Because when your car hit the runner he died?
Try riding a bicycle on the shoulder of a road, not even outside 1/3 of the lane where you have the right to be and see how your perception changes.
The worst motorist are ones with “Save the Earth” bumper stickers on their Prius
The worstmotorist are ones with Save the Earth bumper stickers on their Prius
Have you been riding a bicycle on the American roadways for very long?
Knowing how poorly people drive cars here, does it make sense that someone would climb on a bicycle and ride on the road alongside three-thousand (plus) pound motor vehicles, separated from them by nothing more than a solid white line?
(Your "right to be there" is no guarantee that you are safe being there.)