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.

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[–] 21 points 5 days ago*

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

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  • [–] 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 74 points 6 days ago (26 children)

    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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    [–] 85 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    Wouldn't the road be closed for cars? At least no one died

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    [–] 55 points 6 days ago* (53 children)

    Based on most of the comments here so far, you all hate cyclists more than cars.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 days ago (22 children)

    I'm a cyclist and when I'm on a bike I try to use the road responsibly. If I'm no a long climb going 10km/h with cars behind me I try to stop when possible and let them pass safely. I don't ride next to someone else chatting and blocking the entire lane. I don't ride on roads with speed limits over 60km/h. I would never do what they are doing in the video. It's just disrespectful and causing unnecessary tension between drivers and cyclists.

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    [–] 27 points 6 days ago (20 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    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.

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    [–] 43 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    All the LOCAL drivers know to expect it. If someone is from out of town they would have no way of knowing that happens on that road unless there are signs posted or something. The dude is still a dipshit though.

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    [–] 25 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    "Share the road" goes both ways. It's a two way street so to say.

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    [–] 26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    I see the highest throughput of people that road had all week now that it isn't blocked by cars for once.

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    [–] 29 points 6 days ago (11 children)

    Know what solves this. Protected bike infrastructure that segregates car and cycling traffic. You all are making good points on both sides. But if the two types of traffic never interact this becomes a non-issue.

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    [–] 37 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Was anyone else hoping he would have hit a hidden ditch and wrecked his car?

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    [–] 39 points 6 days ago

    Actually admire some one taking a mini back to its rally roots

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  • [–] 30 points 6 days ago (7 children)

    The cyclists have every right to use that road as cars.

    End of story. Grow the fuck up, motorists.

    You're going to get where you're going a minute or two later than you wanted. Big fucking deal.

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    [–] 10 points 5 days ago (36 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 days ago (18 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (13 children)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago* (6 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 24 points 6 days ago

    Ok but why not block the road or have at least one lane open? No one's using the right lane it seems.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    South Parks season premiere hasn't aged at all

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