This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.

  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    142·
    3 days ago

    Yea but the standard is that slower traffic keeps right, we don’t have to block the entire roadway left to right

    The only case where bikes should be the entire road is if its an official event with road closures to accomodate

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      3 days ago

      Yes, exactly.

      imagine the rage against cars if there was a picture of cars doing a rolling blockade like this. People would be apoplectic

      If its wrong for cars to do it, its wrong for anyone else to do it too. And if you don’t think thats true, then you’re a hypocrite (general you, not accosting you, Baguette)

      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
        72·
        3 days ago

        Imagine the rage against cars if there was a picture of cars doing a rolling blockade like this.

        That’s just regular car traffic. And nobody is upset about that.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          3 days ago

          IN my many many decades I’ve never seen anything but police match speed and drive abreast to become a rolling barricade…and that was only to bring traffic to a halt due to an accident up a head.

          • alcoholicorn@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            I used to do that during stop and go traffic, after I saw a couple semis doing it. If you can gauge the average speed of traffic and smooth out the irregularities, everyone gets there at the same time, but we all have a much more relaxed drive.

            Now I ride a motorcycle so I can simply go around/between traffic.

          • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
            22·
            3 days ago

            This isn’t a rolling barricade it’s just a critical mass of cyclists. When there’s enough car traffic to bring travel to a crawl we don’t call it a rolling barricade we just call it throughput capacity.

          • UnequalExchange@lemmy.worldEnglish
            22·
            3 days ago

            …but cars do that already…wot?

            Have you never been stuck in a traffic jam? …What are you talking about?

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      That is strictly an interstate highway standard. This is a local stroad in Florida. Keep right unless passing does not apply here.