Originally Posted by
'nother
... If they'd just manage to stop for a red light at a blind corner, or not run every stop sign on the route (while flipping off and yelling obscenities to anyone nearby), I might think differently. But that's not the case. And it's not just a few outliers; it's the bulk of the group...
This still sounds like the behavior of motorists. It also sounds pretty close to the behavior of any group of cyclists that numbers more than a few hundred (with the exception of the obscene gestures and vocabulary words). Years ago (early '80s) things got so bad on the Davis Double Century that the CHP called in its helicopter and several units to crack down on the "riff raff" who were running all the stop signs and refusing to ride as far right as the officers thought they should. (They finally backed off when a CHP vehicle struck a cyclist.)
These rides aren't my style, but I see no reason for folks to be intolerant of them just because they are different from us.