If you've ever driven the Garden State Parkway you know its nearly flat. Prior car was a 2018 Ford Fusion and it actually exceeded the highway milage. Could get 36 mpg running to Hatteras and back.
Insert Ford Fusion NASCAR drafting joke here. I've only ever ridden along on that road. And pissed on the side of it eleventy times but hey, kid bladder + kid planning = pH watering the shoulder.
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They're removing a traffic lane where Atlantic dead runs into A1A and the 'downtown' Atlantic/Neptune Beach thing. Putting a cement-divided bike lane in.
For what fucking purpose? Who the f--k wants to ride a bike down Atlantic? Cars everywhere, strip malls everywhere, and LOVELY tree-lined side streets in quiet neighborhood fucking galore a block to the North, and stretching for miles North and South. Nobody walks on the sidewalks on Atlantic now, nevermind when it's eleventy million degrees out. Traffic already backs up there, badly. Now there's one less lane?
This reminds me of when they put cement islands in alongside the road for who knows why. Now when the bus stops there, it directly blocks traffic instead of being out of the fucking way, and there's fewer parallel spots. But hey, there's a feature that you can't really skateboard that we have to pay for mulch and a sprinkler system or whatever plus decreased efficiency. Yay.
This is starting to really **** me off. There are probably some places around here where a dedicated bike lane would be great at least in theory. In practice, every dumb fucking broad and self-important fucking douchebag dude ABSOLUTELY HAS TO RIDE ABREAST AT ALL FUCKING TIMES and if you try to make any kind of time around these people on your bike, you invariably almost get into a wreck because they have nothing better to do than day drink and ride their beach cruiser slower than snails ooze uphill in this meandering fucking wobble pattern.
I finally got my trail bike to Hanna Park. Had a complete blast and enjoyed the sh!t out of it. Took a shitty line towards a bridge and aborted. A guy was gaining on me, called out, and I quickly shuffled off the line as he crested the little bump leading to the bridge and rolled over. He sounded shocked, completely shocked, that someone just GTFO the way. Said thanks like I'd given his labradoodle lifesaving CPR.
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Maybe PRCD the tradcon clown could be an ally. I support women's suffrage and directly electing senators, but maybe a hereditary Constitutional Monarchy is the way, provided everywhere I go there's rando guard changings and dudes in bearskin shouting at people and ceremoniously tossing them out of the way while shouting at them to fucking beat it.
I already live in a pod and spare me the exoskeletony bits between the teeth and I'll eat the bugs willingly. But we're driving for surf when it sucks here and I'm not going 2mph on some goddamn grannybike with 20 pounds of fenders and baskets and a fucking homeless guy who needs a ride on the pegs.
"Look at me. I'm going slow as f--k down 1st street. I have a one speed bike with a goddamn granny seat. WEEE. Oh look, some skateboarders, e-bikers, stunt bikers, harley people, and cars. Let's see how many of them we can get into their way and blockade in the course of denominating least commonly. WEEEE"
I don't think much of having to drive my car behind these retards in Tundras and F150s going slow as sh!t in the passing lane. Five minutes around other cyclists, and the grilles aren't high/hard enough. Make 'em 8000 pounds with spiked kangaroo bars mandatory OEM/Factory, and have self-enclosed murder hornet colonies behind thin glass that breaks upon impact with idiot pedestrian/cyclists. Then go kook plough the roads so I can fredsled without almost having to lay 'er down because Jizzbrain McSundress and her basic bitch squad are going eightwide downa straight.