As I’m about to turn 58 years of age, I find the need to be honest and admit facetiously that, you guys with your lists of pet peeves sound like a bunch of 3-year-old “whiner-pants-McPoopy-butts” who don’t constantly get their own way. It makes me wonder how you manage to enjoy yourselves when bicycling with all those complaints?

As for me, I actually enjoy encountering all of the diversities of road riding, as you never know precisely what and when to expect things and it keeps things interesting. If you ride with an appropriate level of awareness, you can avoid most troublesome encounters with little effort and actually learn to appreciate those deviations in human imperfection. In the utter absence of such imperfections, rides would get boring in no time!

And so, I actually enjoy encountering the night-Ninjas, the jaywalkers, the side-walkers, the Salmoners, the right-hookers, the horn honkers, the drivers that tell me to “ride on the sidewalk” or “buy a car, hippie” or “this road doesn’t have a bicycle lane”, or the drivers that ride in the head-on traffic lane just to tell me “You were riding in my lane” (even though I was descending at the speed limit or faster), and so on. It all makes for an interesting, sometimes dangerously exciting, and even humorous riding adventure that we get to share with others afterwards. I wouldn’t have it any other way.