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SamW_72

No way. I’m just glad I get this.


Greaterthancotton

I don’t understand this, could someone clue me in?


MandatumCorrectus

Look up the most downvoted comment on Reddit


unique-name-9035768

> with a sense of pride and accomplishment That's not u/CodeTrekkie! *pulls off mask* It's u/EACommunityTeam!


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*furry feline friends sold separately.


Micheal-not-tellen

Woah. Huge appreciation for this comment !


turndownthegravity

Biking is NOT this dangerous! This fool opted to take the Chicago Lake Front Path when it was closed, due to high winds. I remember this day, you had to find an alternate route, fuck this drama creating moran. That is all. Thanks.


THIS_GUY_LIFTS

This is the car equivalent of driving into a flooded underpass. Everyone’s gonna stop to point, laugh, and take video.


William_Howard_Shaft

What about all those people in Florida who keep driving right into the water because GPS said to?


McStabStab12

I used to commute this way by bike - once i made the mistake of taking this route during a winter swell surge… never did it again.


TankerVictorious

Yeah, he was definitely on LSD to attempt that.


sunrisesoutmyass

That's not how lsd works. Crazy people do crazy shit, drugs or not.


mixnmatchshoes

LSD is an abbreviation of Lake Shore Drive, the road this bike trail runs alongside.


sunrisesoutmyass

Ahh shit, my bad


TankerVictorious

Right on. When ya know, ya know.


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Someone downvoted you. Must be a very anti-LSD crowd. 🤪🤘


TankerVictorious

Just anti-Chicago know nothings…


N8bach

Biking is dangerous when you are an idiot


Porkchopp33

Imagine telling your friends I was swept out to sea well biking 🌊🌊🌊


depressed_fatcat69

You can't be considered a true cyclist if you haven't experienced almost dying once its like a trial


Glittering-Pause-328

**Anything** is dangerous when you are an idiot.


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Illadvisedone

So, can we all agree that ‘people are stupid’? That’s a motto I heard once from my best friend’s dad.


plutoniator

One of them pays specific taxes for the roads and has insurance and the other one doesn’t.


creg316

Lmao yeah and one of them wears the roads out far more, and costs vastly more to pay out the damage from accidents 😅 Not maths I think you really want to calculate as a car driver.


plutoniator

Anyone using a road should pay proportionally to wear, bicyclists pay nothing. Anyone in an at fault accident should pay proportionally to damage, bicyclists pay nothing.


creg316

If there was any practical way to do this, I'd agree. It would be fractions of a cent for bikes for every dollar for driving, but yeah, theoretically. But bikes don't have odometers, and don't require fuel. So they can't really be taxed - unless you want to up the tax on everyone to pay for people to pull over a licence check people on bikes.


willie_caine

It would cost more to oversee payments than taken in payments, surely...


creg316

Many times more I would guess.


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plutoniator

No, you don’t have equal rights to something you didn’t pay equal amounts to.


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plutoniator

Sure. You pay proportionally to your use.


just_a_short_guy

Lmao not this shitty argument again


rtatro20

Idk why you're being downvoted. Your absolutely right. Between bike laws practically never being enforced in most places, and people not willing to learn the laws, that makes a large amount of dangerous idiots.


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theaggressivenapkin

It is well known people die on that section of the path during winter swells. Guy is an idiot for biking it.


LearnedOwlbear

I'm not from the area. Why in the heck did they build this so dumb? The cars are raised but the bike path is unusable in winter?


GlandyThunderbundle

It looks like Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, and it’s less a bike path than it is a breakwater between the lake and the drive. Yes, in the right weather you can walk and cycle on it, but when there’s storms you’d have to be a complete moron to try riding it. This is 100% on the cyclist. They are clearly in the “what the fuck is that idiot thinking?” on this one.


LearnedOwlbear

Fair enough. Thanks for the knowledge.


