This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.
Devils advocate theres a pregnant woman in the backseat but also a hijacker has planted a bomb in the car and if they go under 50mph the car blows up
but if its a public officially sanctioned event, which I have no idea if it is cause I seee no police oficers, then rheyre allowed to do that…
But I looked up this event on google snd I still have no idea if this is a officially sanctioned event so …
Im on nobody’s side here yet.
Is this an officially sanctioned event that has been authorized to take over a whole road?
If not, slower traffic should keep to the right. Share the road. Don’t be a dick. It’s not hard.
Edit: just realized where I am. This could have all been avoided with better public transportation. Fuck cars.
Edit #2: as a society we should absolutely be building public transportation and protected bike lanes. However, there are a shocking number of people talking about “entitled” this and “entitled” that and have no idea what the actual laws are for sharing the road using the current existing infrastructure in this video.
This video appears to be an asshole in a car passing some assholes on bicycles.
Florida Statute § 316.081(3): On a road, street, or highway having two or more lanes allowing movement in the same direction, a driver may not continue to operate a motor vehicle in the furthermost left-hand lane if the driver knows or reasonably should know that he or she is being overtaken in that lane from the rear by a motor vehicle traveling at a higher rate of speed.
Florida Statute § 316.2065(5)(a): A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing must ride in the bicycle lane or, if there is no bicycle lane on the roadway, as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway
Every cyclist in the left lane blocking the faster traffic should be written a ticket.
Unless they’ve gone through some kind of permitting process then they have no more moral ground than the street takeover assholes that go around shutting down roads to do donuts.
THANK YOU.
If an evernt is not officially sanctioned ? In my opinion ANYRHING, AND I MEAN ANYTHING, can happen in there and I wouldnt care. Unless there are kids there? I dont care for anyone there. Sorry. If anyone wants to hold a. massive event that will DEFINITELY clog up a public road or area? Yooooo you better fucking get that bitch approved first. Like the only massive public event that doesnt need to be approved is a massive public violent protest … and thats it.
I remember watching this one video of a guy who crashed died during one of those unofficial ‘street takeover’ events and he ended killing a few other people there who were happily watching it and also clogging up that road and the comments were so sad for them…
uhhhh…
I find it very hard to feel sad for adults who dont tell anyone that they will clog up the public areas that WE ALL PAY TAXES FOR, , intentionally clog up a road, drive their cars in circles at irrantionally dangerous speeds, race each other on unofficial race tracks , and then end up learning the valuable lesson that ‘Moving really quickly has never been a problem, its just the stopping really quickly.’
South Parks season premiere hasn’t aged at all
South America*
This is on the north end of Key Biscayne, an island connected by bridge to Miami.
They renamed South Park to South America.
Oh lol, I haven’t kept up.
The car going through the grass is a distraction. It shouldnt even be a talking point in this video.
What should be the talking point is a bunch of MAMIL’s feeling like they are entitled to an entire roadway, when they could easily coexist by keeping right and leaving the other lane open.
Which should be the actual focus of this story.
We’re talking about around 100 people taking as much space as 10 cars… The road’s public they have the fucking right to be on it.
Yea but the standard is that slower traffic keeps right, we don’t have to block the entire roadway left to right
The only case where bikes should be the entire road is if its an official event with road closures to accomodate
Yes, exactly.
imagine the rage against cars if there was a picture of cars doing a rolling blockade like this. People would be apoplectic
If its wrong for cars to do it, its wrong for anyone else to do it too. And if you don’t think thats true, then you’re a hypocrite (general you, not accosting you, Baguette)
Imagine the rage against cars if there was a picture of cars doing a rolling blockade like this.
That’s just regular car traffic. And nobody is upset about that.
Taxi drivers do this when protesting
IN my many many decades I’ve never seen anything but police match speed and drive abreast to become a rolling barricade…and that was only to bring traffic to a halt due to an accident up a head.
