Montreal, home of La Bicyculte, is moving to allow cyclists to run stop signs.

The reasoning: What the hell, they do it anyway, so why bother?

Of all the cockamamie ideas ...

Please do not tell Toronto’s bicycult cell or its allies at City Hall of Montreal’s scheme, or they’ll be over it like flies on a sweaty cyclist.

Montreal has asked provincial lawmakers to permit les cyclistes to perform an “Idaho stop,” as opposed to a full stop. The request was filed this week to a road safety commission.

The Idaho stop is not really a stop at all. If no one else is approaching, you just pedal right past the stop sign, as if it says “yield.”

This is legal in Idaho, hence the name. It’s understandable in that scenic western state, since a stationary cyclist is among a grizzly bear’s favourite meals.

But in the meadows and foothills of Montreal and Toronto?!

The bicycult/la bicyculte has long lobbied for the Idaho stop. For them it is a subtle way of flashing us their middle finger.

But it’s the thin edge of a two-wheeled wedge.

As ever driver and pedestrian knows, there are few laws many cyclists do obey.

What’s to prevent Toronto’s bicycult — and city council’s babbling bicycloonies, such as Mike Layton and Joe Cressy — from pushing to allow cyclists free rein on sidewalks. Or to pedal the wrong way on a one-way street. Or to ride three abreast. Or to pop wheelies on Yonge St.

They all do it anyway? (And, yes, I’ve watched cyclists impersonate Cirque du Soleil on Yonge St.)

Worst of all, if Idaho stops at signs are okay — and undeserving of the $110 fine — why not stoplights ($325)?

Photographer Michael Peake and I tried to interview cyclists at a red light on Bloor St. about the bike lane pilot project last month — but they all blew right through it. Some didn’t even bother to check both ways for traffic.

So why bother them with a silly law?

Idaho stop? May I also suggest the litterbug hop — as long as you toss your crap in the general direction of a bin, you’re within the law. Afterall, we do it anyway.

There’s a bylaw forbidding you to “spit upon any public sidewalk, or in any passageway, stairway or entrance — except in a proper receptacle.”

What’s the point? That bylaw ain’t worth spit. It hasn’t been enforced since, oh, the Black Death. So kibosh it?

Nor is anyone supposed to “indulge in riotous, boisterous, violent, threatening, or illegal conduct or use profane or abusive language” in a city park. The fine is $205. Hell, in my neighbourhood, I encounter all those things as soon as I roll out of bed. So why not make it legal, as long as no one gets hurt?

See what I mean?

Cycle Toronto, the yappiest bicycult mouthpiece, hypes the Idaho stop from time to time, arguing it allows bicycles to maintain momentum and balance, blah, blah. (So motorcycles should be exempt from full stops, too?

On the other hand, perhaps it is time to change the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, which considers bicycles to be “vehicles” and subject to rules of the road.

Cyclists have nearly convinced me they’re special. The Idaho stop will further set them above us. Maybe it’s a good thing.

In Idaho.

Strobel’s column usually runs Monday to Friday

mstrobel@postmedia.com