Originally Posted by -=Łem in Pa=-
The reality, REALITY bicyclists face in America is that we are in peoples way. That is the publics perception of us whether you agree with it or not. You add to this by.....holding people up. This is not Europe. People eat Big Macs and would rather drink beer, watch NASCAR or WWF than go to an art museum or think. People who take a lane to go 15 mph created this reality for us. To start to be taken seriously in the US we need to stop creating a hostile enviornment
for ourselves and try to co-exist. Antagonizing people never helped anything.
I don't hold people up. Rush hour traffic holds people up here in southern California. That is the
REALITY. Trust me, if every bicycle in California evaporated overnight there certainly wouldn't be any less hostility out there on the roads. Acting like bicycles don't belong on the road isn't going to get bicycling taken seriously.