Rollin Coal.

[jet66]

I haven't seen too many people 'rollin' coal,' and I live in a fairly rural area. (Just about every house has a truck of some flavor.) Plenty of freight train-class airhorns, though... We do have the deluge of cyclists, though. They'll gather at one of the major corners when they meet up with no qualms about blocking the intersection, and they ride hogging up both lanes of the two-lane road, as well as blowing through stop signs. They are the worst sort of self-righteous selfish douchebags.

[jpmuscle]

I haven't seen too many people 'rollin' coal,' and I live in a fairly rural area. (Just about every house has a truck of some flavor.) Plenty of freight train-class airhorns, though... We do have the deluge of cyclists, though. They'll gather at one of the major corners when they meet up with no qualms about blocking the intersection, and they ride hogging up both lanes of the two-lane road, as well as blowing through stop signs. They are the worst sort of self-righteous selfish douchebags.

We have a crew of approximately 25-30 in my area that are sponsored by a local cycling shop. They dress up like a swarm of homosexual honey bees and then set out on crusade of a*shaddery on a nightly basis throughout the local community. Self-righteous D bags doesn't even begin to describe it. And god help you if get stuck behind them at a intersection and they don't know which way to go.

[An Undocumented Worker]

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2013/J...-enrd-077.html

WASHINGTON –In a settlement with the United States on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, automotive electronics manufacturer Edge Products LLC (Edge) has agreed to pay a $500,000 civil penalty for manufacturing and selling electronic devices that allowed owners of model year 2007 and later diesel pickup trucks to remove emission controls from their vehicles. Diesel trucks that are not equipped with emission controls known as “diesel particulate filters” emit excess particulate matter (PM). When running, trucks without these types of controls leave behind a trail of dark, black smoke. PM is associated with a number of health problems, including respiratory and cardiovascular disease, chronic bronchitis, decreased lung function, and an increased risk of lung cancer.

The company, located in Ogden, Utah, sold more than 9,000 of these electronic devices nationwide, resulting in an estimated 158 tons of excess PM emissions released into the atmosphere. This is equivalent to the emissions from 422 new long-haul semi trucks operating for a period of 29 years.

“The Department of Justice will continue to vigilantly protect America’s health and environment through the enforcement of the Clean Air Act standards governing emissions from vehicles and engines,” said Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. “This settlement holds Edge Products accountable for selling devices that allow consumers to disable the emission controls on their vehicles by requiring the company to pay a penalty, buy back the devices, and perform a project to offset the air pollution resulting from the Clean Air Act violations.”

[jpmuscle]

Gov sucks, like usual. They would really hate a buddy of mine who home brews his own fuel for his 7.3l power stroke using used motor oil.

[An Undocumented Worker]

Would you rather be breathing in all kinds of wonderfully noxious fumes while sitting in traffic?

[bluejackets92fs]

I had some guy pull up on me in stop and go traffic that decided he wanted to "roll coal" into my open windows. I decided to throw a snapple bottle I happened to have inside the car through the back window of his truck a little later before exiting the highway. Looking back I probably shouldn't have but I lost all emotion on that a-hole. I bet that was the last time he thought it would be a good idea to do that.

[jmp45]

We run with windows up, air on. Keeps the noise and smoke out. I'd rather not breath that crap if I can avoid it.

[Dead Man]

Someday, I'm going to catch up to some mother****er doing that to bicyclists, and he's going to be surprised what a scrawny guy in Lycra can do. I'm not even kidding: I've got a clean record, I'd get probation and a little community service, tops.

I've never been fogged out personally, but I'm probably one of the only bicyclists I know who hasn't, several times. The best roads to ride are wide open country roads in the hills, where there's good climbing, few people, lots of sun and trees and scenery, and no traffic. Unfortunately, this is also redneck ****ville USA, and white trash confederate-flag flying pieces of shit love an opportunity to harass a "Lance-Armstrong wannabe" (doesn't that phrase ever get old? As if there aren't a thousand other professional cyclists a person might want to ride like- Lance hasn't ridden professionally in 4 years).

Around half of the cyclists I know are moderate conservative, many own and even carry guns. The other half are moderate liberals. We generally stop at stop signs, but just like you, we also sometimes sort of roll through, if it's totally safe to do so. We stay as far right as practicable, as just about every state law requires, but we also take advantage of the fact that on narrow lanes, we're entitled and encouraged to take the whole lane, because it's not safe to try to "squeeze" past- execute a full lane pass, just like you would for a mailman, a tractor, someone on horseback, a moped, etc. We are not any different than any other form of traffic, equally entitled to use the road, and boo-fing-hooo if you have to reduce your speed for 6 or 7 seconds to get past us and likely never have to see us again for the rest of your life.

I went out for a climb last night. The road I wanted to climb was real back-woods; abandoned, only the occasional trailer sitting on blocks with a dirt driveway, and pretty much zero traffic. Especially on the weekends. To get there, you have to ride about 5 miles up a "highway" that's almost equally as desolate. Long stretches of straight road with perfect line of sight. I saw perhaps twenty cars the whole ride in. If there was 3 inches of shoulder to the right of the fog line, I rode in it; despite having full legislative right to ride right smack in the middle of the lane if I chose to. Most passed without incident. Several revved their engines at me, two honked at me angrily, and one actually slowed down so the passenger could tell me "you're not very bright, asshole!" This isn't a biker-friendly area. It's where I live, though, so it's also where I ride.

20 cars. 5 miles at 15 MPH (it was all uphill) is 20 minutes spent on the highway. I saw an average of a single car per minute. At no point did directions of traffic overlap. No one even had to slow down to pass me. But I'm "not very bright," and an "asshole" because I'm......... what?

I'm growing more and more contemptuous for peoples' contempt for bicyclists. All we ever do is mind our own business. I've ridden with thousands of people on dozens of organized events, road races, and group rides, and I can count the number of self-entitled or inconsiderate or grossly unsafe or illegal acts on one hand and still be able to pick my nose with the same hand. We're so outnumbered, out-weighted, and ostracized by the public that we do the best we can to be well-behaved, do what we can to keep appearances up, and keep our sport as unmolested as possible.

I call complete bullshit to these broad generalizations. No tolerance for your ignorant bullshit. And **** you, too.

[JBecker 72]

While driving my work truck a while back, an F350 6.0 that doesn't really smoke much I got heckled by a Prius driving douche at a stop light. When the light turned green I launched that thing like a pro leaving the dude in a cloud of soot and shame. If you let it load up and then floor it you get a decent black cloud.

Regarding bicyclists, there is a good reason why I ride a mountain bike and not a road bike. 1 I don't want to be on the road and 2 I don't want to be riding a bike on the same road as some of these guys in this thread. lol

[BrigandTwoFour]

When I lived in central Montana, I saw guys doing this kind of crap all the time from light to light. Now living on the central coast of CA, not so much (despite there being way more large trucks).

I tend to ride a city bike to get around for short trips and wear normal clothes. Generally, I don't have any issues with cage drivers harassing me. I do obey traffic signs and follow rules of the rode, staying out of the way as much as practical. But I have certainly seen the spandex crowd take some shit (a lot of it earned, though, as I've seen some cyclists participate in some supreme douchebaggery).