Bicycles on sidewalks...
 

*sigh* see it quite often. Perhaps they feel unsafe in the multi-modal lane...I don't really care. If you're too afraid to ride where you belong then you don't belong on a bike. Oh, and while we're at it...wear a helmet. It might make you sweat and mess up your hair, but at least you won't be in a wheel chair steering with your chin.

Nice walk today...no fools on the sidewalk...thanks....

The 2015 Florida Statutes
316.2065 Bicycle regulations
(10) A person propelling a bicycle upon and along a sidewalk, or across a roadway upon and along a crosswalk, shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian. SNIP.....

Riding a bicycle on a sidewalk looks legal to me. By the way all bicycle laws apply to Segways to.

Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine

Just the other morning
I was approaching the intersection of
To Jay's and Sonny's.When a group of about 30 bikes all decided not to stop at the stop sign. like it was their right.

Same old gripes coming up time and time again - yawn!

:bigbow::spoken:

AGREE!! getting really old about the bikes all the time.
GOlf Carts,, Motorcycles,, Cars,, Trucks roll thru them all the time,,

This is a retirement community is it not,,, Park you cars and ride bikes,, walk,, jog enjoy life,,, you just might have to leave earlier to get your coffee spot in line at Starbucks..

Bikes on the sidewalks in the squares are not legal. But, bikes are legal on all other sidewalks.

Must ride a bike :crap2:

A doctor friend of mine once chastised me for not wearing a helmet when on my bicycle. She shared a story to convince me how much protection a helmet provides. Her friend had an accident while riding, and if not for her helmet would have probably not survived the head impact against the curb. I asked how she was doing. The doctor said the impact against the curb broke her neck and she is now a quadriplegic...but she is alive. Hmm? But I still wear a helmet.

The best thing to do is come to a full stop, then look both ways, and pull out into them hitting your brakes at the last minute. They end up falling all over themselves as one of the front riders hits their brakes. It's entertaining.

A good friend of mine in TV refuses to wear a helmet (while on his motorbike) quoting similar reasons to that above. However, like you, I would not go out without my helmet on.

Nor would I ride on the sidewalk.

And coming to a complete halt at every stop sign? Moving on...

I do ride on a sidewalk if it is the only alternative to a busy narrow road.

you forgot to drag up the old gripe about dogs crapping on your lawn - always refreshing to see that one time and time again, too

I don't know the law in Florida but in my previous home state bicycles where illegal on side walks.

Why?

Bicycles on sidewalks...
 

A very good friend of mine, a nationally renowned pathologist, tried out a friend's new bike. He hit a curb, was thrown off the bike, hit his head and was killed.

He rode daily for many miles and always wore a helmet. Had a number of serious accidents but never was seriously injured.

That's why!

My husband had a bad "endo" many years ago. For those of you who don't ride, that means he flipped over and landed on his head. He was transported to the hospital by ambulance on a back board. Fortunately he only still has some neck pain. His helmet was cracked in 6 places. Please wear a helmet when you ride. If he had not be wearing a helment it might have been a whole different story. We might not be he enjoying life in The Villages.

I dont care what you say.. That is funny stuff :22yikes::a20:

Of course many do...
 

as entitled ones...who do as they wish with no regard for others. "Side-walk"...not "side-walk or ride".

Well shadow...
 

I bow to your knowledge and posting of the regulation. I will still maintain that it is unsafe for both pedestrian and bicyclist to be on the "sidewalk", not "sideride" and that since a multimodal lane is provided for such use should be used for bicycles. It will still tick me off, but will bite my tongue as I can't argue with a proven fact. Thank you.

And yet you seem to have missed this:"(5)(a) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing shall ride in the lane marked for bicycle use". The implication is if there is a specific lane for bikes it should be used.

I'll be sure to run all of the stop signs in your neighborhood as well. I hope the Sheriffs will accept my excuse that if its good enough for the cyclists, it's good enough for me.

The OP was about riding on sidewalks, but whenever a similar thread gets started the anti-cycling lobby piles in with the same old tired comments.

If you don't find that boring, then good for you.

But it would be far more interesting for posters to discuss the matter at hand - cycling on sidewalks - rather than feel compelled to repeat their anti-cycling rhetoric ad nauseam.

AMEN 1000% THE TRUTH
:bigbow:

And the number 1 reason I love old people: It makes me feel like I'm back in elementary school.

Wobbly riders, save both of us, use the side walk but people walking have right of way.

The novice biker should ride where they feel comfortable. Helmets are a personal choice. Since it does not effect me, be happy with what you decide

If the wobbly riders have enough skill to avoid them!It doesn't affect (yet) me because I've never encountered a rider on the sidewalk. But if I did, it would be easier for me to get out of their way than vice-versa.

Maybe all 30 bikers should have unclipped from the pedals and stopped at different times one after another, then you wouldn't have made it home in time for supper...

That dead horse has been beat to death long ago.

Now the subject is animal cruelty

that is the absolute poorest excuse for breaking the law. bike riders are required to obey all traffic laws. I let 1 go then I go, if i hit a bike rider it will be their fault. and by the way did you see that dog riding his bike on the sidewalk crapping as he rode?

And maybe they could have ridden the multi-modal paths!

You might as well hit 2 or 3. They have been warned.

Before you bitch about bicycles never stopping at stop signs ask yourself the last time you actually obeyed the 10 MPH speed limit in and around all the town squares.

Someone close this thread Please.... STOP enough is enough. :22yikes::censored:

We went from Cyclist on the sidewalk, to cyclist running stop signs,, to animal cruelty,, :icon_twisted:

Now we are up to hitting cyclist with your car, because cyclist are the only ones who break the law. :22yikes: I sure am glad no one else does anything wrong,, least off that car trying to drive thru the tunnel Friday that I had to explain to her that is not a short cut for cars... I am not moving off the tunnel approach so she could drive thru,, and she might get a hit on this forum.


Enough beating the cyclist up. Change topics for at least another month, then we can do it all over again after New Year.