I've felt that bicyclists seem to enjoy annoying motorists. Your post and subsequent comments are confirmation.

There’s the law and then there’s just being a [censored]

I don't think any bike riders wants to annoy motorist, I have never seen that, they just want to enjoy thier sport and do it in a safe environment

I used to give them a good cussing to myself when I saw them riding.

Now I fully understand why they use streets, it is so much safer riding on a street than trying to ride on sidewalk

If you going down major roads the poeple would run you over at the intersections if you used the sidewalks

Frisco is a different animal when it comes to living here, it is designed for families. In my old city I lived in you would be a fool trying to ride bikes on the streets.

Up here we have fairly light traffic and expansive and new roads, it a modern built city designed for bikes.

I have enjoyed my time living up here, it is really a neat city to live in.

Only if you failed to yield to oncoming traffic while entering the roadway.

If you going down a sidewalk there is a very good chance you will get hit by a car entering from a residential area onto a major street.

They can't and won't see you if you are riding on a sidewalk, it is a 100% safer riding on the street.

That is why you ride you bike on the street and not sidewalk

Do you also load and unload your gear in the boat ramp because it is legal to do so?

Gear?

I have a bassboat, all my gear is in the boat and stays in the boat.

All I have to at a ramp, is remove the motor toter and then back the boat up into the water.

I see both sides of this debate. First off, any cyclist over the age of 13 should not be riding on a sidewalk. Sidewalks are for pedestrians. By and large, roads in the US are intended for motor vehicles, not bicycles. That being said, cyclists do have a right to the road. When they are on the road, they need to obey the same rules that motorists have. That's where cyclists get a bad reputation (and deservedly so). They very rarely stop at stop signs. Even when it's my turn to advance from a stop sign, they will yell and throw their hands up like because they are wanting to cruise through without stopping. That's where I have a problem. Or on 2-lane streets, when a whole peloton is taking up the both lanes impeding vehicles behind them from passing. There are plenty of groups that are seemingly looking for confrontation.

And then there are other groups that ride single file and generally stay out of the way of others. Or they'll go early weekend mornings on less travelled roads instead of the middle of the day in on busy roads. That's how it should be and kudos to those riders.

We’ll be careful who’s buttons you push Ranger. Bicycle vs. automobile is a mighty dangerous game of chicken.

I may be wrong, but I believe traffic laws apply to bikes when biking on the road. If so your cheeky "none" is wrong.

That is correct. I never gave them much static unless they were being unreasonable. They are at quite a disadvantage in an accident. That being said though, there’s always that one prick. His bicycle went to the auto pound on a wrecker and he got to go to jail in bicycle shorts. A few days later he went to my office and apologized for his behavior.

I had one run a stop light on hwy 26(45mph speed limit). He almost went splat, as he acted like the hwy should of yielded to him.

He needed a good tazing

He was looking for a fight so I gave him one. If it had played out later in my career, I wouldn’t have let myself get goaded into it.

The cars are on the sidewalks? I don't think so, a bike rider leaves the sidewalk and enters the road way.

There are laws, and there are laws of physics.
25 pound bike, 190 pound rider vs 6000 pound Super Duty, or maybe a simple 3000 pound Civic, figure it out.
There is dead right and there is right but dead.
This reminds me of every motorcyclist that I have known, every one of them, no exceptions. It is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when.

Try to read and comprehend.

If you go down any major road in my area, if you look at the stop sign and the stop line it is way behind the sidewalk on all the residential streets. Thus making your line of vision be on the street. Sidewalks are for walking thus is the reason they are called sidewalks.

If you tried to ride on sidewalk it would be very very unsafe plus cars tend to block the right of way if one tried to ride on the sidewalk.

Bike move at a fast rate, that is the way they are designed, the faster you go the more upright they stay, thus making the street the safest most for bikers, and keeping them in the line of vision of a motorist.

Riding a bike on sidewalk is not safe, thankfully in Frisco they have all sidewalks have cut out at the curbs at all streets, I know older cities still have curbs around each intersections.

Thus the reason you alway ride with the flow of traffic and stay on the street and use the right lane. See you just proved my point why bikes are made for the street.

Not all cities have streets designed for bike riders, but more modern cities like Frisco is built bike friendly.

Bike follow under the Texas Transportation Code

Sec. 551.103. OPERATION ON ROADWAY. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person operating a bicycle on a roadway who is moving slower than the other traffic on the roadway shall ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway, unless:

(1) the person is passing another vehicle moving in the same direction;

(2) the person is preparing to turn left at an intersection or onto a private road or driveway;

(3) a condition on or of the roadway, including a fixed or moving object, parked or moving vehicle, pedestrian, animal, or surface hazard prevents the person from safely riding next to the right curb or edge of the roadway; or

(4) the person is operating a bicycle in an outside lane that is:

(A) less than 14 feet in width and does not have a designated bicycle lane adjacent to that lane; or

(B) too narrow for a bicycle and a motor vehicle to safely travel side by side.

(b) A person operating a bicycle on a one-way roadway with two or more marked traffic lanes may ride as near as practicable to the left curb or edge of the roadway.

(c) Persons operating bicycles on a roadway may ride two abreast. Persons riding two abreast on a laned roadway shall ride in a single lane. Persons riding two abreast may not impede the normal and reasonable flow of traffic on the roadway. Persons may not ride more than two abreast unless they are riding on a part of a roadway set aside for the exclusive operation of bicycles.

Frisco is proud to be a Bicycle Friendly Community with The League of American Bicyclists! The City of Frisco's dedicated bike-ways include bike lanes, designated routes, multi-use paths and off-road soft surface biking trails.

Frisco Bike Friendly

I appreciate you passion for bike riding and I hope you continue to do so safely. But I have seen a lot of white bikes in my travels and no doubt they could quote the law to. If things go wrong, it isn't good.
Be safe sir

Yeah that Superduty would crumple...

Fond memories of driving in the Malibu, Santa Monica area when I lived there in 1981. Probably gave a few bicyclist hemorrhoid's
Way back then those arrogant A-Holes thought they owned the road, wrong buffalo breath!

You got to live life, you can't live life scared. I have done it my way my whole life and enjoy taking risk in life, as they say no risk no rewards.

I find bike riding in my area very safe, plus they have many hike and bike trails as well you can ride to and explore all over the place.

Common sense is lacking these days!