This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.
The drivers a dickhead and I was secretly hoping they’d have a wheel ripped of by a hidden kerb or something and I hope they were at the very least arrested for that, but… well, let me come back to this thought.
Those cyclists are irresponsible pricks for riding in a pack like that. They look like they’re trying to buy the own little Tour de France but that’s clearly not a rally that was organised with cooperation of ANY relevant authority - council, highways, police, whatever - and just looks to me like a bunch of yuppies that decided to take over a highway. No pilot vehicles, no safety stewards, occupying the full width of both lanes for no reason other than that they can, just a rolling roadblock of self-righteousness and no consideration for other road users.
So, as I was saying: the drivers a dickhead and I was secretly hoping they’d have a wheel ripped of by a hidden kerb or something and I hope they were at the very least arrested for that, but… maybe they had a really, really good excuse for wanting - or needing - to get somewhere with desperate urgency and simply could not afford to be delayed at all, let alone by the arbitrary whims of a bunch of hobbyists. Or maybe everybody in the video was being a selfish-righteous prick.
Roads don’t belong to cars. If each of the bikers was in their own car for a 3 mile long traffic blob for some hobby event no one would have batted an eye.
Roads don’t belong to cyclists either. They belong to everyone. Common courtesy says everyone needs to be considerate of others on public property.
Also if each of these cyclists was in a car for a 3 mile long traffic blob and did this as a regularly scheduled event, it would get shut down by the authorities right quick for disrupting traffic and lots of people would be mad about it. I know this because “car enthusiasts” do exactly that kind of thing fairly frequently and that’s the response it gets.
“share the road” mfers when its their turn to share the road
The overwhelming majority of road users have no issue letting people pass, and I don’t think the people who sit in the left-hand lane parallel with another vehicle or drive in the center of a 2 lane road for literally no reason are the ones talking about sharing the road.
Cambodian traffic law literally requires you get over and reduce speed if somebody is trying to pass, presumably to decrease cases like OP.
This isn’t Cambodia, it’s Florida.
it would get shut down by the authorities right quick for disrupting traffic and lots of people would be mad about it.
Tell that to the sports stadiums in my city.
Wait, are you trying to imply that there’s some kind of driver solidarity where they don’t care about being slowed down if it’s by another car?
They’re certainly more used to it.
Less “solidarity” and more “lack of irrational hate for the out-group,” but yes. They accept that other car traffic has the right to slow them down, but get absolutely unhinged when other types of legitimate road users do it.
So? I’m assuming you’re responding to the wrong comment or didn’t actually read mine at all.
Those cyclists are irresponsible pricks for riding in a pack like that.
I was replying to your comment.
I mean they didnt hit any of the cyclists now did they?
If someone shot a rifle past you, would you be ok because it didnt hit you?
yeah youd be shook but im built different
So you do understand that it unsettles most people, you’re just incapable of empathy?
No cus im a baller… #nofear #beastmode
Wouldn’t the road be closed for cars? At least no one died
That’s exactly what I was thinking how the fuck a car got in there the roads should be closed or marked. It seems to be a Highway to boot so there shouldn’t be a lot of options left. The guy in the car was dumb yes but the organization incompetent.
Based on other comments in here, this isn’t an organized event. It’s just a group of bikers that do this every single weekend.
So… An organized event.
Looking at their own rules:Edit: the rules they suggest: https://www.active.com/cycling/articles/10-rules-to-group-ride-like-a-pro The second one makes sense when it’s not a planned event. This video shows the complete opposite, the cyclists take up the entire road, five in width. Which looks a lot like an event, when cars wouldn’t be allowed
Yes I don’t know if this is a governmental issue or an issue with the event organizers.
Like obviously don’t drive in the median and break traffic laws, but this kind of event not being appropriately managed is going to increase the likelihood of accidents. Mostly from assholes driving poorly
Why? Bikes are completely legal for road use. Even when there’s more than one of them. Just like cars!
That’s way too many bikes to be just taking over a road like that. By blocking all traffic your going to bring out the crazies.
Yea, would be better, if everyone sat in their own car, obviously. Apart only from the pollution, space problem and traffic it would generate, less exercise for those dozends (hundred) of participants, noise it would produce and less conversation and bonding. Apart from those reasons, it would be better, because the handful of people in the cars wouldnt feel left out.
By roing anything that isn’t driving and/or shooting you bring out the crazies in america apparently
Not all of us have nothing to do and nowhere to go
Yeehaw!
How about the car driving like normal? It doesn’t matter if it’s 200 bicycles or 4 cars on the road causing the traffic jama
It’s a race, what do you expect? 1km race with 1 bike at the time?
What kind of race doesn’t close the road it’s using?
