Comments on: Dude! Who do you think you’re honking at?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:56:10 +0000

@ AJ, We are having our next Orlando Cycling Savvy class session in September. Sign up and join us. If not, at minimum, come ride with me. Be a part of the solution. Ride Big and Ride On!

By: fred_dot_u

fred_dot_u — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:22:23 +0000

My daily travels often take me past Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and Daytona State College. Rather than provide for cyclists’ education, some decision maker somewhere has put in a parallel paved surface, encouraging the previously-wrong-way riders to ride the wrong way and more easily blow through the traffic lights.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:18:23 +0000

AJ,
Educating drivers and cyclists is a big part of cycling advocacy. It starts with individuals that take the initiative to become educated about riding their bike safely on the road and following the laws of their state. There are excellent educational programs in most cities but it is up to the individual to invest in their own safety and education. Many don’t. Uneducated drivers (and cyclists) can not fully comprehend what safe cycling is unless they have been taught by someone or some organization that is qualified to instruct on ALL the laws of their district pertaining to cycling, proper positioning and safe riding. Opinions on safe cycling vary widely among uneducated cyclists and drivers. But not as much between cyclists and drivers that are educated properly about safe cycling.

If your a bicycle commuter I hope you invest in your own safety, get educated and help with the problem. If you don’t commute by bike or even ride a bike, I understand your frustration. Most of us are drivers when we’re not riding our “clean air” devices.
Best regards, Gary

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:15:57 +0000

I commute to work on a campus filled with thousands of bicycling students who are anything but “safe, skilled and consistent.” They’re complete idiots. Educate them. Please.

And I apologize for swearing.

By: fred_dot_u

fred_dot_u — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:35:23 +0000

I think AJ has a problem discerning the difference between the safe, skilled and consistent cyclists who inhabit these forums and those other people on bikes who need to be educated. Other than his unwarranted use of profane references, I applaud his ability to spell and use correct grammar. Such things are rare in folks of his ilk.

By: Steve A

Steve A — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:50:13 +0000

I don’t recall the police officer doing any of those things in the video. Perhaps I was inattentive. I do have a question for AJ: “When you get pulled over for your next traffic violation, do you plan to call the officer a ‘hipster doofus’?”

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:23:14 +0000

AJ must have had a bad day on the set of Swamp People but never the less there is still lots of work to be done with educating drivers and cyclists.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:47:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing your opinion. *waves*

By: AJ

AJ — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:34:29 +0000

Don’t care if he’s a cop or not, riding a bike in the middle of a highway is dangerous and stupid.

An open letter to all you hipster doofuses who think you have the right to the road: You don’t have the right to dart out in front of intersections with total disregard for the 4-way stop signs. You don’t have the right to run red lights. You don’t have the right to swerve haphazardly in and out of traffic with no regard for whether or not there is a 1/4 ton vehicle right behind you. You do all of these things under the banner of “clean air” and we’re supposed to applaud you that you have a fanny pack and can carry all your groceries in your baby rack.

Just remember the Lugnut Rule, dipshits.

If it has more lugnuts than you, get the hell out of its way.

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