Mini Rant on Rider Entitlement

[ThisBitch]

To extend your analogy, they may be operating differently, but they are both bound by the same laws of physics. That's the point that I'm trying to make. Yes, there are differences, but both bikers and drivers alike are bound by the laws of the road, and should adhere to them. Neither is entitled or privileged to some additional unwritten rights. I agree completely there are too many distracted drivers on the road today, but riding the yellows isn't helping the cause, or making riding any safer.

I totally agree with you in this post, as well as the first. I just moved from CA, where riders are allowed to share lanes with vehicles in rush hour traffic. But of course, as with anything, a select few cuntbags take it too far. I was doing 80 on 101 in CA one day and got split by some asshats on Harleys that had to have been doing 110 THROUGH cars with girls on the backs of their bikes in skull buckets. It made me sick. Its one thing to go tear through twisties in the middle of nowhere and maybe kill yourself, but to put yourself, your "girlfriend" and other drivers at risk, for what?

I especially don't understand it in San Jose, a place where NO ONE uses turn signals.

[Wanderer]

Took me a long time to get used to not lanesplitting, not filtering at lights and in slow/stopped traffic when i moved over from the UK. I guess its a lot about perspective. If I try the same in MA, people see it as a bike rider not playing by the rules and acting entitled - on the flip side, behavior like the OP saw is just plain stupid on behalf of the rider.

[BluGixxer]

Ranting about asshat riders on cruisers, I got a good one !
I'm assuming most people on this forrum ride sport bikes (skinny) and not cruisers (wide). So all of us get in a cage once in awhile and see driving from a different view.
Cruisers riding in pairs (side by side) , full luggage bags ,mirrors sticking out, what gives them the right to ride side by side where they don't ft ,sticking over the yellow line, I know if I tag one of there mirrors some day its gonna be my fault, but why, when I ride I make sure there is no way , no chance of even comming close to oncomming traffic. I drive a full size pickup, it needs most of the road provided, I cringe when I see these asshats side by side who don't know how to go around a bend, comming at me, all I can think of is my insurance going up when one of these idiots smacks my mirror and uses the side of my truck to help them steer around the corner, I will stop yelling now, thankyou

[benVFR]

Sounds like he was being a dick passing the line of cars in a "no split" state but technically you were entering traffic from a parking lot and he was already in the road, so he had the right of way.

When you are entering the roadway no one is obligated to yield so you can enter traffic.

Overall.. yah, lots of rider entitlement out there. A lot of the city cases are exactly the same crap bicyclists are pulling as bicycles get more popular.