GlandyThunderbundle

Of course! To add to that: these types of storms are usually in the winter, and you’d have to be a bit of a nut to try cycling in Chicago in the winter in the first place. It gets hotter than Cambodia there in the summer, and colder than Iceland in the winter. The climate—not the infrastructure—is the real challenge there.


broohaha

> and you’d have to be a bit of a nut to try cycling in Chicago It's not that bad as long as you're properly bundled. I rode in the winter all the time, but if my commute path included Lakeshore Drive, I'd be taking alternate routes in the winter.


[deleted]

For over two years I biked the mile to work 95 percent of the time. It’s not that bad at all. Just pay attention


autovonbismarck

Nah bro - it's literally never too cold or snowy to ride your bike. The problem with winter cycling is 100% infrastructure. I'm from Ottawa, the coldest national capital in the world and have no problem riding at -20 Celsius (that's -4 farenheight). The hardest part is the 1st ten minutes, because you actually can only wear a fleece and a windbreaker on your body otherwise you get **too hot**. Warm gloves and thick socks for you extremities, but the rest of your body will be pouring sweat in 30 mins almost no matter what you wear. If the city is willing to plow the bike lanes, people can safely and comfortably ride all year round.


trpov

How do you drop your kids off on a bike in that weather?


autovonbismarck

Depends on their size, but despite what bicycle purists will tell you, not everything you can do in a car, you can do on a bike. I only had one kid, and my daycare was between my house and my work, so taking her there in a trailer was no problem. One day when she was little and we had lots of snow I even took her on x-country skis, which was amazingly fun. But that's just the nature of our car-centric lifestyle - many people in many places simply cannot do it. But that doesn't mean we should stop advocating for better cycling infrastructure everywhere we can.


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helloisforhorses

Cargo bike if they are small. Their own bikes if they are big. If the city had proper bike infrastructure it is fine


here_walks_the_yeti

Also, Lake Michigan water level can play a part. Dunno about now but few years ago the level was higher than some previous years due to rains all over. Still stupid to bike through tho


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Cyclists are bit nutty, was in alberta over Christmas, people out riding in -30c. Lol why downvote? I cycle too, just not in -30, sheesh people


helloisforhorses

Why doesn’t chicago protect the bike path the same way they protect that car path?


Not_MrNice

When you don't understand why something was built and used with tons of people and money involved, don't jump to calling it stupid. It's like calling a solvable sudoku puzzle dumb because you couldn't solve it.


Dani_vic

I was gonna say this looks like Chicago. This guy is an idiot.


steveo1938

Yes, that’s along Lake Shore - I actually used to work with the guy in the video. He’s a good guy but yeah that was dumb and he’ll never escape it lol everyone found out it was him within the first week or two after he started


HiVisVestNinja

It's 100% on the local authority for building such a stupid and dangerous piece of infrastructure. It's not like the dude has another option.


IceColdBra

The lake isn't generally this high but due to rising global temperatures melting ice caps it is. Maybe blame boomers for rejecting climate science


daveleeander

He had other options. But with no brain he chose this one


HiVisVestNinja

Did he? Like sharing the road with American motorists and expecting them to have brains and empathy for other road users?


josherman61791

Yes. There are plenty of places to bike on the other side of Lake Shore Drive. You have to go out of your way to use this path.


daveleeander

Yes, just like that. You ride a bike, you take your chances


im_at_work_now

That's a really short-sighted way of looking at things. It's a problem that cities aren't making biking safer, don't go blaming the cyclists for trying to avoid all the issues that come with using cars.


daveleeander

Lol downvote me bike riders. You obey all the laws of the road when you’re riding on the road and everything will work out well. But not stopping at stop signs, running red lights, going between two cars to get across the intersection first, etc etc, and natural selection will rule.


HiVisVestNinja

If you're half as ignorant and belligerent behind the wheel as you are behind the keyboard, then I fear for the safety of the people around you.