We’re missing information here. If there’s a clearly marked sign at the entrance to the road, possibly with a redirection to an alternate route, there’s no problem with this.
We aren’t missing info. It’s a big group of bikers that do this every week. Not a race. Not an organized event.
I don’t see any one with race numbers pinned to their jersey.
No sanctioned race would be through a public road without traffic control. This is not how a race is handled. Yall are too stupid to realize evertone in this video is a idiot.
That’s not how you organize a race. I helped with securing a bunch of races (including La Vuelta) and if you want to occupy the whole road you close it. You don’t just say “it was scheduled so the road is ours now”.
I mean, that’s fine, but then the road should be straight up closed, not letting you get on and have to get stuck for half a mile.
Eh, nobody was endangered. I’d criticize leaving tracks in the grass, but they’re barely there.
I have to ride on soft shoulders to get by buses, cars, and construction vehicles fairly regularly, as long as its done safely and non-destructively, I see no issue.
Until he hits a wet or soft spot and spins out into the crowd.
Now imagine one of the riders falling, and the clusterfuck that will cause.
Good thing that’s not what he was doing.
Yeah, accidents famously never happen! Why do we even waste money on guardrails and safety infrastructure? It’s never been needed because every driver always has perfect control of their vehicle.
The driver is clearly paying attention and not bothering anyone. There are infinitely more common and dangerous behaviors, such as street parking near traffic lights I will condemn before I complain about someone taking a detour to get around an obstruction.
99.99% of drivers can’t be trusted to drive on grass at speed. I don’t care how much attention they’re paying. It’s very easy to lose traction and control on a surface like grass. Frequently drivers lose control on pavement! You can be doing everything well and still end up sliding out. Unless this is a rally driver or something then no, this is not good.
Again, accidents are not on purpose. They just happen. We should be doing everything we can to keep drivers in conditions where accidents are less likely. Driving at speed on grass next to a large group of bikers that don’t have the protection of a vehicle is not that. If you can’t understand that then you’re a lost cause and you probably shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel of a vehicle.
Hot take: Accidents don’t just happen. They can be due to lack of skill, judgement, maintaince, road conditions/design, and calling car crashes accidents as if they’re beyond people’s control only serves to help the responsible parties dodge consequences of their actions.
Yes, many times they are under people’s control. It’s still accidental. Things like driving annoyed, at speed, on grass, next to a bunch of bikers, are things that are under a driver’s control to avoid doing to prevent causing an accident.
Come on now, its clearly villainous behavior.
Whoa there, your American is showing.
Tell me you’ve never left the “always the same map” area without telling me you’ve never lived outside the “always the same map” area.
In this context American isn’t a so much a geographic thing anymore. It’s a mindset.
Besides, what kind of retort is this?
How do you know I’m not in Brazil at the moment?
Because if you were you’d certainly have had toor seen other people ride on medians or sidewalks to pass dumptrucks or cars or whatever going at 5kmh and not endangere anyone.
Aha, my mistake! I see now. This would only happen in the areas erased from your map.
Or the ones that aren’t? Please elaborate.
Ok but why not block the road or have at least one lane open? No one’s using the right lane it seems.
Maybe they have to shit really bad.
I think they already pooped their pants actually
Every weekend?
From what I’ve found, yes, these larger group rides are held every weekend, in addition to much smaller ones practically every day
It is key to remember that if it was one person or a handful of people the cars would still be beeping as they passed, driving way too close, and endangering the cyclists. Safety in numbers is real and in this situation anyone sane stays behind the group of cyclists or finds another route. It really is an effective strategy.
Also, if each of those people was in a car it would be absolute gridlock. That car would not have been getting where they were going faster in that case.
Oh wow that would totally piss me off and I don’t even have a drivers license and bike everywhere, everyday.
Absolutely fantastic job being assholes and blocking everyone unnecessarily. Solid work sharing the road.
This is why they hate you. God forbid you only take up 1 of 2 lanes.
Everyone should follow the rules of the road, no exceptions. Single file, using the slow lane.
Otherwise, have your local ward/council close the road by prior arrangement.
Yeah, kinda the point of sharing. I get that drivers can be assholes but this is the same bullshit just from guys wearing funny shorts taking their exercise too seriously.
There is no law that says they have to do that. In fact I’m pretty sure Florida law says take the full lane and doesn’t specify which one(s).
God fucking forbid you actually have to leave a minute or two early to account for the, again, WIDELY KNOWN event that happens every weekend like clockwork.
Close the road properly or use1 lane instead of being dicks.
This isn’t a hard concept. Share. Didn’t your mom teach you this?
Acting like WILDLY KNOWN is an excuse or in anyway true except in your own head. Jesus my man.
