One of my roommates in college had me drive him to buy a bike off of Craigslist so he could get around, he rode it home, and then never touched it again because he got a bunch of drive-by harassment/name-calling, it was really sad.
Seriously? I get yelled at at least once every time I ride. People have thrown drinks at me, spit at me numerous times (though their aim is generally very poor)
I’ve even been run off the road a few times, intentionally (they admitted it after I caught up with them at the next light and confronted them)
In my local city, people die every year getting ran over on a bike. I knew a dr who didnt make it.
I got close-lined off my bike once around 2017. Its part of the gang initiation to send someone to the hospital. I have a dent in my nose because of it.
Its MUCH more dangerous in my area than most places though.
Maga land folks get very angry if you’re even driving a small car. Been screamed at and almost ran off the road just for existing in a small car. It offends their tiny pp. Or something.
They REALLY hate bikes. Maybe because while they drive their 8000 lb dually quad cab thats never touched dirt or towed once, and hauls 1 person 99% of the time, they get mad at how efficient you are.
And I have a truck too. For work. 8 ft box single cab manual with no radio or ac. Hauls construction material and tows trailers. A truck used for real work. Fuck bro trucks.
An old friend was once getting a ride to work in an escalade when a big ole lifted truck did some dick move, so she made a big truck small dick joke. It didn’t land well. When another friend dumped this man, we learned she called him turtle 🐢 due to how turtles can pull their head in.
Yup… drove a small car back from college and two truck bros decided it’d be fun to sandwich my car between them. One rode my rear bumper with high beams, the other slowed down and rode the middle line so I couldn’t pass. Then he’d start slamming his brakes.
I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won’t do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead.
I’m not sure “the only way you’ll get justice is with your own bloody hands” was the author’s intent, but that seems to be the message.
what ? as a bike rider it happens to me quite often, the passenger hanging out the window yelling “get a car ya cheap cunt!” another time, fallen behind my gf for a bit, some dude hangs out the window and slaps her ass as they pass
Where I live bikes have to block the traffic lane and you end up with a line of cars behind you a km long all going 15 in a 60 zone. Also cy lists get killed on these roads all the time so I see a bike less than once a year, but when I do, there are 100 cars behind them, or the bike is painted white in memorial to someone who died there.
Why do they have to block the lane? In some scenarios it is better to do this than not, but is your case a specific street or are all the streets that narrow?
In some states, cyclists legally get the entire lane. And when you’re going up to a low visibility intersection, you want to be in the middle of the road to maximize the angles that you’re visible
There is no shoulder on the roads or bike lanes, just two lane roads (one each direction) with high speed limits and heavy truck traffic and commuters. Often they’re going 80kmh around blind curves. There are essentially never bikes but when there are they either die or they create huge backups.
One time someone shouted at me from their truck that they didn’t like my shirt. It wasn’t a sports shirt and didn’t have any logos at all. I think it was just baggier than they liked.
Sometimes people just dont like things being different.
What piece of shit harassed you for riding a bike?
Edit: I am deeply saddened by the current state of things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-gooder_derogation
Some people are very fragile and have poor emotional regulation. When they see other people doing good, it makes them feel bad, so they lash out.
Environmentalism, biking, veganism, all commonly evoke this behavior.
One of my roommates in college had me drive him to buy a bike off of Craigslist so he could get around, he rode it home, and then never touched it again because he got a bunch of drive-by harassment/name-calling, it was really sad.
Seriously? I get yelled at at least once every time I ride. People have thrown drinks at me, spit at me numerous times (though their aim is generally very poor)
I’ve even been run off the road a few times, intentionally (they admitted it after I caught up with them at the next light and confronted them)
In my local city, people die every year getting ran over on a bike. I knew a dr who didnt make it.
I got close-lined off my bike once around 2017. Its part of the gang initiation to send someone to the hospital. I have a dent in my nose because of it.
Its MUCH more dangerous in my area than most places though.
Maga land folks get very angry if you’re even driving a small car. Been screamed at and almost ran off the road just for existing in a small car. It offends their tiny pp. Or something.
They REALLY hate bikes. Maybe because while they drive their 8000 lb dually quad cab thats never touched dirt or towed once, and hauls 1 person 99% of the time, they get mad at how efficient you are.
And I have a truck too. For work. 8 ft box single cab manual with no radio or ac. Hauls construction material and tows trailers. A truck used for real work. Fuck bro trucks.
An old friend was once getting a ride to work in an escalade when a big ole lifted truck did some dick move, so she made a big truck small dick joke. It didn’t land well. When another friend dumped this man, we learned she called him turtle 🐢 due to how turtles can pull their head in.
Yup… drove a small car back from college and two truck bros decided it’d be fun to sandwich my car between them. One rode my rear bumper with high beams, the other slowed down and rode the middle line so I couldn’t pass. Then he’d start slamming his brakes.
I got furious reading that. I would’ve slammed the brakes and said goodbye to my car at that point. USA hits different man.
You’d have said goodbye to your head as well, because that lifted truck isn’t going into the rear of the small car… it’s going up and over.
All I can say is fuck lobbying and fuck the god awful politicians allowing these small dick energy monstrosities to happen.
I’m just lucky the guy in front of me didn’t have his truck configured to roll coal, giving me a smokescreen in addition to blinding high beam.
Time to carry a box of nails, or a paintball gun 😁
it’s all fun and games until they pull out the real gun.
I called the incident into the police station but it was before I had the dashcam so they just shrugged (and were probably blood related anyway).
I just saw a play that has a plot point about how someone gets robbed by some racist, well connected shits, and the police won’t do anything to help. The closest he gets to justice is vigilantism, where he hunts down and shoots 3 of his assailants dead. Only then does anyone start to listen to him, but when he agrees to talk peacefully they shoot him dead.
I’m not sure “the only way you’ll get justice is with your own bloody hands” was the author’s intent, but that seems to be the message.
Cops usually are the same ones driving BRo trucks, or its likely their kids like you said.
I do like the box of nails idea though. Keep a flimsy cardboard box of roofing nails in your door pocket for tail gating assholes :)
These are the people who don’t understand the meaning of Liberal as most lemmy commenters use it. It’s why it’s so dissonant.
what ? as a bike rider it happens to me quite often, the passenger hanging out the window yelling “get a car ya cheap cunt!” another time, fallen behind my gf for a bit, some dude hangs out the window and slaps her ass as they pass
Am Australian though.
At least get a bike, ya cheap passenger cunt!
Are you fucking kidding me? You’re describing apes
Humans are apes tho.
Where I live bikes have to block the traffic lane and you end up with a line of cars behind you a km long all going 15 in a 60 zone. Also cy lists get killed on these roads all the time so I see a bike less than once a year, but when I do, there are 100 cars behind them, or the bike is painted white in memorial to someone who died there.
Why do they have to block the lane? In some scenarios it is better to do this than not, but is your case a specific street or are all the streets that narrow?
In some states, cyclists legally get the entire lane. And when you’re going up to a low visibility intersection, you want to be in the middle of the road to maximize the angles that you’re visible
There is no shoulder on the roads or bike lanes, just two lane roads (one each direction) with high speed limits and heavy truck traffic and commuters. Often they’re going 80kmh around blind curves. There are essentially never bikes but when there are they either die or they create huge backups.
One time someone shouted at me from their truck that they didn’t like my shirt. It wasn’t a sports shirt and didn’t have any logos at all. I think it was just baggier than they liked.
Sometimes people just dont like things being different.