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American Drivers Think Speeding Is Okay Because Everyone Else Is Doing It (www.jalopnik.com)
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What's a little extra 5 or 10 mph on the clock?

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[–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Lol how wrong can you be, if you are fraction slower than the person behind you (type of vehicle doesn't matter) you get cussed out in America. I literally was going 20 mph up a hill with an ebike and some gobsmacked asshole has the nerve to tell me to yield to cars behind me because according to him I don't have a "real" ebike 😤🥱. This happens everywhere in my city, jokes on them I don't need to go 60 mph to get to my job in less than 10 min, sounds like poor planning on drivers end to live so far away and have the audacity to tell locals not to use our roads.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Oof that's rough. I do pull over to the side & let cars pass when I ride in the 35mph road on the way to work (there is a sidewalk I can use, it's allowed but sometimes there are pedestrians using it or work trucks parked over the entire sidewalk -fuck those guys in particular, then I use the road) but once on a different 35 with no good sidewalk I had a Prius follow slowly and at a safe distance for so so far even though there was plenty of room to pass. Honestly I can get to 35 on the electric bike but don't want the cops to know, and it wouldn't help because as the whole point of this thread is - on the road to work it's smooth and easy so people do 45.

    Yeah, technically I have the same right to be in the car road, there is no bike lane or path, but it's not something I'm willing to die for, I am slower traffic and keep right. There are lights so if I walk it across an intersection and wait I can get a very light traffic situation for a couple of blocks.

    Wrote the city to complain about the road though, to ask them to convert it like they did some of the other similar sized ones, bike lanes, middle turn lane.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    If someone’s willing to stay behind you that long, they’re not the car to worry about. They have patience and caution.

    This might be me. We have a lot of narrow and winding roads where it’s really not safe for me to give the clearance you deserve. But waiting another 30 seconds really doesn’t impact me. Most drivers are more aggressive about passing cyclists

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