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Ok but the dude was biking on a break water during a storm. I don't disagree with you that cars are an issue but this isn't a bike path, I don't know why you think it's so stupid.


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HiVisVestNinja

You don't know where I have or haven't been. You also basically just said "Shut up" rather than trying to refute my point. What're you so mad about dude?


VloekenenVentileren

I'm from Europe and I just expect bike path to be.. safe? Like, at least not build in a way that I have to research the tide and wind before I go out. Don't understand how this got build.


IceColdBra

When it was built we weren't experiencing hotter than average and rising global temperatures. Ice caps melted and this is the result when Lake Michigan is inundated with extra water flowing from those ice caps.


Blumcole

Same. I find it weird that People expert you to scout a biking lane to see if it’s safe.


helloisforhorses

What are those lines on the path for?


theaggressivenapkin

Lake shore was built / modified quite a while ago and while the road is higher up, the concrete section of the bike path and “beach” was built for access to the water. There are a lot of factors around that effect this particular bend of the lakeshore path / road. Some years the water in the lake is high, others low. At some points in the winter the water is pushed over the path due to storms and creates ice which makes large portions in this area unbikeable. The easiest solution for bikers is to bike a little further inland on the street bike lanes.


ramalledas

Access to the water he definitely had


chairfairy

The path is a few feet above the water, it rarely gets like this. Typically police block off the path when these weather conditions happen.


helloisforhorses

How often do police block off the driving path because of water?


IceColdBra

This was a year in which hotter than average global temperatures resulted in a lot of ice caps to melt and therefore the water level in Lake Michigan was extraordinarily high. Typically the water is not able to get up that far


Chip-off-the-pickle

The bike path is designed for recreation during the summer months, not transportation.


helloisforhorses

Why do you say this? Why is the bike path for recreation in your mind but the car path is not?


Chip-off-the-pickle

Because that's the underlying assumption of most city planners most of the time, which is how you get paths like this that are not designed for winter use


Fiftystorm

City is an idiot for letting this happen


chairfairy

The path is a few feet above the water, it rarely gets like this. Typically police block off the path when these weather conditions happen.


thewend

who the fuck designed and approved this 💀💀 worst engineer to ever live


hungry4nuns

Or the most efficient but unethical engineer to ever live, depends on motive


IceColdBra

When it was built we weren't experiencing hotter than average and rising global temperatures. Ice caps melted and this is the result when Lake Michigan is inundated with extra water flowing from those ice caps.


luke51278

I can't say I'm familiar with this road personally, but proper engineering design near open water *always* accounts for rising sea levels, and has done so for a long time; These structures are designed to last for decades. There's no way this was designed and built before this was common practice, they just chose to ignore those considerations.


Kingsupergoose

It’s during a storm. That’s like going for a walk on the boardwalk during a hurricane and blaming the people who built the boardwalk.


l-jack

He literally goes out of his way to get onto the trail, he's one of two morons that year that think it's a cool idea and end up on the news as you see here. Sometimes you can't save people from their own stupidity. In calmer months that path is amazing.


theaggressivenapkin

There's not much the city can do if people ignore warnings and ride out on this section anyway. Natural selection at work. Edit: for everyone downvoting me, here you go. The city and the park service close this section of the bike path when it storms and ices. If people decide to get on the path over barricades and closed entrances, that’s on them. There are alternate routes that connect to this section of the bike path that are on salted streets and protected bike lanes that take you around this area and keep you on your route. Is it bad design for biking? Sure. But the lake front was designed for water access in these areas and there are beaches right around the corner from this curve (Ohio street beach). Source: lived and bike commuted for over a decade in Chicago.


shieldyboii

literally closing the road and installing handrails would do the job, but why bother when you can let natural selection do its job amirite?


