Is riding your bike on the sidewalk bad manners?

[ssBaldy]

Depends on where are you riding. I avoid riding on pavements, especially busy ones. However, it is nigh impossible to ride on bike lanes in Moscow since there are few of them and where they do exist fucking pedestrians dont respect them at all and walk with their damn dogs, strollers and kids there. So it is either the road if you are skilled or pavement if you are not.

 

[Misanthropist]

I ride on path whenever I feel the road is not safe or the gap is tiny all the time and never got stopped by anyone.

My safety > rest.

 

[gatchaman]

i went for a ride today through a neighborhood, pretty wealthy, and a lady talking to another lady in her yard seemed to give the the eye because I was riding on the side walk

is it bad form?

You don't know her story. It could be that the neighborhood has been beset by porch pirates cruising the sidewalks on bikes, scouting for packages. I've been shouted at to get off the road and onto the sidewalk by motorists who thought they knew better. In my city, it's actually legal to ride on the sidewalk with wheel diameter 50 cm or less, but I reckon few know the law. Personally, I try to ride where/when there are few people about, and I try not to be a Karen about people not committing themselves to following all the rules.

 

[Merlotte's]

Bike where there’s space to do so. Fuck the regulations.

 

[fungi]

Yes.

Bicycle or motorcycle? The latter is illegal. And one should be jail for such behaviour.

 

[fungi]

Bike where there’s space to do so. Fuck the regulations.

Fuck the police. Leave the regulations alone.

 

[DoubleThink]

It's possible to cycle at a pedestrian pace on the pavement, which would actually take up a smaller footprint than pushing the bicycle.

 

[genecop]

Nicer neighborhoods don’t have sidewalks..

 

[GSP_37]

When I'm driving a car, I prefer bikes on sidewalk. When I'm walking on sidewalk, I prefer bikes on the street.

 

[Alphaboy]

Yes, unless you're a little kid.

 

[Iroh]

Being in a bicycle culture, everyone has a bike here. I remember when they made it illegal here to drive on the pavewalks, in the ninetees. And I would ride on them all the time as a kid, so I was somewhat concerned. But it turned out to be nothing drastic and I still ride on them on occasion if it's the most practical option.

 

[El_Dyablo619]

Maybe they thought you were low class, hence the sneering

 

[elreece]

if you ride a bike over the age of 16 you are a homo

 

[BigDaddyCoolDiesel]

Adults who ride on bicycles are assholes.

Fixed it for you.

 

[Anewt]

As long as you give right of way to pedestrians and you get off the path not others... no biggie.

 

[BigDaddyCoolDiesel]

Being in a bicycle culture, everyone has a bike here.

Where do you live, Neverland?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

i went for a ride today through a neighborhood, pretty wealthy, and a lady talking to another lady in her yard seemed to give the the eye because I was riding on the side walk

is it bad form?

 

[JSN]

Go at a walking pace if you’re near pedestrians.

 

[Theoctagon]

My wife just bought us mountain bikes. Judging from the comments apparently I'm a homo and have to divorce her now.

 

[Iroh]

Where do you live, Neverland?

Close, The Netherlands