Geen probleem, dan pak ik wel de elektrische step en rij ik op het voetpad.
I don’t remember these Bon jovi lyrics. Must be an unreleased demo
Technically true, but the fact that the sign is there because there is street parking *on both sides* really irks me. Even then, the road seems wide enough to allow a car to safely cross a bicycle from the opposite side, the sign seems to be put up with only cars in mind.
I’m a cyclist myself, but the blatant privilege some display is baffling. From speed pedelecs acting as the own the fietssnelwegen, barely touching shoulders when passing me, to the bakfietsen blocking sidewalks.
When I lived in the Rue Haute/Hoogstraat in Brussels, wich is a one way street (also for cyclists) barely wide enough for the myriad of busses and ambulances, many cyclist would ride in the opposite direction anyway and yell and scold at the cars and busses when (obviously) there wasn’t enough room to pass them. All of them too privileged to take the parallel street 50 m further.
With roads like that, even if you have to follow what’s on the pole, sometimes they don’t make sense or the pole is wrong. I checked on OSM (onewaybicycle:yes) and the pole matches the rules in Boom. You can still send a message to your council to propose a two-way for bicycles.
As a car driver and not a cyclist at all: even though you are technically not allowed there, i will have no issue folding my mirrors and giving you a pass, because everyone understands in thos case it is not a big deal.
Shot through the street and you’re to blame. Darling, you give cyclists a bad name 🎸
wat voor een zure bedoening is deze post lmfao doe uw eigen ding, wil jij niet tegenrichting rijden rijd dan om. live and let live. is nog niemand van gestorven in die straat
I tend to avoid riding in the opposite direction of cars, even when there’s an indication that it’s allowed. In my early days of commuting by bike, a car wasn’t paying that much attention to the road (“because it’s a one-way street anyways”), so I had to quickly evade him by turning to the sidewalk. I wasn’t quick enough to get out of my clipless pedals, which resulted in me falling.
Anywho, this seems to be a good place to drop a rant about something I saw fellow cyclists do this morning, so here goes :
In a village center (30 km/h), there were 2 cyclists in front of me cycling next to each other, riding at 20-25 km/h. The left person was in full cyclotourist outfit (just like me) and either on a mountain bike or a pedelec, the right person in regular clothes and on a regular bike. They come up to a tunnel underneath the train tracks, where there’s a bike lane separated from the main road, and the speed limit increases to 50 km/h. Mr. pedelec (I assume) decides to NOT ride in front or behind the other person, but instead **on the road, while maintaining the same slow speed!** I’ve seen my share of dangerous/stupid things that cyclists do, but damn. I know pedelecs are allowed to ride on roads with a 50 km/h speed limit, but then they should ride at a speed that’s closer to 50, not 20!
I mean, I can’t blame any cyclist that does pass through here. What does it matter? You have to move your steering wheel slightly to the right? The horror
jesus christ. my father would say 2 trucks would be able to pass in this street.
cyclists are not allowed but definitely should be… belgium should really invest into being more bike friendly.
its healthy, better for the environment, better against congestion and cheap in the end.
the saying is “if you build it, they will come”. see cycle infratsructure in denmark, the netherlands or even new york. its massively adopted.
Until bike infrastructure receives the same attention and funding as car-based infrastructure, I bike in that street.
Sorry not sorry.
I swear this sub has only two subjects : Cyclists bad and Brussels bad…
Mate, if even with the busses passing through there is plenty of space for a bike. I know, I live here and am a bicyclist.
“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you’re no longer a cyclist”
– Ayrton Senna, probably
Guilty as charged.
I, as a cyclist pas here 2 times a week. I was never aware of it till a car honcked the sh*t out of me last year.
I tried to take the normal way via Staionsstraat and Vrijheidsstraat which is way more dangerous with al the cracks in the road en the 2 blind left corners, let alone the passegeners getting of the train.
So now, if no car is getting in the street I ‘take the risk’, the street is wilde enough, and ride straight ahead for 20 secondes.
Just 2 hours ago I was pointing out that whenever a car driver breaks the law, car drivers are quick to try and distance themselves. “It was a BMW driver again”. It’s never “all car drivers” that are bad in their eyes.
Meanwhile, when a cyclist does something bad it’s immediately all cyclists that are targetted. It’s never “the trek bicyclists”.
This thread is another prime example of that.
Technicly a car needs to be 1 meters away from a bike to legally pass it overtake one. I think the local gouvernement thought it might be a little too tight.
At no point does that sign stop anyone on any type of two wheeled vehicle.
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Geen probleem, dan pak ik wel de elektrische step en rij ik op het voetpad.
I don’t remember these Bon jovi lyrics. Must be an unreleased demo
Technically true, but the fact that the sign is there because there is street parking *on both sides* really irks me. Even then, the road seems wide enough to allow a car to safely cross a bicycle from the opposite side, the sign seems to be put up with only cars in mind.
This kind of setup gives cars a bad name ¯_(ツ)_/¯
https://preview.redd.it/k24qa8jzxxif1.png?width=723&format=png&auto=webp&s=8853b207d6ac80e93f6367eb2d2e2a9f1dc584a2
Yeah, cyclists, you said… ?
Technically, this sign HAS to be accompanied by an “except cyclists” sign for a road with that width.
