Originally Posted by
DBrown9383
There are two distinct types of drivers being discussed here. The inattentive guy/gal in an expensive car that feels entitled to ALL the road and doesn't care if he/she crowds you or causes you to crash etc. The second group (the one to which I was referring my story to) is the low life trouble maker out to intentionally ruin someone's day just because he can or gets a kick from doing it. I don't have much experience on a bicycle but walking along the side of roads with kayaking gear, it's usually been an old beat up pick up truck with beer drinking, cigarette smoking unemployed local aresholes out to make trouble. These are not wealthy guys and I make the assumption that they are not well educated either. Sorry if that offends anyone but I call them as I see them. I'm not giving anyone that yells obscenities or hurls eggs out the window at me the benefit of the doubt.
I don't think anyone was offended, certainly I was not. My point was over the last 30ish years of road riding I have had all manner of trash, spit, unknown liquids, diesel smoke, and insults thrown toward me and my friends, and the dufuses commiting these acts are from different economic backgrounds.
I also agree that I usually feel safer cycling in a poorer area, or a working class area. I lived in a rental in an upscale suburb and cycling out there could be perilous. My ex wife was assaulted by a bozo or 2 out there when she was alone.
Another time, a group of us were riding in a very upscale area when we were shouted at by a punk in a Mustang convertible whose license frame proclaimed his USC diploma. He tried to brake-check a couple of us (adw) before he sped off.