I get annoyed with sidewalk bikers here in Van too. It's always these loser wannabe hipsters with their 1 speed cruisers and no helmets too. I say throw punches at will.
What's worse than the teenagers on the sidewalks with bikes are the good for nothing bike couriers!
Why in the name of god the city doesn't crack down on them is beyond belief. Working downtown I almost get plowed over by one once a week.
They are the scum of the earth in my opinion.
Bike couriers are a rare breed of psychotic maniac who contribute greatly to the success of white-collar downtown Calgary. God bless every last one of them.
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Bike couriers are a rare breed of psychotic maniac who contribute greatly to the success of white-collar downtown Calgary. God bless every last one of them.
Was gonna say... For the office-types downtown, they've got to have the same kind of love-hate relationship with bike couriers as the rest of us do with cabbies. F'n hate them when we're sharing the road (sidewalk) with them, but absolutely love them when they're delivering us (or something) on time.
I bike on the sidewalk, with no helmet, and I bump people who are in my way around bus stops with bags of my dog's crap, who I run with me when I bike.
I'm also a teenager, and i act like tough **** because my bike is super fly:
I don't know what it is like in Calgary but here there are way too many older teenagers riding their bikes like crazy people on the sidewalks. You are walking along and all the sudden they go whipping by you from behind and startle the hell out of you! This happens to me every day I go out walking and they always go by and miss you by a few inches. I swear to god I am gonna start ripping them off their bikes!
If it is, I had no idea and I was biking by the hospital (not in Calgary) and a nurse cussed me out. I almost fell off my bike because she scared the crap out of me.
As was stated, yes it is. Further to that, there are designated bike paths and lanes... If you are not on a bike path or bike lane, you are considered traffic and are supposed to bike on the road with other traffic.
I'm okay with people biking on the sidewalk... mostly kids though. I understand it's scary to bike on the road with the traffic. If only the cars on the road also understood that...
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To be more accurate, children under 16 are not allowed to ride on the road, the day they turn 16 they are no longer allowed on the sidewalk, and must ride on the road instead.
I use both paths and sidewalks for biking. Sometimes I'll be ringing my bell behind people on the path, and they ignore me, so I fly by them usually on the grass, but I try to get as close as I can to them. That goes for those 14 year old girls who think they can walk 3 beside each other and not move for me. I usually pick the snottiest looking one on either side and brush by her within a mm.
I use both paths and sidewalks for biking. Sometimes I'll be ringing my bell behind people on the path, and they ignore me, so I fly by them usually on the grass, but I try to get as close as I can to them. That goes for those 14 year old girls who think they can walk 3 beside each other and not move for me. I usually pick the snottiest looking one on either side and brush by her within a mm.
Those are the ones you should just run over.
Kinda reminds me of a time in High school. It was a bunch of us guys/girls walking on a pretty narrow path in a park. There was another bunch of skanky girls that were coming at us and wouldn't move out of the way. All of us just walked on the side walk but my friend just bowled his way up the middle almost taking out one of the girls. We need more people like my friend.
To be more accurate, children under 16 are not allowed to ride on the road, the day they turn 16 they are no longer allowed on the sidewalk, and must ride on the road instead.
To be honest, I find it terrifying to be on a major road with cars. I'm not going to bike down Crowchild with cars narrowly missing me. That's just too Damn scary...
Probably why I haven't biked in over 10 years. If I'm not allowed to be on the sidewalk, I'm not going to bike at all.
To be honest, I find it terrifying to be on a major road with cars. I'm not going to bike down Crowchild with cars narrowly missing me. That's just too Damn scary...
Probably why I haven't biked in over 10 years. If I'm not allowed to be on the sidewalk, I'm not going to bike at all.
To be fair, the hard line doesn't really make sense in MANY cases, and thus ins't enforced. Just an example off of the top of my head - Biking down Falconridge Blvd/52nd Street, there is a bike path on the east side of the road. At 64th Ave, by the Co-op, the bikepath is a sidewalk, then further south, By the McDonalds in Falconridge, the bikepath is again just a sidewalk, and south of McKnight, at the 44th Ave/Temple Drive intersection, there's a Gas Plus where the bike path is again sidewalk width. If you are biking down that path, what are you supposed to do? Jump on the road for those short stretches?
Back in early spring one time I rode my bike to work, but my normal, shorter, safer route was still covered with snow, and the bike path beside 52nd street was covered in snow as well, so I rode on 52nd street until the snow melted. In the morning, heading south, the time I biked was after the rush, and was not too bad. However, the first time I tried to ride back home at around 5, I rode for one block, and then gave up with trying to ride on the road, because I was terrified. Cars whipping by in the same lane, harly moving over, me trying to ride in the gutter, with still had a little bit of snow in it, so I'm trying to avoid the hard packed mini drifts in the gutter, meanwhile not trying to veer too far into the traffic lane. I rode (slowly) on the snow covered path instead, climbing over plowed drifts, etc, because I wanted to get home alive. After that, when I would bike home along Metis Trail/36th Street even though it's a longer distance yet, because it has a wide shoulder lane.
The point is, there are times when riding on the road is just not an option. Where riding "according to the rules" is just not an option.
I only use sidewalks.. Do I want to get hit by a car, or a human? Humans are softer
Not this human, if you are on the sideWALK you are fair game and I can deliver a pretty solid clothesline. Your considered a vehicle, take it on the road!
