Quote Originally Posted by Eden View Post
I agree with Sadie Kate - even if they were intentionally flouting the rules there is such a thing as responding with unnecessary force...
Stepping into the roadway to wave someone to a stop is not responding with unnecessary force.

Wow! We've got a bunch of people ignoring the traffic regulations, and cops only trying to do their jobs. I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no excuse for this behavior. If you think the rules are unreasonable, lobby to have them changed. But in the meantime it is NOT ok to keep breaking them and expect the cops to do nothing. And standing at the side of the road trying to wave a peloton traveling 30+ mph off to the side of the road amounts to nothing.

I've seen this attitude among cyclists so many times before. Club rides blasting through stop signs. Cyclists passing to the front of traffic at stop lights, or even running the light. I once watched a peloton "take the lane" - not just ONE lane, but ALL the lanes, going the WRONG WAY DOWN A ONE WAY STREET during a sponsored ride. When I asked someone I had recognized riding in the pack later that day why they had done it, he said, "Why not? There wasn't any traffic and it was shorter than the marked route on the ride".

They always justify it saying "it doesn't make sense, there was no traffic, it takes more energy to stop a bike and start again than it does a car, a bike's not the same as a car" etc etc etc.

It seems there's a significant contingent of cyclists that want the same rights as motor vehicles, but don't want to have to obey the same rules and laws.