Wait, you mean traffic signs and road markings are also applicable for cyclists? /s
It’s horrific to see how many times cyclists ignore these signs and the shark teeth markings on the road.
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Wel dwaas dat er geen “uitgezonderd fietsers” bord naast hangt. De weg lijkt meer dan breed genoeg om veilig het tegemoetkomend verkeer te passeren
Oplossing: verwijder de parkeerplaatsen aan één kant en plaats een fietspad. Iedereen gelukkig.
Based on your picture. I think that Audi is parked illegally as well.
Ofc there is street parking on both sides…
Looool look at how wide this street is. Thats one heck of a car-centered post. Give cyclists a break ffs
[This is the reason.](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0919475,4.3635522,3a,69.3y,29.19h,88.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s2PVjsuL43HLhaMOfg-jT3Q!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.4833942868562389%26panoid%3D2PVjsuL43HLhaMOfg-jT3Q%26yaw%3D29.192905774571308!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDgxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) If you are coming off this bike path and are continuing to the Broekweg I can see why people might say “fuck it” instead of looping around.
Where is it?
I’m a cyclist myself, but the blatant privilege some display is baffling. From speed pedelecs acting as the own the fietssnelwegen, barely touching shoulders when passing me, to the bakfietsen blocking sidewalks.
When I lived in the Rue Haute/Hoogstraat in Brussels, wich is a one way street (also for cyclists) barely wide enough for the myriad of busses and ambulances, many cyclist would ride in the opposite direction anyway and yell and scold at the cars and busses when (obviously) there wasn’t enough room to pass them. All of them too privileged to take the parallel street 50 m further.
With roads like that, even if you have to follow what’s on the pole, sometimes they don’t make sense or the pole is wrong. I checked on OSM (onewaybicycle:yes) and the pole matches the rules in Boom. You can still send a message to your council to propose a two-way for bicycles.
As a car driver and not a cyclist at all: even though you are technically not allowed there, i will have no issue folding my mirrors and giving you a pass, because everyone understands in thos case it is not a big deal.
Shot through the street and you’re to blame. Darling, you give cyclists a bad name 🎸
wat voor een zure bedoening is deze post lmfao doe uw eigen ding, wil jij niet tegenrichting rijden rijd dan om. live and let live. is nog niemand van gestorven in die straat
I tend to avoid riding in the opposite direction of cars, even when there’s an indication that it’s allowed. In my early days of commuting by bike, a car wasn’t paying that much attention to the road (“because it’s a one-way street anyways”), so I had to quickly evade him by turning to the sidewalk. I wasn’t quick enough to get out of my clipless pedals, which resulted in me falling.
Anywho, this seems to be a good place to drop a rant about something I saw fellow cyclists do this morning, so here goes :
In a village center (30 km/h), there were 2 cyclists in front of me cycling next to each other, riding at 20-25 km/h. The left person was in full cyclotourist outfit (just like me) and either on a mountain bike or a pedelec, the right person in regular clothes and on a regular bike. They come up to a tunnel underneath the train tracks, where there’s a bike lane separated from the main road, and the speed limit increases to 50 km/h. Mr. pedelec (I assume) decides to NOT ride in front or behind the other person, but instead **on the road, while maintaining the same slow speed!** I’ve seen my share of dangerous/stupid things that cyclists do, but damn. I know pedelecs are allowed to ride on roads with a 50 km/h speed limit, but then they should ride at a speed that’s closer to 50, not 20!
I mean, I can’t blame any cyclist that does pass through here. What does it matter? You have to move your steering wheel slightly to the right? The horror
jesus christ. my father would say 2 trucks would be able to pass in this street.
cyclists are not allowed but definitely should be… belgium should really invest into being more bike friendly.
its healthy, better for the environment, better against congestion and cheap in the end.
the saying is “if you build it, they will come”. see cycle infratsructure in denmark, the netherlands or even new york. its massively adopted.
Until bike infrastructure receives the same attention and funding as car-based infrastructure, I bike in that street.
Sorry not sorry.
I swear this sub has only two subjects : Cyclists bad and Brussels bad…
Mate, if even with the busses passing through there is plenty of space for a bike. I know, I live here and am a bicyclist.
“If you no longer go for a gap that exists, you’re no longer a cyclist”
– Ayrton Senna, probably
Guilty as charged.
I, as a cyclist pas here 2 times a week. I was never aware of it till a car honcked the sh*t out of me last year.
I tried to take the normal way via Staionsstraat and Vrijheidsstraat which is way more dangerous with al the cracks in the road en the 2 blind left corners, let alone the passegeners getting of the train.
So now, if no car is getting in the street I ‘take the risk’, the street is wilde enough, and ride straight ahead for 20 secondes.
Just 2 hours ago I was pointing out that whenever a car driver breaks the law, car drivers are quick to try and distance themselves. “It was a BMW driver again”. It’s never “all car drivers” that are bad in their eyes.
Meanwhile, when a cyclist does something bad it’s immediately all cyclists that are targetted. It’s never “the trek bicyclists”.
This thread is another prime example of that.
Technicly a car needs to be 1 meters away from a bike to legally pass it overtake one. I think the local gouvernement thought it might be a little too tight.
At no point does that sign stop anyone on any type of two wheeled vehicle.
Verwijderd , was inderdaad een domme vraag 😅
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