For all the reasons we should bike commute, mine is perhaps the most obtuse.
I hate the way people are on the freeways.
And it's not a matter of lane changing, or speed, or in attention due to cell phones.. etc.
It's a matter of helping a fellow human, or fixing a problem when you see it.
A guy is broken down in traffic in the second lane. Traffic is already at a virtual stand still. I stop, I get out, I help him push the car to the side of the road. He tells me that everyone just honked and gave him "hand signals". Why don't people stop and help?
Today, there's a huge sheet of plastic in the road. People swerve to avoid it, and it's getting rapped up on cars.. So I stop to pick it up. Someone pulls up beside me and tells me a few choice things about "playing in traffic". I fail to understand why if there's a hazard, and someone is clearing it up, why people should be so angry or upset?
It just boggles my mind that people will not do basic, human things, such as help eachother out, or elminate something that affects everyone.
This is why I enjoy riding my bike more. And I'll probably ride more.
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For all the reasons we should bike commute, mine is perhaps the most obtuse.
this is a big part of why i commute also.
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Your reason is not so obtuse.
I hate driving also - I hate the stress of it.
You know, if I took as much time driving as I do bicycling, it would be a lot less stressful on me (but much more stressful on other drivers).
Maybe I should try that sometime; give myself an hour to drive to work and drive at 18 mph all the way. That would be the only way I could fairly compare the stress level of driving to bicycling.
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nah doesnt work when you drive slow, or actually just drive the posted speed limit you spend the hole time dealing with people tryin to drive up your tail pipe so the can get to the red light 5 seconds sooner. ends up bein just as stressful as driveing in the end.
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So why is that? Why is it that so many cyclists seem happy to help each other fix even relatively minor problems like flats, yet drivers won't even get out of the way of an emergency vehicle (as I noticed this evening on my commute)? I hope they got that fire out.
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I think there is a certain feeling of "community" within cyclists.
we've all been on the side of the road with a flat and are happy to help out.
don't know why drivers don't get this. maybe there's too many of them.
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They're in a hurry, they have no time to help others, listen to the birds, give someone the right of way, stop and watch the ducks in the pond or stop to smell the flowers on the side of the road. their world is moving far too fast for anything, in fact it's going right by and they don't even notice the things that are free and worth appreciating, the things that count, the ones that will be gone forever if not noticed when they present themselves. I pitty them, think of the stress they must have. Oh well, I ride a bike, see most things and enjoy life at a pace I can handle. I help others when they need help and take whatever time it takes to get where I'm going. The people in my life have learned to accept my way of travel, sometimes they wait and sometimes they don't. Slow down, smell the flowers, each one will present it's beauty and then dry up and never return, there are no two the same.
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i think it's because in general motorists are just mad at the world, i know i am when im in my car, and i have no idea why. complete oposite when i'm on my bike.
hmm maybe if i drove a ferrari instead of a tercel it would help .
lol but probably not.
(锕侊箒)~~~~---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Chris L So why is that?
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That's my question too.
(锕侊箒)~~~~---------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by shaharidan i think it's because in general motorists are just mad at the world, i know i am when im in my car, and i have no idea why. complete oposite when i'm on my bike....
when you drive slow, or actually just drive the posted speed limit you spend the hole time dealing with people tryin to drive up your tail pipe so the can get to the red light 5 seconds sooner. ends up bein just as stressful as driveing in the end.
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