On Monday I had a guy use his van to try to persuade me to use the bike path. Pass by me with about six inches between elbow and fenders. I flick him off (my bad, but when you threaten my life it happens) and he slows down and yells and points to the bike path. He's going so slow that i pass around him on the left and we are headed towards a nice curve and so I take the middle of the lane and go my speed. No slower than usual and no faster.

We have a verbal altercation about how there is a bike lane and I tell him that as a proffesional driver he should know that I have equal rights to the roads. He says he's got a person in a wheelchair in the back of the van; which isn't news to me. I'm wondering how I put that person in danger and how they must be feeling riding in a van with this guy. Also if this guy is just trying to drum up more business for himself by running over cyclists that he can haul around after he breaks they're legs.

later in the ride I gave props to striking airline mechanics and talked to some road construction flagmen who were real cool.

Didn't get the van driver's company name or number (printed right on the side of the damn thing!), but I'll keep an eye out for it.

I wonder if his passenger complained?