Originally Posted by
Hippiebrian
I started this as sometimes I get overwhelmed with all the trials and tribulations everyone here seems to be posting about. If I was considering riding my bike regularly and then read the posts here, where everyone is almost getting hit, where helmets are "saving people's lives", and where drivers are so horrible that they need to be narced on, I'd never ride. In reality, cycling is safer than driving, and those things posted in here very rarely happen, and in some people's cycling lives never happen. And that is the message we need to get out.
Possibly that the motorists in your area are more familiar with cyclists, have a better knowledge on how to react when they do interact with them, versus other motorists, in other areas, that do not.
Again, I've only had to report two motorists this year, out of the many thousands that I interact with annually, there's definitely not an epidemic of dangerous motorists in my area, but there's still a good number of them where the incident was what I considered borderline dangerous, enough to keep a personal log, but not enough for me to report to local law enforcement.