorry. That one was meant for my earlier post.

>>2072628
>>2072630
i mean i do kinda ride like a cunt still, this is normal riding true but it is considered bad by car people, although i still DO ride like a cunt by that I just mean blowing reds and hoping for the best and disregarding speed limits, nice downhill and im pinning it even if its a 20kmh only residential, urban “shared path” type of shit yeah i fuckin fly past peds unless theres a dog or small child im definitely a cunt but its funny that despite every awful thing i do its still safer than riding like a bitch. if im going to be viewed as evil anyway for not wanted to ride in the gutter i might as well do this shit no?
i also angle my 1000lumen light slightly upwards i am not sorry

>>2072634
>i also angle my 1000lumen light slightly upwards i am not sorry
Literally no good reason to do this except be a dumb shitbag.

>>2072634
Lumenchads reporting in. My light is to prevent doorings and right hooks. It needs to be and is visible in the rear view mirror. It cannot be ignored. If you find yourself blinded it's because you're trying to salmon up a one-way street like an asshole, so any issue with my light is your problem not mine.

>>2072631
>25
>kph

maybe it's those stupid hats? I mean you look like an alien. An inferior other. Why do cycle fags insist on wearing those?

>>2072644
You guys get mad at us if we don't wear a foam hat. Then you get mad at us if we do. So it's probably not the hats.

>>2072635
>except
So you do admit that it is a good reason?

>>2072634
unironically considering buying a ps3 for 5$ just to harvest the Blu-Ray Laser to shine directly at F-150 owners, Jeep owners, joggers with headlamps, dentists with upward-facing 99999 lumen LED lights, and that one tranny in town who actually owns an Electra™ Townie®

>>2072633
>>2072632
Umm literally just stop being in the fucking road? Roads are for cars, not your gay commie 15 minute city cope dilation.

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If it's a one-lane road I will yield to car traffic behind me as much as possible
but if I'm on a two-lane road I simply do not give a fuck. If you're a motorist who is triggered by how slow I'm going then just move over to the fast lane

>>2072607
>The road system is extremely subsidized and built in favor of cars.
yes, because cars actually offer extensive strategic and social benefits, unlike scrappy little toys for manchildren to virtue signal with.

>>2072676
Basado.

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>>2072650
Made me laugh fuck you lmao. Dumb and dumber lookin ass.

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>>2072585 (OP)
>act like fuckwits
>dress like fuckwits
>takes non motorised vehicles onto roadways which are vital for life and safety
>get aggressive when criticised for poor road behaviour
>refuse to use cycling infrastructure, regularly choosing to block roads when there is an adjacent cycle path
>constantly break road rules
>don't pay rego or CTP insurance but believe they're equally entitled to roads
>chooses to put themselves in suicidal danger then takes it out on road users
>wear next to no safety gear
>constantly favoured by homosexual lawmakers

There is something mentally wrong with adults who ride bikes. If your city has dedicated cycle infrastructure and you can commute without taking your push bike onto a road with 4 tonne cars going 60-100km/h. Fine. But that's basically never the case so you're choosing to be a problem.

If you want to help congestion get a motorbike. If you want the two wheel experience on roads get a motorbike. Otherwise get your fucking toy off the road.

If you get easily angry at someone riding a bicycle or going for a walk as you're driving down the road, then maybe you shouldn't be driving. You have a bigger problem.

>>2072681
Bicycle and walk are not the same. Riding your bike on the road is not the same as a pedestrian on a footpath.

>>2072683
Regardless, you present yourself as a hazard to society when you oonga-boonga behind the wheel like a spastic chimp all because you're too retarded to remember you can always go around and magically makes your day ruined.
Hang up the driver's license before you end up killing someone over your retarded road raging anger issues.

