Bicyclists are certainly a hazard where I live. I’ve come close to hitting one a time or two. We’ve got some narrow hilly streets, and you come around a curve—and there they are. We have bicycle lanes designated, but a lot of them don’t use them.
I was in SF some time ago with a LE buddy crossing a street when one of those maniacs on a bike came zooming up to the crosswalk and yelled out: watch out As...les. Within a nano second as the dope zoomed by, my buddy hit him with a straight right knocking him clear off the bike and into the street. He started screaming where are the police...my buddy said to him you are looking at them and you need to watch you mouth around me.
funniest thing I ever saw...that was about 30 years ago, not so sure the end result today would have been so funny for us.
And I've come close to being hit by one traveling at a high rate of speed. It happened a few years ago as I was leaving work. I had just stepped outside the workplace door, (which is recessed from the sidewalk by about ten feet), walked the ten feet to the edge of the sidewalk, and as I cleared the recess and was about to step onto the sidewalk, a bicyclist came barreling down the sidewalk and missed me by less than a foot. If he would have hit me, it would have meant the hospital for sure or worse.