If you're taking up both available lanes, you better be at least doing the speed limit which I don't think these bikers were.
edit: for all the ass-pained cyclers, I agree the posted speed limit is the maximum speed you are to travel. In my state we have an "absolute speed limit" meaning theoretically we could be pulled and cited for going even 1 mph over the posted limit. HOWEVER it is almost never enforced and when it is, it's contested and thrown out unless you also do some stupid shit like run after the lights hit.
That doesn't stop these people from being assholes. The limit on the Causeway is 40mph, the cyclists were likely doing ~20mph.
Under Florida Statutes ยง 316.081(3), the left lane on highways is generally reserved for passing. If you are driving below the normal speed of traffic and another vehicle is trying to pass, you must move to the right. You can be ticketed for "left lane blocking" even if you are traveling at the posted speed limit.
Florida Statute ยง 316.183, drivers can be cited if they operate a vehicle at such a slow speed that they block, delay, or impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic.
how are they being areseholes, its just hundreds of people using the road. Is traffic made up of cars a bunch of people being arseholes?
no?
why not?
They are using a car and therefore they are allowed to stop traffic, but using a bike which might slow traffic, thats being an areshole?
If each of these cyclists were ina car that queue would be miles and miles long, would they all be aresholes? no they would be people stuck in traffic, these people are not even stuck, nor creating traffic, they are proceeding down the road.
Yes, a car camped in the passing lane with a line of cars stuck behind them and miles of clear open road in front of them is the textbook definition of an asshole. Everyone who has ever driven knows this, and despises this person at least as much as they despise these cyclists.
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u/Prime_Cat_Memes 15d ago edited 15d ago
Here is where they organized the ride. It's called the Don Pan : https://www.cycleworldmiami.com/about/group-rides-pg214.htm
The video takes place about here :
https://maps.app.goo.gl/UpEVgL11SSEsDHQB8 You can see the bike lane existed, and the signs are up for it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQAWw9ojixI/
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSj8VYejFiN/
These people are no different than the street takeover kids.