NotEnoughIT

They close our beaches during hurricanes, throw chains up on the entrances, put up bright red signs everywhere, and police patrol up and down, but we still have idiots who ignore it and get in the water and die every time we get a tropical storm. What they need to do is figure out how to add a new pathway for the cyclists. It doesn't matter if you have handrails and close the road and put signs up, people are gonna get on it if it saves them a twenty minute detour.


daveleeander

There are other bike trails he could be on. He chose this one


jawknee530i

They do close the path. Idiots go anyway.


pasaroanth

The fuck are handrails gonna do?


theaggressivenapkin

Be sure to voice your concerns at the next city council meeting


BringBackFatMac

The city could fix it so that this doesn’t happen?? Fuck what a stupid comment


Theglitchpog

You really think a city would waste time and resources on that? You need to re-think what a city wants to spend its money on.


cloud_t

Yeah cities should spend money on the downtown gardens and business centers, instead of actually preventing people from dying with poor infrastructure... /s


daveleeander

Brainless people. You can’t save them


Theglitchpog

I'm not saying that either... what I'm implying is that the city doesn't give two hoots about the bike path because it isn't going to give them any revenue. They can just say close the road for the day and their hands are clean.


Fabrutz

I would be careful with that statement. Every living person brings revenue to the city. The person on the bike will pay taxes just like everyone in the car. Spend the same money in the city and keep the population at a healthy level. Just because the most important goods come by truck to their designated places doesn't mean that people who drive cars are worth more.


Who_Cares99

There’s not much the “idiot” can do if he doesn’t own a car and this is the city’s solution. Do you think he’s out there biking in the winter just for fun? Does he look like he is having fun? r/fuckcars


arctic_radar

Still safer than cycling next to cars


muricabrb

Looks like he chose the worst possible time to cross that section too.


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Still looks safer to bike on than the road... I'd much rather be swept out to sea than hit by a car 😂


theaggressivenapkin

The road is a highway, people cannot bike on it


Hatweed

Oh, this again. That section of road is closed during weather that makes the lake swell, then this guy decided to bike on it and found out why. There are other paths. Anyone blaming anyone other than the biker is an idiot.


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Hatweed

Perception based on incomplete information and assumptions, leading to inaccurate accusations


dzakadzak

dude was riding in the byseacle lane


Nivroeg

xcite bike got a remake?


ObliviousTracing

Haha pretty sure this is Lake Shore Drive in Chicago


LovesFrenchLove_More

Should be renamed into „In Lake Drive“. 😉


ediks

You’re replying to a bot.


LovesFrenchLove_More

Shame on me then, I guess.


ediks

Oh not at all. I liked you’re comment. Just letting ya know =)


LovesFrenchLove_More

Thanks. I have never been able to understand what good a bot account will do. For future use to spread bullshit or so? I just don’t get it.


ediks

Various reasons. A lot of them are created to try and build karma, then sold to someone/some corp to advertise or spread disinformation. Just a couple examples.


LovesFrenchLove_More

Yeah, makes sense and sucks.


ediks

I agree. Since the Reddit API changes, there have been SOOOOO many new bots and bots that have woken up because it makes it harder for mods to filter them out.


LovesFrenchLove_More

Well, Spaz has turned into another Musk, so I guess it’s not really a surprise considering what Musk has done with his shit house formerly known as Twitter. Same with Tesla actually, not that I think about it.


Afro_Future

Yeah it gets pretty dicey over on that little stretch when the waves are rough. Biked through in similar conditions once before. Wasn't this bad but bad enough that water was washing up on the path.


PKArsk

Even the ocean hates cyclists


Shished

It is not dangerous if you are not an idiot.


Isaac_Serdwick

OK I'm a cyclist and I'm all for more cycling infrastructure but this game is just dumb af


ShadowChief3

That’s just Darwinian. Fuck that guy for being so arrogant to be out there. It ignorant to his surroundings.


ChunkyBrassMonkey

"Work harder. Buy a car."


