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Here? Bicycles. Super weird how weird people are about bikes and bike lanes here. Spreading the joy of a non-commodified fun-as-fuck method of transportation often provokes some truly reactionary energy here.
I love riding my bike, but one thing I and everyone else heavily disagree on is riding in the street. You can tell me it's safer (somehow) than the sidewalk until you're blue in the face, I'm not doing it and I certainly don't feel safer doing it, and I'm definitely going to be pissed at anyone doing it in a road I'm trying to drive down.
Edit: I almost forgot the carried over thing from Reddit where anything ambiguous is automatically the worst possible extreme, so I want to clarify that "being pissed" is just complaining to myself in my car, I'm not going to commit vehicular manslaughter because someone's in the road on their bike.
ill take your seething over a fine lol
A fine? What dystopian hellhole do you live in? Where I live in Indiana, almost no one rides in the street, always on the sidewalk, the only people ever riding in the street are those dorks in full underarmor outfits that revolve their entire life around being a bike owner. No one gets fined for riding in the sidewalk here, and I'm honestly horrified that that's a thing anywhere.
Why and how does that mean that? I've never had any issue riding around pedestrians.