This isn’t a rolling barricade it’s just a critical mass of cyclists. When there’s enough car traffic to bring travel to a crawl we don’t call it a rolling barricade we just call it throughput capacity.
I used to do that during stop and go traffic, after I saw a couple semis doing it. If you can gauge the average speed of traffic and smooth out the irregularities, everyone gets there at the same time, but we all have a much more relaxed drive.
Now I ride a motorcycle so I can simply go around/between traffic.
…but cars do that already…wot?
Have you never been stuck in a traffic jam? …What are you talking about?
That is strictly an interstate highway standard. This is a local stroad in Florida. Keep right unless passing does not apply here.
If we want to be really pedantic then yes Florida is one of the states that actually has a law for keep right on any multilane road, including the one in the video
Damn then there’s like 80 cyclists passing in this video.
They aren’t
Bike clubs have a leader who manages the group. No one is outpacing the ride leader. It’s not a free for all race, it’s just a club
Like it’s not hard to recognize biking is a great mode of transportation but you should not block the entire roadway for others when doing so
Imagine an ambulance stuck in traffic from their terrible decision or a bus running late because he can’t make his route when going 15mph.
At the end of the day the club is in the wrong, the car driving in the head is in the wrong. There’s no need to make it good guy vs bad guy when both parties are doing things wrong
It’s a joke.
But that doesnt mesh with their feelings and outrage so that doesnt matter.
Yes they do.
They don’t have the fucking right to be a rolling barricade by blocking the entire road for everything behind them.
Jesus christ, the amount of hysterical overreaction and rage in response to daring to suggest the cyclists should keep right and not block everything for everyone, like slow traffic is supposed to do, is patently ridiculous.
It’s pretty ironic that you think everyone else is having an hysterical overreaction.
A classic “no,u”, huh
The group cycling standrad is every 2 together, and at the end a relay protection car behind the whole group. Even if they were 60 or 100 they can still ride in 2s and only take 1 side of the road.
Also, ffs these twats ware doing it for sports… go to a gym, jerk off at home, or block 1 lane , or 2 at worst if the road allows it. Why block the whole road… shit like this is not even acceptable in protests let alone wankers in expensive carbon-fiber rides playing a hobby or sport games.
MAMIL’s
what silly stupid shit is this?
Don’t be a lead huffer. Cars never give way to cyclists in such a manner, no matter how slow their traffic, nor would they ever be expected to. Just like much of the rest of the country, cyclists are every bit as entitled to a safe and full lane as any other road user and nobody except an emergency responder should ever feel entitled to others moving out of their way.
It doesn’t matter if cars give way to 2 wheelers because we can simply go around them. Though in the US its not terribly uncommon for crab-bucket brained drivers to try to block bikes from filtering at red lights.
Exactly, you get met with threats of vehicular assault.
Blocking someone or yelling at them isn’t a threat of violence, its just assholish behavior.
But moving your car in a manner to threaten bodily harm if they’re to pass, outside of normal operation, is assault or intimidation depending on where you do it.
Eh, I never interpreted it as a threat, only “If I can’t go because of traffic, neither can you! Riding on the lines is illegal!”.
I know bicyclists who have been pushed into the shoulder by assholes, that is threatening, but just getting in someone’s way to lower them to your level is merely childish behavior.
Yes yes, insults because you cant stand reasonable discourse over group A being held to the same standard as group B.
“An entire roadway”
It’s like 100-200 feet of the road. If they took up an entire roadway, then how did the car merge at the end of the video?
It’s also on the immediate approach to a short but narrow causeway, I imagine the group bunched up intentionally so that they could stay together across it rather than getting buzzed by a bunch of trucks and pushed into the ocean.
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You might want to check what community you’re in.
last I checked, this was Fuck Cars.
Not “I suck off assholes just because they’re not in cars”
And don’t lie and say you’d not be pissed off if you were stuck behind self centered people blocking whatever path you were on.
Find a different path, genius. There’s more than one road.
