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So tonight I went to the 10th st 7-11 and about 5 "men" ages 20-30 were hanging out there. That's fine, what's not fine is them riding all over the roads into traffic. I have to say I purposely swerved but did not hit one of those idiots who tried to cut me off when I was making a left turn on green. You idiot boys are why motorists have issues with cyclists

Problem with cyclist is that they want to share the road but yet think they have the rights of pedestrians - my opinion if you ride on the street you have to obey the same traffic laws than any other vehicle - it beats me how a cyclist can legally ride on the street in the middle of the night with no lights that's not only plain dumb but right out dangerous - just my opinion .....

a lot of cyclists not riding properly but a few cyclists do bike properly, lets not put them all in the same basket.  
and you drivers that complain about cyclists not obeying or following the law on the streets....do you obey the law when you drive?

1 chance said "a lot of cyclists not riding properly but a few cyclists do bike properly, lets not put them all in the same basket.   and you drivers that complain about cyclists not obeying or following the law on the streets....do you obey the law when you drive? "

I have my lights on when driving at night :-)

I drive the speed limit, use my signals and don't try to cut off and cause accidents.

Haha sad but almost true either way it pisses me off how all wheeled vehicles can't share the roads or follow the rules

The majority of cyclists are probably responsible and do try to follow the rules. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's an overwhelming majority, but still probably a majority none the less. It's the rest of them who are the problem and it's the rest of them who stand out. The ones who have the attitude that the rules for motor vehicles don't apply to them and that the rules for pedestrians don't apply to them either, that they can just do whatever the h*** they please, are the problem. The ones with the "I have more right to be on the road than a car" attitude.  
 
Several times a day I see them ride out onto the street in a pedestrian crosswalk, without even stopping first. Just watching them, you would swear that they want to get hit. They must know that it is illegal for them to ride through a crosswalk, but they use it as a way to run the stop sign, knowing or at least assuming that the car drivers will stop for them. Then there are the ones who insist on hogging an entire lane of traffic on a busy street while there is a perfectly usable bicycle path running next to the road. Sure, they have the right to use the traffic lane, but if there's a bike path alongside the road they should have enough courtesy and common sense to use the bicycle path. These are the cyclists who have the attitude that they have more right to the road than car drivers have. Car drivers have to pay a lot of money in the form of dedicated fees and taxes for the "privilege" of being allowed to drive on our roads. Cyclists don't pay any dedicated fees or taxes for the use of the roads, yet act as if they have the exclusive right to use the roads. Some of them have the same attitude toward pedestrians when riding on sidewalks and bicycle paths too. So yeah, while not all cyclists are the problem, it's the ones that I've just mentioned who give all cyclists a bad name.

Roads are mainly funded by property tax. So cyclists are also paying fees and taxes to maintain and build the road.