Originally Posted by
Roody
Sorry to say it, but the last thing new cyclists should do is read this forum. It's a collection of isolated incidents that are hysterically blown out of all proportion.
Agreed, even those of us who have had negative encounters while on the road agree that they're actually isolated incidents. And that the good encounters far outweigh the bad ones.
I related an isolated negative encounter on another forum and several people there think that I'm an unsafe cyclist who thinks that they have the right to ride wherever they want, whenever they want, however they want.