Bicyclers!!!

[Unknownstrohsfan]

Okay, I gotta say this is one of my new pet peves, First off at one time before we made special roads for bikes, it was not only assumed that you would obey the rules of the road, because it was the law, you did it because you didn't want to get runned over, seems logical. Now bicyclers not only ignore the law, they have the law blocking traffic on major highways, during bicycler events, that pay these guys to break the law, Kicking a 5000 lb moving vehicle is stupid, the reason he did it is stupider. Never have did the whole run the block thing , but it has crossed my mind.

[Br549]

I don't know what event you are referring to, but there are two things that instantly raise my blood pressure bicycles riding side by side or taking up a lane, and cars driving in the rain with flashers on.
Families or kids in the neighborhood, no problem.

[Dookie Ray]

Okay, I gotta say this is one of my new pet peves, First off at one time before we made special roads for bikes, it was not only assumed that you would obey the rules of the road, because it was the law, you did it because you didn't want to get runned over, seems logical. Now bicyclers not only ignore the law, they have the law blocking traffic on major highways, during bicycler events, that pay these guys to break the law, Kicking a 5000 lb moving vehicle is stupid, the reason he did it is stupider. Never have did the whole run the block thing , but it has crossed my mind.

I feel the same way about kayakers in the channels in the marsh when you gotta stay on plane to get through! Along with kayakers that paddle between me and the shoreline I'm fishing towards.

[OneDayScratch]

A work acquaintance just lost his grown son last week training for a triathlon riding on a known heavy truck roadway.

Don't know specifics but am having a hard time understanding a terrible ordeal in which pursuing a hobby leaves your wife and kids to fend for themselves.

Suppose I could be on a boat in the middle of the GOM and capsize and do the same.

That said, not too often a big tanker clips a small boat.

Just a sad deal for sure.

[JSimpson]

Wife and I used to ride bicycles in Houston a lot in our younger days. We always observed stop signs, etc and made every effort not to impede vehicle traffic. The attitude that is so common with bike riders nowadays just makes me sick. So many think they own the roads, immune to traffic signs and just generally completely disrespectful to vehicle traffic.

[KWeber]

most seem to have a sense of entitlement.. and just plain rude...that little flashing light will
NOT protect you...4 wheels trump 2... 18 runs the table

[Da Reel Daddy]

idk if cycles use the road but be respectful and considerat

[Newtron]

Nothing ever wrong with being respectful and considerate. I would appreciate the same be it in the grocery store parking lot, FM road, highway during the MS 150 or what not. It’s easy to hate. Harder to try to understand. I get entitlement being a problem but I’m sure we all have some entitlement situations. The people who pass me up or cut in front of me with a wife giving birth or a dying parent. Mine are just different from theirs. Mine are right. Theirs are wrong or maybe not…
it’s all about perspective. Food for thought.
Never mind. Bicyclers suck. Diesels rolling coal. Fishermen towing their boats a little under the speed limit. You decide.
Carry on.

[BDGreen]

Waller County has become a meca for bicycle rides/races and it's a huge problem. Most of our roads are two lane and have a lot of curves where I am. It's danged near impossible to pass a group of 20 to 30 riders or more without taking a chance of hurting someone.

[KWeber]

file a complaint w/the SO...usually it takes a fatality, tho, to see anything change...
and the corpse is almost always wearing spandex

[LouReed]

I know of two cyclist deaths on Waller county roads in recent years, one a coworker. He was riding inside, "protecting" his mother and a few other riders and was technically on the shoulder, though only by a foot or so.

[SmithRanchZ]

I was caught behind some ag eq. the other day. Huge tractor pulling a trailer filled with hay, two lane road, hills and curves, and he was doing about 15 mph.

Sure, I could curse and swear, proclaim that the tractor pays no road taxes, doesn't pay registration, etc. Or, be cool, share the road, and recognize that the world does not revolve around me. Perhaps consider that I am hurrying just to hurry, and a few minutes of my time is nothing.

[KWeber]

well when I was the ag equip operator, I did try to move over when I could w/out running down mailboxes...
be glad it was a tractor and not a mule team....lol

[BDGreen]

That's a whole 'nother ball game. We're looking at one, maybe two pieces of equipment while bicycles a running 20 to 30 bikes long.

[Boom!]

You couldn’t pass a single tractor moving 15mph? I could do that on my scag. 🙄

[rdb]

Why bicycle on busy highway/roads during rush hour when you know it is dangerous.

[Wado II]

They have been doing lots of bicycle events in my area on these ranch roads. All gravel and lots of miles at least they aren't on the major paved roads with all the vacuum trucks and oilfield traffic. They are even showing up out here just doing practice rides maybe they are tired of becoming highway pizza.

[Wado II]

See what I mean.https://www.gravelcyclist.com/calendar/#google_vignette

[Unknownstrohsfan]

meant to put this link in my OP. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...yFAgXtFxPbLZSX

[Mrsh978]

Pain in the ass around here. If using public roads - they need to carry insurance and have vehicle inspections just as the rest of the world. They impede the normal flow of traffic and create dangerous situations with oncoming traffic when “trying” to go around them

[dwilliams35]

Waller County has become a meca for bicycle rides/races and it's a huge problem. Most of our roads are two lane and have a lot of curves where I am. It's danged near impossible to pass a group of 20 to 30 riders or more without taking a chance of hurting someone.

They'd help themselves a lot if they just stop at stop signs (I really don't care that your feet are clipped in, it's still a stop sign), stop riding multiple abreast (I really don't care that you want to have a conversation, it'll save your butt) , stay out of the main lanes when there's a paved shoulder (I don't care that it's rougher pavement, it's also saving your butt), and just being basically a little more cognizant of the fact that there's people that need that road every day for their livelihood, and your recreation is impeding that. There's a reason that it's called "farm to market road": there's actual laws that give farm equipment and such right of way in a lot of instances there..

Our end of the county has seen a fairly good drop-off in the bike population since they ironed out a couple a few years back and they didn't think we were sufficiently empathetic to their plight, but there's still plenty out there attempting suicide every weekend.

[Hooked]

Several years back we(tax payers) spent millions $$$$ to build a special hike/bike 'road' between 518 and NASA 1, including a 30' expansion to the bride over Clear Creek. I can count on my fingers (and maybe a couple toes) how many people I've seen using that stretch since it was built.
I do still have to watch out for a few bikers riding on the main road though. Nothing has changed that I can tell.