Kids on bicycles (RANT)

[thurmanmerman]

Colin;177626 wrote:
I also try to bike on the side walk. Then I got arrested for it. My father has gotten a speeding and running a stop sign ticket on his bike. It just sucks that the police don't enforce the bike laws more thoroughly.

How did you get arrested for riding your bike on the sidewalk?

[2slo50h]

Chinese Proverb? Not really, but still I ponder.

Why is that at least once a week, while riding my bike, some asshole passenger in a vehicle yells out the window to get a car?

Bicycle awarness is not what it should be. I assume it is even worse in Fargo than in the cities.

The other thing I love is seeing retards riding down the road with a bright reflective vest on, with no helmet. WHY?

[dubbsy]

2slo50h;178605 wrote:
Bicycle awarness is not what it should be. I assume it is even worse in Fargo than in the cities.

I was surprised as hell with the number of bikes I saw on the road down in the cities. Pilot Knob Road (a fairly busy 4 lane) was full of them from Farmington up to Eagan.

I myself would prefer riding on the sidewalk. Frankly I can't keep up with traffic and I know how much it bugs me when a lane is taken up in busy traffic by some guy on a bike.

[moparguy]

i know in Bismarck a few years back it was illegal to ride a bike on the sidewalk. I got a ticket for it about 8 years ago. I had no idea you had to ride your bike on the street, with alot of the drivers out there I sure wouldnt want to.

[Colin]

thurmanmerman;178367 wrote:
How did you get arrested for riding your bike on the sidewalk?

We were riding around hopping onto benches, grinding, flatland tricks, and I have been ticketed 5 times for riding on the sidewalk/destruction of property. This time a cop rolled by and said something, we (of course) responded with middle fingers and riding away. Then a K-9 unit ripped my buddy Rod off his bike, so we all pretty much gave up. I was cuffed and taken to the holding tanks, then charged something like $130 for improper use of a vehicle and fleeing an officer.

[ruthless351]

They pulled the same shit yesterday evening on 32nd as iwas going home. Some of them live in the apartments right across the street from the taco johns on 32nd on the ground level.

[2slo50h]

I was surprised as hell with the number of bikes I saw on the road down in the cities. Pilot Knob Road (a fairly busy 4 lane) was full of them from Farmington up to Eagan.

I just read somewhere that the cities are number two, only to Portland, in having the most amount of people who commute to work, by bicycle, in the US. When you add in the fact QBP is out the cities. (Quality Bicycle Products the largest distributer of bicycle parts, nearly evershop has there 1000 page cataloug on there front counter) it seems to make sense. Eriks bike shop is a top 5 distrubuter for Specialized, and Cannondale as well and Penn cycle was/is a 1 or 2 Trek from what I understand in the US.

We were riding around hopping onto benches, grinding, flatland tricks, and I have been ticketed 5 times for riding on the sidewalk/destruction of property. This time a cop rolled by and said something, we (of course) responded with middle fingers and riding away. Then a K-9 unit ripped my buddy Rod off his bike, so we all pretty much gave up. I was cuffed and taken to the holding tanks, then charged something like $130 for improper use of a vehicle and fleeing an officer.

Sounds to me like you instigated the issues and that you were not "Arrested for just riding a bike."

[assasain]

i would rather have people ride there bikes on the sidewalks personally.... if you can't keep up with traffic your asking for all kinds of trouble riding on the road...

i hate when people ride bikes on the road...

[ruthless351]

Ok......i was at wal-mart last night bout 10:30ish and i was just ready to wal into the front doors and some bosinan kids flew right in front of me and proceeded to ride their bike in the store. They were told to keep the bikes outside. What do they do??????/ Lay the bikes down in front of the doors. I heard an announcment for them to move the bikes. I cant stand some of these peoples kids. It drives me nuts!!!!!!!

[D S ohM]

ruthless351;178869 wrote:
Ok......i was at wal-mart last night bout 10:30ish and i was just ready to wal into the front doors and some **bosinan kids **flew right in front of me and proceeded to ride their bike in the store. They were told to keep the bikes outside. What do they do??????/ Lay the bikes down in front of the doors. I heard an announcment for them to move the bikes. I cant stand some of these peoples kids. It drives me nuts!!!!!!!

Go figure. They are the worst when it comes to respect. Always talkin bout how daddy's(our tax money) Mercedes whould "whoop" any car in this town. :cough:bullshit:cough:

[Guest]

D S ohM;178876 wrote:
Go figure. They are the worst when it comes to respect. Always talkin bout how daddy's(our tax money) Mercedes whould "whoop" any car in this town. :cough:bullshit:cough:

Not all of them live off the system. Some of the parents are here on J5 Visa's working in healthcare. It's too bad that the bad apples of the group fuck the image of the rest of them.

[D S ohM]

This is true. But you can tell the good ones from the bad ones.

[capitlj]

^^^^^^ You certainly can. Those kids at wal mart were locking up the back tires on the freshly painted parking lot so they could squeal the tires. I should have just stuck out my arm and clothslined the one closest to me

[thurmanmerman]

D S ohM;178931 wrote:
This is true. But you can tell the good ones from the bad ones.

So ohm which kind was your ex?

[JN210]

not all bosnians are bad just a handful, i know some bosnian guys that are pretty cool and respect everyone. Of course there is the fact that they have nice cars ( both drive lancer EVO's a red and black one) because the country gave them money.