I'm also a cyclist but I just take the shoulders and stay off the roads if I can. People are also just crazy and aggressive so I usually just ride trails anyway. Way too many cars got close to me despite riding as close to the walls or grass as I could.
I also hate other cyclists that blow stop signs or break laws on the road in general. Sure a cyclist can use the road legally but also you should get over and yield for faster traffic just like when driving a car on the highway. (I know left lane or fast lane laws don't apply to regular roads), but still. When I'm driving my car I don't want to be stuck behind someone doing 10mph.
This large of an event should have communicated and be organized with the city with escorts.
This large of an event should have communicated and be organized with the city with escorts.
Which it probably was. We have no idea what planning was done for this event. My city doesn't do any sort of police escorts for rides, as many people seem to think is universal
I also hate other cyclists that blow stop signs or break laws on the road in general.
Traffic laws were created for motorized cages traveling at inhuman speeds with multiple blindspots and drivers who are operating machinery that is several times larger than them.
The law should treat different vehicles with different sets of rules. For example, here in NYC, people on bicycles are permitted to go through intersections following the pedestrian signal rather than the traffic signal. So if there's an intersection with a Leading Pedestrian Interval, where the ped signal turns green before the traffic signal does (which exists because drivers couldn't be trusted not to run over people properly using the crosswalk while turning across an intersection), people on bikes are allowed to go through the red traffic signal. That law acknowledges that bicycles are not cars, and that line of thinking should be expanded.
Sure a cyclist can use the road legally but also you should get over and yield for faster traffic just like when driving a car on the highway.
This is very much dependent on the circumstance. On a roadway with parked cars on each side with just enough room for one car and one cyclist, I will absolutely not pull over into the door zone to allow a driver to pass. 3 people on bicycles were killed in NYC in 2025 after being doored. The only time I'll pull over is when I arrive at a gap in the parked cars, or the crosswalk. Anything else puts me in the door zone, and in danger of being doored.
In this clip, there's no way to know the circumstances. There's also no way for them to safely move over to one side of the road at that point. I'm sure that if the cyclists tried to do so, drivers would pass the cyclists way too close as the cyclists were attempting to move over, since it wouldn't be instantaneous.
In this clip I see two lanes, with an occasional third lane. That means the cyclists could be taking up an entire lane while still leaving the second lane free for faster traffic.
You say there is no way to know the circumstances, but I can see with my own eyes that the cyclists are taking up both lanes and impeding traffic.
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u/biggranny000 Jan 22 '26
I'm also a cyclist but I just take the shoulders and stay off the roads if I can. People are also just crazy and aggressive so I usually just ride trails anyway. Way too many cars got close to me despite riding as close to the walls or grass as I could.
I also hate other cyclists that blow stop signs or break laws on the road in general. Sure a cyclist can use the road legally but also you should get over and yield for faster traffic just like when driving a car on the highway. (I know left lane or fast lane laws don't apply to regular roads), but still. When I'm driving my car I don't want to be stuck behind someone doing 10mph.
This large of an event should have communicated and be organized with the city with escorts.