Originally Posted by JJakucyk
I've actually found that the worse the neighborhood (to a point), the more the people tend to just leave you alone. Even riding downtown by the Reds and Bengals stadiums has never been a problem, and I've been down there several times as people are coming to baseball games. So overall I think (hope) you've just been unlucky to run into a disproportionate number of jerks.
That's because in the inner cities bikes are a legitimate form of transportation - by messengers, undocumented workers, and ...ahem...drug dealers
Plus the pimping lowrider bike thing is pretty big here in socal...so conceivably in rougher neighborhoods you might actually have
more street cred on your bike (just chrome out your ksyriums
)
Sad to say, but where I ride the attitude I get is primarily from the rich (white) kids in daddy's Acura rather than from the homies in the '77 Olds.