Originally Posted by
dynodonn
... one incident happened while I was riding in a 5 ft gutter bike lane, and my personal feeling that it was politically motivated since our city council was set to vote the next day on whether to install additional bike lanes on the same roadway.
The other incident happened while I was riding on a sharrowed roadway, ...
Politically motivated? What would have been the drivers intent in hitting you, to influence the vote for or against the additional bike lanes?
IMO, sharrows are bad because of what they imply to drivers about roads without sharrows.