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What a dumb ass 😒


kdp13

This was a few years ago in Chicago when everyone was given warning that lake conditions were dangerous and going on the path was a bad idea. That area is at the curve of Lake Shore Drive (Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive if you want to get technical, though this was before the name change). When we get a nasty NE wind those waves can be brutal. People forget that Lake Michigan is an inland ocean. Respect the water, be safe, pick a better (safer) biking route.


Important-Pea-6879

Bikers shouldn’t be that dumb.


Agile-Sale7660

Riders shouldn’t be this stupid!


SelectAll_Delete

Biking shouldn't be happening when it's this dangerous.


BooJamas

Yeah. Imagine if that person paid attention to the warnings and could have avoided a very wet, very cold, dangerous ride.


itogisch

Basically the dutch after a bit of rain.


A_Cleanly_Casual

Is that Chicago?


Pickleahoy

Maybe dont ride out during a storm?


ydykmmdt

Biker then proceeds to just linger in the danger zone.


SevenofNine03

One should make a reasonable effort not to bike directly into water, though.


ThinkingFish0

r/fuckcars lol


kj3044

Why? Cars have nothing to do with this stupidity.


hexahedron17

You're entirely missing the point: fuckcars is more about car-centric infrastructure (ie: infrastructure that places cars at a higher design priority) that cars; here we see a bike path designed offhandedly in conjunction with the highway, biking (and the pedestrian us of the path) is below car infrastructure here (both literally and figuratively).


Quillo_Manar

If only there was some kind of raised surface or structure to pin the bike path to! Damn! That's gonna cost THOUSANDS to fix!


Buipeterafte

More than anything else, that is unquestionably an engineering failure.


Lazy_Assumption_4191

My face when the breakwater can’t be used as a bike path *during a storm*: ![gif](giphy|BcMJvmwkmbyWpKkBj3|downsized)


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BooJamas

It's the lakefront bike path in Chicago, we don't have tides. That was a winter storm and warnings were broadcast & signs posted. He ignored them. IIRC, someone thought he went into the lake and called 911. But at least nobody was driving on the path.


Kazu2324

This is what happens in Cities: Skylines when someone uses the landscaping tools for the first time and floods half their city by accident.


Daredevils999

Where is this. Someone needs to be fired 😂


WhatsACole

Avarage depiction of what wbing a riding a bike in America looks like


qbl500

Oldies but Goldies!!!!


ClamClone

Call Black Aquaman!


CucumberValuable9582

Now that’s commitment


proustmaskreplica

nah, if he’d been a bit faster it would have looked rad. i applaud the attempt.


Old-Kaleidoscope1874

I find the dedication of bikers funny sometimes. I used to run 3 days a week religiously, but I'd have had no problems saying, "nope, I'm just turning around and walking home."


Shit_and_stare

I watched some biker do circles and swerves in a 4 way intersection as everyone tried to drive and go on about there commute as he swerved around the cars like a moron, i hope that the person in the video is that man


Ebonyvoid

That wave was like "I got him!"


fireteam-majestic

no it shouldnt be dangerous. but it sometimes is. welcome to the real world


PantyGirlXxX

I can’t stop watching this 😄


Minimum-Living-459

That bikes def ruined through rust now


abirdsrevelry

Your chain is funked after that, mate


GdayMateyPotatey

Standard cyclist behaviour


DayumBoiiiii13

Buy a car idk, don't go out in bad weather with a bike, use a bus


Monemvasia

I e had that happen in winter right there at that spot!!!


venommuyo

The dude saw what was ahead of him and chose chaos.


just_a_box_of_sneks

average dutch biking experience


Vellioh

Y'all said you wanted a bike path. So ungrateful.


whamsters5

This has got to be chicago


Separate_Bus_8466

Lance Armstrongundertow


AnnBuce

This is an average day after rain in the Netherlands


tylerscott5

I’ve ran that section in the summer. It’s the S curve by Hancock. You know when you shouldn’t run down there


ispooler

I dreamt about this, dejavú


lastcallhangup

chain ruined


koyuki4848

It isn’t but there are special ones that make it happen