Originally Posted by -=Łem in Pa=-
You shouldnt be holding up traffic.
If riding to the right is that big of a deal and dangerous to you
choose another route. For every person that yelled at you
for holding them up there are 30 others thinking the same thing.
Those people have jobs and places to go too.....why do you think
your reason for holding them up is more important than their reason
for being upset. Its sad the biggest obsticle for us, car-bike animosity,
is one largely created by us.
Well, an important point is that I'm a PART of traffic, so it's not at all a matter of holding it up. I certainly don't say that cars should stop "going too fast" and threatening slower traffic... And to clear something else up, I'm not terrified of riding over debris etc... the idea that I should be made to always ride in that 18 inch wide gutter terrified me at the beginning of my commuting career... We all share a responsibility to one another on the road; cyclists and motorists can certainly live together without harming one another. My wife is French and I've gotten a couple chances go go to France and other European countries. The streets in France are much worse than they are here in OKC, 2 lanes, winding around etc... but the cyclists and the motorists seemed to coexist much better than they do here. My wife is quite shocked at the treatment we cyclists recieve daily. So, I think it's a bit unfair to place the blame for short tempered drivers on us cyclists.