Not a rare breed at all. We all know that we and our cycles are no match for cars and trucks. The problems you seem to be encountering seem to have more to do with bad planning by the city than with cyclists.
I ride ... and when I do, I am cautious, knowing that I could meet my maker at any second. As the previous poster said, I do what I can to make sure I am seen and am obeying the laws of the road. All the cyclists I know and ride with do the same. Do car drivers? Nope. They speed. They run stop signs. They make illegal turns. More so that cyclists do. As a driver, I am guilty of these things too. But the thing is, we know we are vulnerable when we’re riding on the roads with cars. Please keep that in mind when you encounter us on the roads.
I’m not going to run you or anyone over. My tax dollars pay for literally THOUSANDS of miles of bike trails in my state; some reason they can’t run the Iron Man on those? They’re JUST as hilly, just as challenging.
Guess you have to live here to know how annoying it is.
Why, it’s almost like being in labor, and 0bama’s motorcade is between you and the hospital! *SMIRK*
Bicyclists are rude beyond belief around here. Several weeks ago we ended up behind 30 or so of them riding 3 wide on a back county road - no bike lanes.
There were semis on the road delivering water or milk and this train of cyclists would not move to single file, which is the law here, forcing these semis, for several miles to drive in the other lane. If a car had come over a hill while those semis were driving on the wrong side of the road, there would have been major damage to a lot of people.
No excuse for that type of selfish behavior on the part of those cyclists.
Unfortunately, around here, it is the rule rather than the exception.
“Please keep that in mind when you encounter us on the roads.”
I do a fair amount of biking and a fair amount of driving. So I see both sides.
Here in CO, the biking militants are complete a$$holes. Riding three abreast up curving mountain roads at 7 mph with a line of cars stretching two miles behind them. Happens all the time. Never occurs to them that they could pull over for a minute and let cars by. Or it does; and they enjoy being jerks.
Deliberate rudeness (not accusing you at all) is dangerous.