Originally Posted by cooker

You can't even blame the guys closest to you - they were probably boxed in like Orb in the Preakness. The leaders should should have swung wide and called a warning.

I remember another annoyance. I'm not bothered by cars overtaking me on residential streets, and ride far enough right to permit it where safe, but at my old office I noticed a cranky older cyclist sometimes in the same street, who would deliberately take the lane even where not necessary, and cuss and give the finger to cars behind him if they tried to squeeze by, or honked to pass.

One day he rode up beside me and started to ride two abreast, striking up a conversation. I glanced back, and noticed he had a couple of cars tailing him, and was making me part of his passive aggressive act. So I said something like "Sorry, you're on your own", and pulled over to the curb till the whole convoy passed.