Originally Posted by HawkOwl

Today was trying to make a left turn off a main street into a side street and immediately turn right into the parking lot of a strip mall. Wandering in front of me was a person on a bike. I say wandering because the person was just going from lane to lane. I short beeped to let the person know I was there and stopped. The person then wandered around the parking lot nearly hitting several cars and causing confusion before going up on the sidewalk and going back the way the bike had come.

A week ago I was in a major city. It was night and I was walking on the sidewalk beside a 6 lane divided street with a median. An unlit, dark clothed cyclist came down the street, dodging traffic before jumping on the sidewalk and charging through the pedestrians. Shortly after another cyclist, similarly unlit and with dark clothing came bombing down the street, ran the red traffic signal and barely missed some pedestrians enroute down the street.

Another cyclist rode across the street in the crosswalk, between pedestrians who were doing their best to get out of the way.

Things like this are so common most people probably don't even realize there is another way to ride bikes. This kind of riding certainly does nothing to help relations with fellow humans and probably hurts.

Probably no solution short of a Bicycle Riders License. Even then given the Brown Eyeball way many people drive and lack of license enforcement that probably wouldn't help. Guess we'll just have to keep out heads on a swivel, be kind and considerate to others and hope the example catches on.