Find a different path
Thats literally what the car did, and lemmitors apparently aren’t OK with that either.
Yeah yeah, until its you… Then that volatile temper of yours will be lashing out at the people infront of you. Because its okay until it affects you, personally, right?
I’m surprised nobody in here commented that maybe there was an actual life or death emergency the car occupants were dealing with?
Like, fuck cars, but also maybe the driver had a real reason to do that. At least I feel like if you frame it that way it’s less infuriating. Who knows if that’s true but it makes me less mad to think that way.
entitled shits late for brunch more likely.
These people are idiots. I would never cycle with these morons. There’s too much wrong with this picture. I don’t blame the car wanting to get out of this cluster fuck and they had the courtesy of honking in a way to say passing on your left. One moron falls over and ULTRA-KILL. I don’t know what moron in this group thought that with that many riders that there shouldn’t be a spare lane to attempt to avoid catastrophic accidents.
I have a seriouis question to ask: How many people in that picture actually died or ended up with permanent injuries?
A car crash with THAT many people in vehicles would MANDATORILY lead to a dozen or so deaths.
THIS on the ither hand? I would pick this over a multi vehicle car crash any second of any day.
It’s actually sad to see how many people are on the side of a beligerant driver going offload because of their road rage. Comments blaming the cyclists for being unpredictable, unsafe, or unfair to other drivers couldn’t be further from the truth.
Cycling safety courses teach that you should stay together when riding as a group. Those saying they should’ve closed the road down are basically saying drivers can’t be trusted to handle having cyclists on the road, hence why the group is so clustered for protection.
Modern US society makes it so difficult to have a community. This video is just another example of how “personal liberty” can be used as a cudgel to force conformity.
BS. I’m a cyclists and a driver. Cyclists 100% can be unpredictable, not follow rules, while demanding rule following from others. They are developing a bad reputation for a reason.
It’s not an absolute. But generally once someone starts dressing in lycra, they stop being a reasonable person. I will always cycle in street clothes. I don’t care how many miles I do. I will never become a MAMIL (middle aged male in lycra). Because I like cycling, but cycling culture is getting wack.
I’m also a cyclist and driver. I can’t count how many times I’ve seen cyclists blatantly ignore stop lights, stop signs, and generally any other traffic law they want. It makes me scream in my car. They’re making cycling less safe for me by lowering public trust. Absolutely mental.
I’d be cooler if you saw middle aged dudes in lycra as fellow cyclists who just do it a bit differently than you, rather than an outgroup to hate on behalf of someone else’s entitled interests.
But generally once someone starts dressing in lycra, they stop being a reasonable person. I will always cycle in street clothes.
Do you wear a suit to the gym as well?
They don’t even realize they partake in car brained virtue signalling.
Internalized oppression all up in this thread.
I think we are interpreting the driver’s actions differently. He is giving them a ton of space, not honking and bullying his way through the bicyclists. IDK about you, but I feel like a hero when there’s an obstruction justifying adv tires.
“Ope, construction ahead, guess I have no choice but to detour across a mile of beautiful rolling hills. Good thing I prepared for this exact moment”
There was not an “obstruction,” there was traffic. Would you be equally charitable if the road ahead had been congested with cars moving at the same speed? Somehow, I doubt it.
Would you be equally charitable if the road ahead had been congested with cars moving at the same speed?
Much more charitable, I regularly have to do similar manuvers on my motorbike to get around slow cars.
Actually I’d question why anyone would be bothered at all, at least with the bicycles, some people are afraid the driver will accidently veer across 15 feet of grass and drive into the bicyclists, which like I get it fear doesn’t have to be rational, but that’s not a safety concern if its other cars he was driving around.
You regularly offroad at high speed on a motorbike obviously not built for it, honking repeatedly while blasting over several pedestrian crossings, swerving all over the place?
Glad I don’t live near you.
