{"id":363595,"date":"2025-12-23T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T10:45:08","slug":"this-is-why-drivers-hate-us-fuming-mini-driver-goes-off-road-and-flies-up-central-reservation-to-overtake-huge-group-of-cyclists-as-entitled-riders-accus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363595\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is why drivers hate us\u201d: Fuming Mini driver goes off-road and flies up central reservation to overtake huge group of cyclists \u2013 as \u201centitled\u201d riders accused of \u201cblocking whole road\u201d + more on the live blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you thought the classic Daily Mail response to a clip of two cyclists riding side-by-side on the road can verge on the apoplectic, wait until they see this one.<\/p>\n

Because a recent group ride in Miami has caused quite the stir \u2013 after a fuming Mini driver resorted to flying along the grass central reservation to overtake the huge bunch of cyclists.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not all. A clip of the bonkers overtake has sparked a massive backlash on social media, with hundreds of motorists (and a few cyclists too) flocking to the comments to accuse the group ride of \u201cblocking the whole road\u201d and creating an \u201cunsafe situation\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Mini<\/p>\n

First, some context. If, like me, you\u2019re not familiar with South Florida\u2019s weekend cycling scene, the Don Pan is a popular social ride based in Key Biscayne, near Miami. Taking place on Sunday, the ride attracts hundreds of cyclists, is largely flat, and averages over 30mph, normally featuring an impromptu, unofficial race at the end to crown a \u2018winner\u2019.<\/p>\n

To get a feel of what it\u2019s all about, one regular participant published a video from last Sunday\u2019s ride on YouTube, complete with the caption: \u2018We stopped for a red light \u2013 first time ever\u2019:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

So, you get the picture. Did I say the Daily Mail would be all over this already?<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s another clip from the following week\u2019s ride that has courted the most online controversy. On Sunday, Florida bike shop Revolt posted this clip of a Mini driver taking an unusual, off-road approach to overtaking the Don Pan peloton:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the highlights from Don Pan this morning,\u201d Revolt said. \u201c4×4 no patience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comments, however, were more concerned with the size of the bunch than the motorist\u2019s encounter with the central reservation.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhat do you mean \u2018no patience\u2019? You guys were blocking the WHOLE ROAD!\u201d one Instagram user replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe don\u2019t take over the whole fucking road??? Like I bike to work daily and this shit is ridiculous,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n

\"Mini<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a cyclist, this kind of pisses me off… why the whole three lanes? Please, someone, explain,\u201d one user asked, prompting the reply: \u201cEntitlement\u201d.<\/p>\n

And it seems like a lot of the replies stemmed from mortified cyclists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why drivers hate us,\u201d wrote Cait, while another user said: \u201cI\u2019m a cyclist and I can say I hate these cyclists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis makes me angry!!!!\u201d wrote punctuation enthusiast Yeti. \u201cWho do these guys think they are????? They are taking up both lanes!!! They should all be ticketed!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mini<\/p>\n

And Edwin added: \u201cI\u2019m a professional athlete, but we need to respect other people, occupy only one lane and not two as if other people\u2019s rights didn\u2019t exist. The authorities must do something to stop this from happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Europe, such peloton on the road would not be allowed. Too dangerous for everyone,\u201d noted another viewer. \u201cPolice would intervene. As cyclists, we wish to be respected, it starts with respecting other road users.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStay in one lane, and this won\u2019t happen. It creates an unsafe situation for everyone,\u201d said Luis.<\/p>\n

However, not everyone was up in arms about the lack of two-abreasting going on at the Don Pan.<\/p>\n

\"Mini<\/p>\n

\u201cI genuinely don\u2019t understand the resentment,\u201d said Goldstucker.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon Pan is a ride where cyclists are moving at roughly 30 mph. Expecting 70 riders at that speed to squeeze onto a bike path\u2014shared with people cruising along at half that pace\u2014is, of course, completely logical.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a Sunday ride that might delay traffic by five minutes, if that. A true crisis. Civilization barely survives.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yes, let\u2019s direct our outrage at cyclists for briefly existing on the road we all supposedly share. Perspective, apparently, is optional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought the classic Daily Mail response to a clip of two cyclists riding side-by-side on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-363595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}