Originally Posted by DrPete
Sure. You're out on the road in what amounts to underwear, stressing your body and simultaneously trying not to get hit by the multi-thousand pound vehicles zipping by you. It's stressful, and your body responds to that.
It would still probably be helpful to work on keeping your cool, though. Divert the anger from the mouth to the pedals. Sublimation at its finest.
I have to agree with that. When I used to ride in bigger cities I was pretty aggressive, i.e. cleating sides of cars, punching vans and trucks... stupid stuff. Then I hear stuff like a rider in Denver getting shot and killed, a rider in SF getting run over and I started to think about what caused all of that...
Lifes to short for that *****. Now every time I get cut off I just pretend their face is under my back wheel and spin harder! After a year of this, I am still an aggressive rider but not angrily aggressive if that makes any sense.
Side note: Does anyone here ever get sore from NOT riding.