Also of course it’s a fuckin safety issue if it’s cars too. You know what happens if you swerve into the side of a car? Nothing good ! Let alone one driving in tight packed formation with dozens of other cars
Where I live this is reckless endangerment and isn’t a “points on your licence” type infraction, it’s immediate “no more licence” and your car confiscated. As it should be.
And yes, this isn’t where I live. There are reasons I would never move to Florida.
Going offload to get around a road obstruction in a controlled manner is fine by me. The video that OP uploaded was not this though. They were trying to get around a large group of people legally using the road by running through several pedestrian crossings, using the median to pass, and honking as they did (turn on the audio in the video).
This is just straight up road rage.
This is a divided highway with a speed limit of 45mph, those aren’t pedestrian crossings.
The beeping was “hey I’m here” beeping, not sustained “fuck you” honking.
I have learned to give a quick “hey I’m over here” beep when passing in the countryside after a motorbike pulled to the right and slowed down to let me pass, then suddenly swerved across the entire road, no indicator, directly in front of my bike.
There’s definitely pedestrian crossings involved here.
Regardless, this driver is obviously breaking dozens of traffic laws just to pass a group of people that are maybe going below the speed limit. If you don’t see the issue with that then I don’t think we really need to continue this conversation.
I break a dozen traffic laws every time I get on my bike, lets not pretend law is some arbitror of morality to avoid confronting the fact that what he did was harmless.
…If what they did was ‘harmless’ I want to see you cross that pedestrian crossing with your loved ones during the driver’s rampage.
ALSO breaking traffic laws in a laughably weak bicycle is NOTHING compared to the damage that a person could do when breaking traffic laws in a over 2 tonne metal death machine. Bruh a persom could easily kill like 40 people in 20 minutes if they broke every traffic law while driving inside it… OK now lets see how many people thst same person would kill if they broke every traffic law while riding on a bicycle … 🍿🤭
Don’t you think you’re being a bit hyperbolic?
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They would much rather want to see 100 cars in a single line blocking the road it seems
Is this from a Don Pan Sunday ride? This seems different, a lot more rider congestion.
“Share the road” goes both ways. It’s a two way street so to say.
Never see this much complaining when the drivers don’t move out of my way in traffic.
I see the highest throughput of people that road had all week now that it isn’t blocked by cars for once.
Is it the highest throughout actually? Density sure, but lower density of people (in a car) per area or length of road at higher speed is still a higher throughout. Fast roads absolutely have a high throughout. Even during heavy traffic you often still go faster than bikes and the whole road is packed with cars at that point.
So… is it actually the highest throughout?
Bikes are not replacing cars 1:1, we instead need shorter distances etc. and reduce the required throughout to begin with.
Let’s say they go around 1/4th of the speed limit (they go faster than that for sure) and let’s say a car on this road is occupied by 2 people on average (which is generous).
To get the same throughput with cars, you need to put one car on the road (with safety distances) for every eight cyclists. No way that’s feasible in this example.
Good point! I agree, the momentary density and throughout are both at a peak there.
Is it the highest throughout actually?
It’s a lightly populated resort island off the coast of Miami, this is definitely the highest capacity of users it sees in any one moment.
That driver is obviously an idiot that needs his license revoked.
That said, as a fellow cyclist, you all need to do better as well. For this large an event, there should either be a road closure, or break it up into flights. If those aren’t feasible, restrict yourselves to one lane instead of taking up both. Not excusing the drivers carelessness at all, but judging from your reaction to other comments here, your ride group’s sense of entitlement is a problem as well.
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Never seen so much “As a cyclist” in one thread. Almost everyone is a cyclist at some point even if you don’t like them, they’re ubiquitous and useful, but most people never seem to speak “As a cyclist” until they need to throw an anti-cyclist opinion at a group ride. It’s like saying “As a pedestrian”. It doesn’t give your uncritical social grudges any further weight. One second, maybe I can find an honorary cyclist medal to pin on you or something to make it official.
