I think there’s plenty of blame to go around on this one.
Being a cyclist I’ve been on both sides of this.
Yes the old man was a road raging jackass.
Something no one has mentioned is these cyclists ride in these big groups because I suspect many
have delusions they are in the peloton at The Tour De France and they think they own the road.
THEY’RE NOT AND THEY DON’T.
Personally I fixed this problem by selling my carbon fiber, getting off the bike lane and buying a comuter bike to ride sidewalk.
Biggest reason was cars drifting into the bike path which resulted in too many close calls.
You are right. At the end of the day, its a matter of common sense, setting reasonable expectations and courtesy. The cyclists have a right to use the road whether the old man likes it or not. But the cyclists should pull over every once in a while, to let motor traffic pass, especially if they see that there is a large line of cars behind them or if a car has been behind them for a while. And the motorist needs to reset his expectations. Its ironic that an elderly person did this. Many times a younger person gets frustrated with an elderly person driving slowly and wants them to pull over or drive more quickly.
I am a cyclist as well.
Correction: Former cyclist, due to the extreme nature of the activists here fomenting natural anger among the vehicular public, some of them hypocrites who supported the gross expansion of cycling activism (which is overwhelmingly ANTI CAR). I chose to not endanger myself and gave it up.
There is a biting amount of sarcastic underscore in my prior comment, but I left off my sarc tag with purpose:
What this guy did is nearly every vehicle driver’s closet fantasy.
Anyone leaving out discussion of the responsibility of these cyclists are hypocrites themselves.
After watching the jerks with their expensive bikes and uniforms riding the coast road (North San Diego coast)and doing all the annoying things they do, it would be refreshing to get back to Ocean Beach (San Diego hippie beach area at the time) and see the older guys on their old beater bikes and wearing jeans and t-shirts weaving in and out on the sidewalks and the side of the street and stopping at the lights and stop signs trying to stay out of the way of the cars, just the way they and all of us did as kids.
As kids we rode everywhere and tried to avoid the cars and interfering with them.
Modern adult bike riders can’t do like we did as kids because they are seriously exercising or commuting, and we accommodate them to a point, the problem is that they need what should be a TINY amount of modern laws and accommodation and more effort to ride like kids used to when the cars were the dominate contraption to be on the roads, in other words they need to dial it back some and the compromises between car and bicycles has gone too far toward the bicycles in laws and road/bike path construction .
Yes, that is a big part of why I don't ride the roads around here. Far too many people drive and text/look at their phones while driving, and I don't feel like dying because someone can't be bothered to pay attention to DRIVING their vehicle.
There’s a lot of irony in this piece
https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/30/e-bike-regulation-license-plates-laws-dmv/