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Originally Posted by puckluck
So what you're trying to say is that drivers are mad because your "$1600" bike just passed their more expensive vehicle? Do you actually believe the average motorist knows or cares that your bike is $1600 or a $100 bike from Wal-Mart? If you actually believe that anyone in a vehicle gives a rats behind how much your bike costs and that they are "rage mad" then you truly have a messed up view of reality.
I don't think anyone looks at the cyclist and says "damn $1600 bike thinks he's going to pass me..oh wait it's a $100 bike from Wal-Mart I'll just let them pass"
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You totally missed the point as per usual. $1600 is totally poor ass for a real road bike. The real serious dudes will have wheels or groupsets worth more than $1600. It is not an attempt to puff my chest. I could have said "On my $232.56 bike, passing his $3500 Dodge Neon." I was just using the facts in front of me with what I know I paid, and what I would estimate the cost of what Locke drives.
The point I was trying to make was a relative cost thing. A lot of people have ego issues with being passed in the big expensive SUV by either a skateboard, another car or a bike. Pure ego.
And it can create a ton of conflict in a dense traffic situation, when you pass the same guy multiple times due to stop and go traffic. 90% of the conflicts I seem to have had, are with guys driving big trucks or SUVs.
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Originally Posted by Ark2
There seems to me a misconception that keeps popping up in this thread, so I would just like to set the record straight: Drivers are not jealous of cyclists. There just isn't anything to be jealous about. Cyclists look like spandex clad ######s. They are a nuisance to drivers everywhere and the fact that they think the rules should only apply to them when they feel it is convenient is the reason that non-cyclists can't stand them. You guys aren't saving the planet, you aren't making my commute easier, if you want to ride a bike, go buy a stationary, set it up in your garage and stay out of my way.
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Where have I said drivers are jealous, show me one spot. I have stated drivers get mad, which is an entirely different emotion altogether.
Also what is with the personal attacks going on in this thread? I get that you guys hate frikkin cyclists. But the vast majority of the chirping is being done by people that have probably never once in their life, actually commuted on one, and have no clue what they are talking about, let alone ridden one more than a few hundred kms in their entire life. That is an average week for me between commuting, and just excersise.
All I have been trying to point out, is until you actually are in the position of a cyclist, during a rush hour commute, you really have no idea what it is like in the position of the cyclist.
And lets clear one thing up here. I am not running lights at controlled intersections in downtown Calgary at 4:00 pm, That would be suicide. And as much as some of you would love me to become a road stain, I am not that stupid. If there is a light, I stop, unless it is late at night, and I am the only guy in site, or in the middle of nowhere and hit a 4 way. All you holier than thou guys can claim you would sit and wait... but 99% of cyclists don't, and likely neither would you.