RacerX, my post was a bit of sarcasm to illustrate exactly what you point out - imposing a slight inconvenience is tantamount to provoking hostility. I merely tried to show the all-too-common, one-way thinking that occurs when a typical driver encounters a bike: All bikes must yield to a car because, "My time is more important." It's just as valid to reverse this to, "All cars must yield to bikes, because their time is unimportant to me, the cyclist." Both views are eqally valid based on the flawed logic.

I don't purposely delay traffic, but if the conditions warrant me taking a traffic lane, I do so. And I will remove myself from it, out of courtesy, when I am able. Until then, cars behind will just have to wait until they are able to move beyond. We are all (legal users of the road) entitled to, and subjected to this.

Gee, sometimes you have to wait. . . you'd think the traffic jams would condition a driver to expect delays as a matter of course.

Edit to add: And Oregon just passed a law that requires autos to wait until a pedestrian is across ALL lanes of traffic at controlled stops before continuing across the crosswalk (even right turns must wait until the ped steps foot on the sidewalk at the other side). How impatient are people going to get while wating for someone to cross the entirety of a 4-lane, with center turn highway, before making their right turn? I'm thinking everybody will curse this law because it slows them down and nobody will abide by it. . . or as we've already experienced in January, someone will jump into impatiently into the bike lane to swerve around cars stopped at the crosswalk and "accidentally" run the pedestrians down, killing them. Those "pesky" crosswalks should be done away with. . .