>>2072680
you forgot
>scream murder when a driver so much as takes a breath in your direction, insist they are trying to kill you whenever they take actions to avoid a collision as a result of you breaking the rules or interfering with traffic

>>2072681
if you get easily scared of being in the vincinity of road vehicles moving at speed then maybe you shouldn't be on the road, just saying.

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Cyclist hate is so forced.

>>2072695
It's similar to hating pizza with pineapples (knowing that no hawaiian will attack you over it) or making muh attack helicopter jokes (knowing that no tumblrinas from 2009 will come after you). Easy way for spinless NPCs to tilt at a windmill and feel tough.

>>2072676
>extensive strategic and social benefits
40,000 road deaths a year, an enormous amount of noise and pollution, as well as destroying the environment where people live both directly and indirectly? Wow sounds great!

>>2072697
hawaiian pizza is actually canadian though. no hawaiian eats that shit

>>2072698
yes, our industrial society has its costs as it allows neet vermin like you to mooch off of others' work while being fed, clothed and safe at your parents' house instead of being busy begging for food on the street, which is rather unfortunate.

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>>2072695
Cyclist grievances are so forced.

>>2072742
Kind of wild seeing uncle ted's words being appropriated by NPC cageoids whose greatest aspiration is to lift their pickup so they can coal 50 year old men on cervelos

>>2072743
Nice bogeyman. But the reason is that addressing cyclist grievances is a win for drivers, businesses, everyone. Sorry Ivan, but it's bipartisan.

>>2072585 (OP)
hating is a natural state of existence.

>>2072747
>bipartisan

Sad when Kevin Teshaywn Dequandre Ramirez Jr. can't fathom more than two parties

>>2072745
>NPC cageoids
cyclist trannies talking about appropriation while appropriating memes to further their toothless buzzwords will never stop being funny to me

>>2072747
>addressing cyclist grievances is a win for drivers, businesses, everyone
don't you complain about how banning cars and lynching drivers over looking at you wrong is not enough and you'll still break the traffic rules and behave like vermin out of spite in every thread?

I find it fuckin funny that.. ok some of you are just trolling but there are genuinely people on this board who fucking hate bikes. why are you here then… oh you like trains?? Thats real cute buddy

>>2072754
It's the airplane people, those guys are giga chuds. Look up ATC hot mic recordings on youtube, these guys will say things that would make the most jaded /pol/tard blush

>>2072755
Nah that makes sense all these pilot wannabes and shit, assmad they are not gonna be able to touch a plane.. unless they are a nepobaby and that usually comes with just about the same attitude

>>2072745
So which is it? Are we all internet warriors who do nothing but sit quietly making joked about attack helicopters away from your presence or mean evil chuds rolling coal on that elusive 50 year old road cyclist?

>>2072755
dont look at the maritime threads

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I like how every single GCN video has a car permanently stuck behind him

>>2072796
it's stuck behind the filming car

>>2072755
wtf. i looked one up and he called me, personally, a nigger. he even said where i live. he aint wrong but who tf did i wrong so deeply who is an ATC??

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cyclists don't kneel
bike gets in the way

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>>2072585 (OP)
>those stupid selfish cyclists disrupting traffic
Obey rules of the road and you'll be OK.
Notice, I don't say "laws" because with sufficient political sympathies, cyclist organizations have succeeded in having some of the dumbest rights written into traffic laws.

>advocate for bike lanes so everyone gets their way
The biggest lobby against bike lanes is the John Forrester crowd. Pic related.

>>2072825
>cyclists don't kneel
Now, change this to automobiles and train crossings. And explain why the logic should be any different.

>>2072836
because a car doesn't take several miles to come to a dead stop

>>2072825
this is the gayest shit ever

>>2072585 (OP)
Everyone is an asshole (>>2072748), with zero objectivity.

>>2072601
I love the focus on how someone feels about themselves more than if they have a right to feel it. True girl brain.

>>2072676
>>2072677
>strategic
>social
>"benefits"
Destroying the world and being the biggest suckers who've ever lived.