Originally Posted by cavernmech

As I rode home last night....with the usual heavily congested traffic on Queen....A guy in a Range Rover pulled up next to me and told me very condescendingly that "you are not a car you know" as I was taking my usual place in the middle of the curb lane. I tried to inform him that #1, I am classed as a vehicle just as he is and that I have every right to my space on the roadway...and #2 he should really bone up on his H.T.A. before criticizing other road users. His response was first hurling cursing insults at me and then telling me if I am going to ride on the road I better do the speed limit!! I amazingly kept my cool with this clown and just told him he was self-important and ignorant and left him behind me, stuck in traffic.
What is it going to take to educate urban car drivers that bicycles are a relevant mode of transportation and we have rights on the road? Congestion is not going to get any better, and as it gets worse, people seem to be in even more of a rush to race home and watch Idol on Tee-vee. Every time I am confronted with some selfish jack-ass like that I lose a little more calmness and just want to pull these arses out of their cars and give em a beat down.