I passed another commuter this morning and I hear him yelling something. I though, maybe something fell off of my bike, but as I look back I hear him calling me an a**hole. I'm like WTF? So I slow down and ask him what the hell his problem is and he starts yelling how I passed him, cut him off, squeezed between him and the traffic, "if a car did this to you, you'd be screaming"...



OK, I am not a car and it was him who was screaming. We're in a painted bike lane and there was like 6 feet between him and the traffic. It's a busy lane, cyclists pass one another all the time, nobody was endangered even for a second. And actually, just a couple of blocks earlier, he squeezed between a bus leaving the stop and the trucks in traffic while me and one other guy took safely to the right side of the bus. I actually noticed him because of that and kept away because he was checked in my mind as "erratic" so when I decided to pass him it was in a pretty wide, safe spot.

What a nutjob. And he was decked out in high-vis gear, panniers, large mirror. I told him that if he's afraid of riding on the streets he should walk on the sidewalk. Damn nut was in rage, fuming. Jesus F Christ... Imagine him when he's actually right-hooked by a car??? But then, he was riding an electric-assist bike so that should give him away as a potential nut Really, if people are that scared of riding, they should not ride their bikes on the streets.