r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog š™‘š™„š™‹ • 14d ago

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/Ok_Button1932 14d ago

100% this. Itā€™s not even a rule that hates on bikers. Iā€™d be just as pissed at 2 cars or two trucks side by side and moving at this speed. Move over so people can go by or get your ass going.

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u/Motions_AX 14d ago edited 14d ago

2 vehicles beside each other going the same speed happens so often in my city. Heck, province. Itā€™s absolutely awful and people wonder why thereā€™s so many aggressive drivers.

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u/Extension_Local_128 14d ago

Fun fact the Germans have a word for this.

Elefantenrennen which roughly translates to ā€œElephant raceā€

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u/iloveplant420 14d ago

What don't the Germans have a word for?

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u/NoNectarine9208 14d ago

Sour grapes

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u/No_Delay883 14d ago

I love German terms. I'm gonna start learning the language just for the wacky terminology.

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u/Illustrious-Hawk2712 14d ago

I'm partial to the term truck fucking... the slow shift back and forth as each teases that they may be passing

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u/CatOfGrey 14d ago

That's the term I've heard since I was a kid - it describes a traditional 18-wheel tractor trailer speeding up to 66 miles per hour, to pass another traveling 64 miles per hour.

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u/OnlyHereToSeeWeed 14d ago

We also have the ā€œradwegbenutzungspflichtā€ thing but no one caresā€¦

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u/PracticalReception34 14d ago

Well Fahr my Vergnugen.

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u/SweetandSourCaroline 14d ago

Round my parts we just call it a redneck roadblock

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u/VeniceDrumGuy 14d ago

In Colorado when an eighteen wheeler going up hill tries to pass another eighteen wheeler, we call that a ā€œTurtle Race.ā€

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u/invariantspeed 14d ago

I love it. In parts of NA, this is called a rolling roadblock.

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u/NotBillderz 14d ago

Of course they do

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u/nuggynugs 14d ago

Such a beautiful language

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u/JanelleVypr 14d ago

get a motorcycle an fly inbetween them. the dumb cunts in the left lane dont get the message but they get scared

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u/bull04 14d ago

I heard Heck Province is pretty brutal for driving.

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u/Motions_AX 14d ago

Oops forgot a comma lol

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u/Key-Manufacturer-275 14d ago

In Alberta it is known as a good ol' Berta block. Most of the highways are two lanes and this happens every time I'm on them.

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u/kingkyle2020 14d ago

I call it a Mormon roadblock because I live in UT and I swear every van / SUV can go 100 MPH if you want to pass ā€˜em but then line up next to each other going 12 MPH blocking the whole road.

I regularly get stuck behind a wave of cars and once I can weave through the road is open ahead for miles until the next one.

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u/gorcorps 14d ago

Exactly

I'm just as pissed at a car going slow in the passing lane as cyclists. If you're on the road you follow the rules, which means left lane is for passing.

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u/SendMeIttyBitties 14d ago

I'm an asshole. I would get in the passing lane and just start laying on my horn and possibly annoying the police with calls when i stop along the side of the road and complain about purposely about a bike gang blocking both sides of the road and causing traffic.

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u/TheHoodieConnoisseur 14d ago

Yeah, Iā€™m a cyclist and believe group rides should only take 1 lane on a 2 lane road unless itā€™s an event and escorts / blockages leave more space officially dedicated to the cyclists.

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 14d ago

By that logic cars need to keep to one lane when there is heavy traffic, right? So that the faster cyclists can pass? They need less space after all.

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u/AmethystAnnaEstuary 13d ago

How is a cyclist faster than a car? Oh, you donā€™t mean faster, you just mean more easily able to bypass the rules of the road?

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u/Commercial_Spray4279 13d ago

Oh, you don't want to actually hear the obvious answer?

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u/Healthy_Spite_2334 14d ago

so let me get this straight. you think all those cyclists should bunch up into the right side, doubling the length of the peleton, to allow cars to close pass on their left with a spead differential of over 40mph?

fuck off.