Point one: the suffix -ist implies that a person is proficient at whatever it is that they are doing. Ergo an idiot riding a bicycle who flauts the rules of the road is NOT a bicyclist.

Point two: I just LOVE {dripping with heavy sarcasm here} people who try to tell me how I'm supposed to do something, when I KNOW they do not do that thing at all. i.e.: the ones who haven't been on a bicycle since they were in grade school who try to tell me to ride against traffic; or those who don't keep Shabbat (the 7th Day Sabbath) who say it's okay for me to do such-and-such because "you aren't working".

Point three: The problems with the idiots on bicycles is not just one thing, it's a culmination of several things. 1) Today's society treats a bicycle as a child's play thing, rather than as a vehicle. 2) Driver's education does not include the operation of a bicycle, nor how to operate motor vehicles AROUND bicycles. Yes, there usually are rules of the road for bicycles written into states' Revised Codes, but they are not as widely published nor as widely known as the motor vehicle codes. And since the general attitude of the general public is that a bicycle is a child's play thing and not a vehicle it causes several misconceptions: The idiot on the bike thinks he does not have to follow the rules of the road; the idiot in the motor vehicle thinks the idiot on the bike doesn't have to follow the rules of the road (until an idiot on a bike pulls out right in front of them or something like that); and police officers don't think they have to enforce the rules of the road on the idiots on the bikes (but they do seem to think that it's okay to tell the bicyclists to FLAUT the rules of the road, go figure).

The ONLY way to fix this situation is with a LOT of time, money and EDUCATION (education of not ONLY the idiots on the bicycles, but also the idiots in the motor vehicles and the idiots with the badges, too). The problem is that society (especially in the U.S.A.) is not going to want to spend the time to educate everyone and ESPECIALLY spend all that money. They'd rather complain that the President of the U.S. spends to much time protecting oil interests while burning gasoline which comes from OIL.

My two cents' worth! ~~Bren