Get ticket for not riding in bike lane - Crash into things in the bike lane!

Here is some civil disobedience that anyone should be able to get behind. Some _____ cop tickets a guy $50 for not riding in a bike lane, while it's pouring rain no less, so he makes it his mission to ride in the bike lane from now on.

This includes crashing into a good number of things, making for good humour, but the most epic end to his little scheme is the final cut when he plows into a police car. Too bad he doesn't have a concrete brick between the handle bars!



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I remember watching this when it came out. My first thought was that isn't it illegal to block bike lanes? Why weren't the people blocking them ticketed? Perhaps the russian approach of driving over the wrongly parked cars with a tank would be effective?

reply to post by boncho


We have a "bike lane" on our street. I often wonder how in the heck it could be used by cyclists because of all the overgrown weeds, trash, and even fallen trees covering them.

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lmao..reminded me of me.Over here we can't ride on the side walks or at night without a light.So I leave the pub a couple weeks ago with a bic lighter in one hand wobbling down the street on my cycle and get a fine(35$)...cop says,walk it.So I get on the side walk and start riding and start crashing into trash cans.20 minutes later,the same cop gives me another 35 dollar fine for riding on the sidewalk 2 doors down from my house...I was a furious,but I guess I deserved it.

And the truck makes a turn w/out the use of a turn indicator. Again, this is some badge heavy Turd that spends too much time at the PD (station ranger) kissing a$$ of the admin. getting coffee w/the Lt. and then listen as the admin. moan about $$$ so BadgeHeavy goes out and tries to please admin. by being the biggest dickhead You can fit into a Sam Browne™

Deliberately crashing into things, whether they are clearly marked hazards or police cars
clearly on police business
(note the second cruiser parked in front of the one he hit in the video) will not get his $50 back. It will only get him charged for reckless driving. He could seriously injure himself. This video will only prevent him from winning any lawsuit he may make if he gets hurt.

The fact of the matter is that... It's not illegal to not ride in a designated bike lane.

Beartracker16
Deliberately crashing into things, whether they are clearly marked hazards or police cars
clearly on police business
(note the second cruiser parked in front of the one he hit in the video) will not get his $50 back. It will only get him charged for reckless driving. He could seriously injure himself. This video will only prevent him from winning any lawsuit he may make if he gets hurt.

He was told to ride in the bike lane. He rode in the bike lane. He was not told he could maneuver in and out of the bike lane to avoid objects, for all we know he has slow response time.

I don't really care what some asshat prosecutor would try and pull in court, if I was a lawyer I'd take the man's case probono and mount a defence equal to the OJ trial.

Cop can shove his $50 ticket ________. Ill stop now before I say something unpleasant.

Some people ride bikes because they can't afford cars, some to leave less of an impact on the environment, just let the damn people enjoy their peddles and slower walk of life, dear god.

At least that is a city that has Bike Lanes. I wish they all did. Instead, we get bike riders who have this silly delusion that their peddle power can somehow match the horsepower of a motor vehicle. Err.. It can't.. Won't...and there are far less painful ways of committing suicide than riding bicycles in real traffic lanes.

Bikes in traffic lanes is one of my deepest pet peeves.. I wish all cities had the lanes. Heck, ours didn't even figure sidewalks were important enough to include on many major avenues, let alone anywhere else. It's like a wild game of bike polo and no cars are wanting to play at some times of the year. (Oh.. one of the joys of winter. no bikes in traffic. lol)

That's dedication.
He had to have hurt himself doing a fe w of those crashes.
I remember well suddenly being ejected over my handlebars and it was not pleasant in the least.
He's on the cause of right and right of way.
Give the poor man his $50 back and start going after the biker clubs that are turning city streets in to a zoo.

Bike lanes in the cities are a joke anyway, in Philly everyone parks their cars in them. Now I'm down in Florida where the bike lanes end halfway down the street and there are no side walks because no one down here even knows what walking is.
One minute you're cycling down the bike lane and whoosh! it vanishes and leaves you exposed to all the insane Florida drivers shouting insults at you from their pick up trucks...

I have been riding a bicycle for nearly my whole life, yesterday I needed some fuel line for a motorcycle I was rebuilding for someone and rode 20 miles one way to get it just so I could roll a bit of exercise into my day....

Florida, where I lived for eight years, is an awesome place to ride a bicycle. The weather is good for outdoor activity for nearly the entire year, it's flat, and if one gets away from the coast it is actually kind of a peaceful place to roll around.

I saw some of the least maintained bicycle (pretty much everything there is run down away from the touristy areas) lanes I have ever seen there though, if there were any at all... very little thought was given to anything but cars there, even the bus system pretty much sucks, and the drivers are some of the very worst I have ever seen, and they aren't all tourists like the redneck dummies down there claim they are....

Even the sidewalks are so poorly thought out as to be nearly impassable in many places, in one area there is a wall on one side, and a telephone pole on the other with an area to pass so narrow between that I had to walk my bicycle to pass between, right along a really busy road that is very dangerous to ride on. Never mind wheelchair and disabled curbs....Instead of placing the sidewalk further in from the road, there are light poles placed directly onto the sidewalk, electronics shelters too, which make it nearly impossible for two pedestrians to pass, let alone a bicycle or wheelchair to go through.

It took me months to find a safe route without tons of dangerous conflicts and obstacles for the ride to work every day, in a word, it was "ridiculous".

I would think that those who plan these streets and so on would realize how much revenue they could reel in by making a place with weather good enough for cycling all year safe enough not to be right up at number 1 or number 2 in bicycling fatalities every year since forever.

