Originally Posted by spare_wheel

I am a local advocate and I spend a significant amount of time meeting with local government and planning local actions/demonstrations. I typically advocate for traffic calming and enhanced/protected bike facilities. Nevertheless, I am also a vehement advocate for an idaho stop law, repeal of FRAP, repeal of the mandatory side path law, and strict liability. When I ride like a scofflaw I am often making a political statement. The amusing thing is that many fraidy-cat safety nannies view much of my legal cycling behavior as illegal scofflaw behavior because they suffer from car head and/or project their own insecurities on my bike behavior.