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"And stop riding in the middle of the road at rush hour holding traffic to 15 MPH when it would go 40 MPH - and when there is a perfectly good bicycle path - right next to the road - fer chrissakes." 1. It is not safe... or legal.. for cars so "slide by" missing cyclists by inches. However, if we ride over by that line then that is exactly what motorists do. We get killed that way. Strangely enough, we are safer being hated. 2. The bike paths here are used by cyclists... but they go nowhere, end abruptly in unsafe spots, are strewn with debris and have trees and mailboxes hanging into traffic. Fer sakes.

The bike paths here are used by cyclists... but they go nowhere, end abruptly in unsafe spots, are strewn with debris and have trees and mailboxes hanging into traffic. Fer sakes.

I also ride a bike a lot. For every jerk in a car, I have found about 100 jerks on bikes. They are even jerks to other bicyclists. The bike paths I am referring to are separate from the road about 40 ft into a park. They run parallel to the road and go the same place the road does. Still we get a large number of in your face I am going to ride my bike on the road even if it kills both of us folks all the time. Me, I ride my bike on the bike path. It is a whole lot safer and more pleasant.

My first intro to the jerk on a bicycle mentality was in Berkeley, which I think still has the highest concentration. Riding a bicycle the wrong way down the middle of a 5 lane one-way street is to me the height of arrogance. The road running the other direction was one block over.