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As to WHY this is happening now... Because it's the same thing that was happening then... But I'm sure you'll tell us your thoughts on the subject... |
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They 'can' also run you down. We love to ride our bikes but NEVER ride on an MMP. By the way, bikers, when your blood is all over an MMP, does that mean you "own the path"? |
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Thank you to Dave.
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There are some that only care about themselves. Many do give plenty of space to walkers and bikers.
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As a bike rider I try to be unusually patient with bikers on the MMP’s. Today was a real test of my patients. I drove my cart from our home north of 466 to Belle Glade, a cart ride that takes 35 minutes on a hot summer day with little traffic on the MMP. Today it took almost an hour and 5 minutes. Granted, it was a beautiful day during busy season, however, I have never encountered sooooooo many bike riders. It seemed like I was stuck behind a bike for almost the entire ride. Every time I was able to safely pass a bike I almost immediately came up on another. I wish I counted how many I had to pass, my best guess would be close to 20. It really does test ones patients, especially when you are the last of several carts stuck behind a rider. Next time someone asks how long it takes to get to Belle Glade via golf cart, I will have to say between 35 and 65 minutes, depending on bike traffic.
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A lot of golfers are just plain AHOLES...Combine this with a lot of them being from NY/NJ and you get AHOLE squared.
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I have an e-bike and don't know of any that go 25 mph, 20 is the max.
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So you are one of those grouchy old men who have no patients for someone enjoying life. Get up earlier and leave your home sooner so you are not frustrated when you come upon a bike rider. Look on the bright side, you live in a community where people enjoy exercise outside and that is why they are here! They are doing it right down in the southern villages with the separate bike and walking trails and the carts are in the street where they belong. |
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So you are one of those grouchy old men who have no patients for someone enjoying life. Get up earlier and leave your home sooner so you are not frustrated when you come upon a bike rider. Look on the bright side, you live in a community where people enjoy exercise outside and that is why they are here! They are doing it right down in the southern villages with the separate bike and walking trails and the carts are in the street where they belong. |
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Me? I rarely, if ever walk on the MMPs, so I can't comment on personal experience. But when driving my golf cart, I've yet to have a problem with either bikers or pedestrians... |
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Yep, just like golf cart speed limited. |
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I did not say they were, but the function the same way. I can have opinion just like you with you big illegal horn. |
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I don't "lose my proverbial sh*t" every time it happens... I saw a Prius, come out of the MMP onto Pinellas a few months ago. How the hell she got ON the MMP escapes me! My buddy and I (coming home from golf) gave a collective "WTF?" and then started laughing at the absurdity of it all... I simple shake my head, laugh at the idiots, and get on with my life... |
The cart people....with the cyclops headlight that blinds everyone.. or god forbid if you get behind the large man who can barely fit behind the wheel, knee showing out the side -- smoking a cigar to boot and the 1976 golf cart which hasn't had a tune up since the carter admin. which smells like raw fuel to high heaven. The lady folks need to skip the bakery isle too - wow how did they manage to eat themselves into a better parking space then the rest of us?? Get behind that and let me know how it goes.
The bicycle guys ... over 65 in tight spandex with multiple supporting names platered on them like they really are in the olympics ..big ole tummy and ortho hose and they spit at every turn from drinking colt45 from a can -- yeah that's no picnic being behind them either. :duck: Lighten up.. we won't be here forever! |
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Oh, and "fat shaming" never looks good on anyone... |
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My wife and I both mountain bike. We avoid the spandex, even though we're both very fit. Nothing wrong with it on fit people, but I crack up as well when I see guys with beer guts squeezed into those outfits. Do they really think they look good? Oh well, to each their own I guess. |
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I now ride the middle of the path on my side for my safety and carts coming from the other direction. Carts are less likely to attempt to "sqweeze by me if I own the path. It would be nice if we all embraced the Villages as a bicycle friendly community. And thankfully many folks do. Most folks are retired and if they are in a real hurry, they could drive a car and avoid being self righteous on the MMPs . |
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Those are off road lights and by Florida law are supposed to covered up when on roads and only to be used Off road. There are no off roads in villages and little law enforcement IMO. |
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...And you have the mindless monkey-children who only know how to operate their accelerator pedal as an on/off switch :)
I now see a lot of bicycles out at 4:00AM because they have the roads/paths to themselves. |
Bicycles and Walkers
First of all bicycles and walkers should not be on a golf cart path that is why they are Called golf cart paths Bicycles and walkers have their own paths Strictly for walkers and bicycles, Bicycle and walk on 75 or the FL Turnpike, So many bicycles are flying on the golf cart paths thinking they are invincible Someone is going to get hit one day the way they fly around the tunnels and then they cry if a golf cart gets to close to them it is ridiculous, the bicycle rider is supposed to obey all the rules of the road when riding especially on a road the best advice for you is to stay off the golf cart paths and go to a park Stay off the roads.
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