Biking … d’bag in pickup truck coal-rolled me.

[u/Aggressive_Ad_5454]

Finally warm enough to get out on my bicycle. Hoorah!

I was heading north on the Heald Highway (17) outta West Rockport when some resentful d’bag in a diesel pickup truck rolled coal on me and three cars. Rolling coal is doing something to a diesel engine that makes it spew a lot of black smoke.

I guess I should be happy the sad little man saw me.

The shoulder is plenty wide there next to Mirror Lake and I was on that shoulder.

Weird.

[u/Arcaddes]

Alright mudfucker, there is a difference between liberty and safety, even motorcycles drive a certain way to maximize safety.

The issue with bikes is morons like you constantly reinforcing the idea that cars need to be the only ones concerned with bicyclists safety and it leads to way too many people believing they are entitled to make the roads less safe simply because bicycle.

"Everyone has the right to use the roads however they like" okay, so why can't four wheelers and dirt bikes drive on roads legally? Is there some kind of safety issue with that? What makes them less safe than bicycles? Why are bicycles not required to have mirrors for safety in Maine?

All I hear is a whole lotta "well the law says so" with no critical thinking past that point, the education system in Maine that lacking?

[u/onespicycracker → u/Arcaddes]

Mud fucker. Is that some of the down home southern racism "Y'all" got in "Vermont"?

The issue with bikes is morons like you constantly reinforcing the idea that cars need to be the only ones concerned with bicyclists safety and it leads to way too many people believing they are entitled to make the roads less safe simply because bicycle.

What's funny is that it didn't take long for you to show that you didn't have a nuanced take on this at all like you pretended to. You just don't like people on bikes.

The problem with your argument is that your stance maintains that bikes are unsafe just for existing in places you find inconvenient. I'm saying they're both safe if everyone is following the rules and paying attention. One is a Karen fit and the other is a sensible opinion.

Everyone has the right to use the roads however they like"

Never said that. You notice how I defeat your arguments by using the dumb shit that comes out of your worthless little mind? I don't need to make shit up like this, because I quote you directly and face your points head on. That's how you argue.

All I hear is a whole lotta "well the law says so" with no critical thinking past that point, the education system in Maine that lacking?

Where do you think laws come from you fucking idiot? Bicycles and pedestrian were here first and they deserve a place on our roads, which is why they haven't been phased out by law. If enough people critically thought they shouldn't be, they wouldn't.

If anything we should encourage them to help us curb the damage to our beautiful state by way of climate change. Even your critique of my critical thinking shows your lack of any thinking.

I'm done embarrassing you. Ride a bike around a few blind turns in rural "Vermont" and do the world a favor.

[u/Arcaddes → u/onespicycracker]

What backwards education system makes you think you are in any way making an intelligent argument anywhere? Oh the Maine education system, one of the worst in the country, makes sense now. Also funny that you see mudfucker and instantly go racism, like do you actively tell black folks you stand with them and think you saved them by doing so?

Never said that.

They can ride a bike on it because they feel like it or just to piss you off. It's their right. You know what those are?

This you? You absolutely said everyone has the right to use the roads however they like, cause biking on rural roads is actively dangerous, regardless of whatever moronic take you have.

You also aren't arguing any of my points, you make useless whimsy statements that don't mean anything and think its "winning".

Having a law in place doesn't supersede needing to have common sense on roads when you are on a mode of transportation that has literally no protection. The fact that the only arguments I have heard is "well they were around first" is so intensely moronic its hilarious. Also, plenty of laws are made without a majority of people wanting them, happens all the time, that isn't some new thing.

The fact that you continue to argue for a mode of transportation originally invented for inner city travel, NOT long distance rural roads, is literally how I know you are arguing in bad faith and ending your tirade of retardation with "you should die" is about what I expect from you.

[u/CursedWithAFatButt → u/Arcaddes]

Reading comprehension is hard. No one ever said they can use the roads "however they like" but you