I'm moving back down to Florida really soon, maybe I will get involved in that planning somehow, if the "good old fellas" who think golfing is anything resembling exercise will hear me.

Nah....

MyHappyDogShiner
I have been riding a bicycle for nearly my whole life, yesterday I needed some fuel line for a motorcycle I was rebuilding for someone and rode 20 miles one way to get it just so I could roll a bit of exercise into my day....

Florida, where I lived for eight years, is an awesome place to ride a bicycle. The weather is good for outdoor activity for nearly the entire year, it's flat, and if one gets away from the coast it is actually kind of a peaceful place to roll around.

I saw some of the least maintained bicycle (pretty much everything there is run down away from the touristy areas) lanes I have ever seen there though, if there were any at all... very little thought was given to anything but cars there, even the bus system pretty much sucks, and the drivers are some of the very worst I have ever seen, and they aren't all tourists like the redneck dummies down there claim they are....

Even the sidewalks are so poorly thought out as to be nearly impassable in many places, in one area there is a wall on one side, and a telephone pole on the other with an area to pass so narrow between that I had to walk my bicycle to pass between, right along a really busy road that is very dangerous to ride on. Never mind wheelchair and disabled curbs....Instead of placing the sidewalk further in from the road, there are light poles placed directly onto the sidewalk, electronics shelters too, which make it nearly impossible for two pedestrians to pass, let alone a bicycle or wheelchair to go through.

It took me months to find a safe route without tons of dangerous conflicts and obstacles for the ride to work every day, in a word, it was "ridiculous".

I would think that those who plan these streets and so on would realize how much revenue they could reel in by making a place with weather good enough for cycling all year safe enough not to be right up at number 1 or number 2 in bicycling fatalities every year since forever.

I'm moving back down to Florida really soon, maybe I will get involved in that planning somehow, if the "good old fellas" who think golfing is anything resembling exercise will hear me.

Nah....

I think that you would like Wisconsin. It has plenty of well maintained trails. Though I will admit riding the rural roads can be and are dangerous with all the twists and turns.

But the trails connect towns as well and during the winter months you can X-country ski them. It's a great state for fitness buffs with plenty of challenges. Just like all the rest of the states. LOL

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I got chased by one of those tarded cage monkeys in Florida several times, in Daytona some tard gave chase and got his damned car stuck between two trees while trying to catch me.

I was laughing so hard I had to stop at the Bottoms Up on the way home and give strippers money for nothing to stop from laughing in order to get home alive.

Spending lots of money for nothing always removes a smile from my face, five bucks for a Budweiser does too, besides Budweiser being garbage beer....

Florida is quite the joke, isn't it?, I don't understand what's so great about it other than the awesome weather all year.

Watching all the RUB's kill each other during Daytona Bike Week and Biketoberfest was amusing to watch too.

What's not illegal anymore? Welcome to the machine. The system is your father and father knows best you peasant. Have fun taking it because until you all get upset with the system, it will rule you until you die. Then they will find a way to squeeze you in your grave.

Wrabbit2000
At least that is a city that has Bike Lanes. I wish they all did. Instead, we get bike riders who have this silly delusion that their peddle power can somehow match the horsepower of a motor vehicle. Err.. It can't.. Won't...and there are far less painful ways of committing suicide than riding bicycles in real traffic lanes.

Bikes in traffic lanes is one of my deepest pet peeves.. I wish all cities had the lanes.

I feel your pain Wrabbit, I really, truly do. I know that they are supposed to be respected like every other vehicle on the road, but when they are in traffic sitting at a stop light with their hand signals in front of me I just want to slam on my gas and plow into them. They are a nuisance.

The bike lanes we have are too narrow for them to not still be in the way of traffic, and they get ticketed if they ride on the sidewalk. What's worse is that they insist on traveling in packs on main arteries in the city. Not in a neighborhood somewhere, but on a main friggin road. What's even worse is that 98% of the bicyclists I see are not people who are trying to be more economical or health/environmentally conscious, no no no, these are packs of men and women that somehow think they are in the Tour de France every day. Speed bikes, ridiculous looking helmets, lycra bicycle shorts, and skin tight shirts that were purchased with fake endorsements all over. They take biking to a whole new level of pretentiousness and obnoxiousness.

reply to post by TDawgRex


I am in Wisconsin right now, if it weren't for the awful winters I wouldn't leave.

I was on the Badger State Trail between Monroe WI and the Illinois state line just yesterday, I lived in Madison till april of this year and rode about 400 miles a week whenever I could.

There are some pretty stupid people on bicycles out there too though, it seems any road rules or etiquette go out the window when people get on a bicycle sometimes....

I absolutely love riding my bike.

reply to post by MyHappyDogShiner


My sister lives right on the Sparta trail. She tried to open a B&B for bikers but the county shut her down for reasons I won't get into, but they were too stupid and the subject grates my nerves.

They won't even let her open a campsite for them.

reply to post by Osiris1953

Those unruly packs of bicyclists you come across blocking the road, all dressed up in team colors are called......

Posers.

I get accused of not being a real bicyclist a lot, last time was last week, because I'm not wearing my "Disco Spandex" shorts.

Even my Mom gives me a hard time when I wear spandex, she says " Certainly can tell you're a boy in those shorts there..."

I wear Andiamo sports briefs under regular shorts so I don't draw attention to myself so much....pockets are kind of nice too.

Girls like those shorts on guys, and some of those guys who have "tendencies" really give you a hard time.

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Gotcha.

I think biking is great, it just gets really tiresome when the posers in question have no respect for anyone else on the road. Think of the three busiest roads in your town/city, in mine this is where most of these folks can be found. It's just so irritating, so much so that I can't even get enjoyment of women in tight shorts.