PS Google doesn’t know shit about your widely well known ride. Maybe you ain’t as popular as you think you are 🤷
All this moaning and whining just to get wherever it is you’re going maybe a minute later than you expected.
Also your Google-fu is piss poor. Up your game.
Bro you got up and made a post about it and are having a hissy fit over being told it would be decent to use 1 of 2 lanes or properly close the road so it’s marked and on services like Google Maps. Insane entitlement works both ways. I’m shocked the police let it happen if it’s accurately a planned event.
I get yelled at for annoying drivers just by existing on a road as a cyclist. It doesn’t matter if I follow the rules or not. This is not the reason drivers hate cyclists.
Both communities are big enough to be filled with assholes.
If this were a critical mass instead of road cyclists a lot more people would be cheering them on.
Yeah either this thread hit a lot of non-fuckcars frontpages or the carbrained hate for middle-aged men who enjoy cycling in lycra is living rent free in the heads of a lot of anti-car cyclists.
Option 3: even people who don’t think cars should exist think we should all share the road, you gain nothing from sitting in the passing lane, so it looks like you’re just being an asshole for the hell of it.
Devils advocate theres a pregnant woman in the backseat but also a hijacker has planted a bomb in the car and if they go under 50mph the car blows up
Actually admire some one taking a mini back to its rally roots
South Parks season premiere hasn’t aged at all
South America*
This is on the north end of Key Biscayne, an island connected by bridge to Miami.
They renamed South Park to South America.
I’ve never seen a peloton just block the whole road like that. If you have to occupy all lanes you close the road. If you don’t have permission to close the road you use only one lane. It looks like the cyclists are doing this on purpose to make a point or something.
wait, what, so a couple cars in both lanes is ok but few 100 cyclists in two lanes is too much and fuck those guys ?
Swing and a miss there lol
Common sense would dictate two cars are not driving side by side for long the inner lane is reserved for faster cars and passing.
If this was not indeed a sanctioned cycling event where the road is shut down then common sense would dictate the cyclists should only be using the slow lane not both and if you want to be pedantic about following the rules there should be on bike single file in each lane with the exception of passing.
What you see here is cyclists packed like sardines together. Fine if the road is closed but Jesus Christ do they all not have judgement if the road is intentionally open?
If I’m driving or cycling my needs are the same. I need everyone else on the road to be predictable. Nothing in this video is predictable. If I had an opportunity to cycle in this event I’d nope the fuck out
Two cars going well below the speed limit and blocking both lanes like those bikes are wouldn’t be ok either. In most places a couple of cars doing that would be pulled over and ticketed.
but if its a public officially sanctioned event, which I have no idea if it is cause I seee no police oficers, then rheyre allowed to do that…
But I looked up this event on google snd I still have no idea if this is a officially sanctioned event so …
Im on nobody’s side here yet.
It looks like the cyclists are doing this on purpose to make a point or something.
Honestly if that’s the case, fair play to them. If it’s a ride for the sake of riding I agree, stocking to two abreast except when overtaking is what they should be doing. But if this is a mass rollout protest ride, with the aim being to get the council and state governments to build more dedicated bike infrastructure, fuck yeah you go guys.
You know what else would block that whole road? Two cars side by side.
Those two cars would presumably go the speed limit and not block others behind them.
That’s why if two cars drive side by side way below speed limit people get angry too. Is this really news to you?
Did you think this was a gotcha?
Have you seen how mad people get when cars drive side by side?
It’s funny how even people in cars want fewer cars on the road.
That’s because everyone slower than me is an idiot, and everyone faster is a maniac asshole. And the people that drive the same speed are going into one of those groups any second.
I don’t get that perspective. People who safely go faster or slower than you are out of your hair in seconds and cause no disruption.
Its the inconsistent/inconsiderate drivers/riders that cause constant traffic and dangerous situations.
Yeah, if someone is going faster than you, less chance that you’ll get a speeding ticket.
These people are idiots. I would never cycle with these morons. There’s too much wrong with this picture. I don’t blame the car wanting to get out of this cluster fuck and they had the courtesy of honking in a way to say passing on your left. One moron falls over and ULTRA-KILL. I don’t know what moron in this group thought that with that many riders that there shouldn’t be a spare lane to attempt to avoid catastrophic accidents.
I have a seriouis question to ask: How many oeople in that picture actually died or ended up with oermanent injuries?
A car crash with THAT many people in vehicles would MANDATORILY lead to a dozen or so deaths.
THIS on the ither hand? I would pick this over a multi vehicle car crash any second of any day.
I ride my motorbike with thousands of motorbikes and bicycles in just as dense clusters every day. Minor contact between <400lb vehicles happens constantly without injury. When someone goes down, the worst they get is a scrape.
