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I’ll give you an honest answer. I live in a rualish area. There’s a 2 lane highway that’s roughly 50 miles from my city to another one. 55 and a lot of blind curves. Farmers in semi trucks use that road all the time for hauling stuff.

Every summer there’s a pack of cyclists that try that route. They barely do 25. Every summer one of them does on one of the corners. You simply can’t stop a semi fast enough when something is doing half the speed limit, especially on a sharp corner.

They’re a fucking menace. There literally hundreds of miles of trails to ride in my area, but they have to be on that one particular road. They’re simply the most self centered assholes in the universe IMO.

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You simply can’t stop a semi fast enough when something is doing half the speed limit

How does that make absolutely any sense?

“I couldn’t stop fast enough because they were going too slow!”

More like you’re following far too closely.

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- chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What part of 55 and blind curve do you not understand?
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You realize 55 is the maximum speed, right? It doesn’t mean you have to continue driving 55MPH over corpses.
    
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    chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You might want to look up the stopping distance of a semi at 55.
    
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hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That sounds like a problem with your county. If that many people are dying, wouldn’t it be worth building a separated bike path?

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- chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  We have one…they don’t use it.
  
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- Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I don’t know his county specifically, but often times the roads are designed to fit in an area, with a set number of lanes, and built to that width. You cant add bike paths with out redesigning, buying more land, and building miles amd miles of path. And for what? Five bozos to ride through in fair weather?
  
  Not enough benefits to justify the costs. Plenty better things to spend money on.
  
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Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah,itd be one thing if they were using it for transport and actually not blocking traffic and being safe about it, but none of that is true. They all think they’re Lance Armstrong or something, and its the tour de france. People have places to be!

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- chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s the crux of it. They could ride on the sidewalk and slow down…or they could simply move over and let traffic pass. But they don’t. It’s some holy war to piss off as many people as possible while wearing spandex.
  
  All the hardcore cyclists I’ve known are miserable insufferable people so it makes sense. Middle managers on their second or third marriages that hate their lives. There’s plenty of sport out there that offers superior fitness and doesn’t do damage to your prostate…but, whatevs.
  
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