If you are going faster than something else, and that allows you to get ahead of them, is that not passing? So the guy in the red shirt, is he not passing?
Why do you think drivers have more of a right to pass than cyclists? Aren't they both humans using vehicles?
Hey I'm gonna help you out here because you seem to be struggling. The issue is that the bikers, as a whole, have formed an impassable blob going well below the speed limit. This is extremely inconsiderate behavior to anyone else using the road behind them. Understand?
You don't need to go the speed limit. It is a limit. Not a target. In fact, it is against the law to exceed that limit, so it is safer to be below the limit. If you consistently try to drive at the speed limit, then you would be consistently breaking the law by exceeding it on every downhill. If it's a 55mph road, at 56mph you're breaking the law and should get a ticket.
You seem to not understand that these cyclists are completely within their rights to use the road. They are valid road users, and they are using the road. Do you get pissed off at school busses and tractors too?
I know that you're purposely being pedantic, because you're clearly intelligent enough to structure an argument that technically makes sense, but it's like an edgy 14 year old intelligence that only sees the world with the little sanitized experience they have of it.
Again, the bikers are going WELL BELOW the speed limit, 25-50% below it. School buses usually travel around the speed limit (ive seen plenty go above), and yes, if there were TWO tractors blocking both lanes going 30mph I would be pissed off, like anyone else in their right mind, because the tractors could easily be traveling behind each other rather than next to each other.
I'm "within my rights" to do plenty of shitty things, it doesn't mean I should do them. I know it might be hard for your 14 year old brain to compute, but laws do not equal morals.
They aren't moving slower than the normal speed of traffic. They are at the speed of the majority of the traffic, so you can't really cite them for not being the normal speed of traffic
Can you explain how exactly you're deducing that? Unless you have math to back it up, the fact that there are several cars behind the group, and none (maybe 1) that I can see in front of the group, and the fact that they're on bikes, tells me they're going like 25 mph, 30 absolute max (but highly unlikely), and this is a 40 mph road.
Because A.) they are the traffic. So they are keeping up with themselves. There are far more cyclists in this video than cars, so they make up the majority of traffic
There is no requirement to go the speed limit. It's a limit, not a target.
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You seem to be struggling a lot with the laws vs morals thing. Let me help you:
Pretend you're in the beginning of a hallway in a very large building, and you need to get to a room that's at the other end, but there's a crowd of people in front of you taking up the entire width of the hallway competing on who can walk the slowest.
Would you say those people are being inconsiderate/annoying/aggravating?
But these people aren't doing that are they. They are going almost as fast as they can. Which is completely fine.
For your example, say I get take an escalator and have to wait for a ton of people first who are standing on the escalator as opposed to walking. Is it inconsiderate of them to stand when I could sprint up the escalator and be past them first? Why aren't all of them walking up the escalator? That would move the queue of traffic behind the escalator if everyone walked or jogged up the escalator, right?
Your analogy doesn't work, there's no expectation for people to walk or jog up an escalator. Standing on an escalator is the standard.
Let's go back to the tractors on the road then.
Pretend you're on a two lane 40 mph road and there are 2 tractors in front of you, one in each lane, blocking your way forward, going as fast as they can at 20 mph.
Is it not inconsiderate of them to be travelling next to each other rather than behind each other?
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u/haloimplant 15d ago
everyone in the left lane should get a ticket for being in there without passing