I’m guessing that’s because, like me, they’ve given up on anything in “Fuck Cars” being a reasonable discussion. I commented to provide a balanced perspective on the situation, rather than just shake my fist at the stupid driver. Guess I should have known not to bother here. I don’t bother arguing with folks on the internet, so this’ll likely be my last post here. Enjoy your echo chamber.
Bye Felicia
No idea why that’s necessary. This is quite common in my country.
Allowed by law here, if you take certain precautions. Judging from the motorcycle, it seems this group also took precautions to keep the group safe.
It’s funny how you complain about entitlement.
I don’t have a dog in this race, so not really complaining about anything. I’m just pointing out that regardless of what’s legal, this is a failure of both safety and courtesy. Slower traffic stay to one side, let others go by.
The WHOLE conflict here is caused by entitlement. The cyclists think they are entitled to the whole road, through force of numbers, herd mentality, or whatever. The car feels entitled to drive how ever fast he wants and safety be damned. The car is obviously MORE in the wrong, but the whole situation could have been avoided.
At first I thought it’s a good idea. Now I think that maybe cars flying past may be a problem if something happens and someone falls or just swings out of lane, then it would require a bigger space, but cars will likely just think that this space could also be used and fill it.
On the other hand, I know nothing about how to organise these safely, and I’m always afraid of cars, so prefer to be on separate bike lanes whenever possible
Cars are constantly getting into bicyclist spaces, I never had so many close calls as when I was wearing high vis in the bike lanes. I swear they swerve to see how close they can get.
Sounds like you do indeed have a dog in this race. It’s crazy how cyclists can use the road in complete accordance of the law and be called entitled when a car is made to slow down behind them for a few minutes. No law is being broken here, the cyclists are in fact taking the full lane, as driver training and regulation suggest that they should. It’s for their own protection since, as you can see, Florida motorists can be complete psychopaths.
When one has to experience a moment without a privilege or entitlement they’ve become used to, it can feel to them like an grievous injury.
Seeing how wide the road is, there’s no reason to block the whole road in one direction. This doesn’t seem to be a competition, just a casual ride. Block a single lane then.
This is on the immediate approach to a short but narrow causeway where it would be in the group’s safety interest to not get broken up or pushed onto the gutter on the bridge.
Heaven forbid; not the whole road?!
I mean. They are using an entire thing when they don’t need to and other people also want to use the thing.
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Oh no, you’re getting to your destination marginally later. The tragedy.
Or we could, you know, share.
Try telling that to drivers in traffic. No car has ever moved out of my way on a bike and I’ve been cycling for decades.
They are sharing the road. Nobody is blocking the cars from using the road. They’re just upset they can’t go faster.
You don’t know the driver’s life. His wife could be in labor, he could be trying to visit a dying loved one, or rush home because he left the stove on.
Besides, it’s the law that slow moving traffic stay on the right side.
And stfu about safety. Do you how many alligators are in this video literally just off screen? At least 50.
Not sure what your point is. A traffic jam is way more common and then the driver would be completely stuck.
Clearly there’s also no legal issue, as OP said this is a weekly event. Since Americans are masters at complaining, it would have long been stopped.
It’s illegal, but the cops are too busy beating the shit out of minorities to care about cyclists blocking the flow of traffic. If you’re not from the states, you have no right to speak on the traffic law here.
You don’t know the driver’s life. His wife could be in labor, he could be trying to visit a dying loved one
And then risks their own life pulling this stunt?
It’s not my ride group. I’m not even in the same hemisphere, let alone the same ride group
Nah
If this were a critical mass instead of road cyclists a lot more people would be cheering them on.
Yeah either this thread hit a lot of non-fuckcars frontpages or the carbrained hate for middle-aged men who enjoy cycling in lycra is living rent free in the heads of a lot of anti-car cyclists.
Option 3: even people who don’t think cars should exist think we should all share the road, you gain nothing from sitting in the passing lane, so it looks like you’re just being an asshole for the hell of it.
