Originally Posted by Ray9

I went from running to cycling in 1983 and I remember people telling me to get on the sidewalk where I belonged. It was incomprehensible to people even then that anyone would ride a bike 50 miles a day as I was doing. People didn't make fun of me, they hated me as they do today because I am seen as an obstacle that doesn't belong on the road. Once an idiot yelled at me that he pays for driver's license to drive on the roads. I yelled back so do I!