Originally Posted by
Digger Goreman
You want to start a fight with a motorist, don't use the F-bomb, just say W A I T !
If it were 75 of anything else larger than a bike, they'd suck it up.... There are no secondary citizens (or road users). There are only inconvenienced motor heads acting privileged....
Oh, cyclists aren't "holding up" traffic, they ARE traffic!!!
Well, unless you're stuck behind an invading army, parade or funeral procession, when the hell are you stuck behind 75 of anything but bicyclists?
No one automatically has the privilege of restraining the other traffic in order to keep a large assemblage intact. Generally, other vehicles would have to get permits to get the special accommodations needed to keep the group rolling together.
Please spare us the empty "they are traffic" rhetoric. No one disputes that cars and trucks are traffic, yet they can and are ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic unreasonably.
This is obviously cyclists acting as privileged. No one else would expect everyone else to yield so they can maintain an unreasonably large group of vehicles. Sorry, but I don't recognize "75 of us think it's fun to take a ride together down a hill" as a use of the road anyone else should be required to accommodate. Responsibly sized groups and single riders obeying applicable traffic laws, absolutely, but the size of this group is completely unreasonable for where they're riding and how.