In this daibutsu's "defense", he does live in DC, probably a very different bike culture. But in defense of everyone else, it's people with attitudes like you, daibutsu, that make drivers hate cyclists. Just sayin'.



In regards to rolling through questionable areas at night, there is one section that I tried to excise from my route because it's a little ghetto and I'll probably have at least one person accost me verbally every week just going through there maybe 2 or 3 nights a week. Now that I'm riding home much later, it's getting worse. I think I'll have to take a more traffic heavy road just to avoid that place at night. It's fine in the daylight, especially early morning. But when I do go through there at night, I always rest up just before so I know I can do 20+ mph and get through it as quick as possible so people don't have as much excuse/opportunity to decide to harass me. Luckily there is only one turn and no stops.