Originally Posted by CardiacKid
Could it be you get yelled at, etc more often because you ride in the gutter to pass people at stoplights that have just spent 10 minutes going 20 mph below the speed limit to pass you. Yeah I know it is legal, but that doesn't make it right. Ie, it is legal for that SUV to pull all the way over to the right to keep you from passing, but it pi$$es you off.
When I want to around cars, I'm ridinng in the suburbs, sometimes at 5 in the morning, on roads with 2 wide lanes (enough room for 2 cars to go comfortably by me when the road isn't too messed up on the right,) and with little traffic. They're pulling to the right just to be jerks. I'm always concious of the drivers perspective. I let them go by when I'm stopped at a red, when they wait for me I pick up my pace to let them turn or go by me, and I often ride on really rough bumpy part of the road (not easy with an aluminum frame,) just to make more room in high traffic areas.