Good to read some of the history. I just got back on a bike six months ago as an experiment to prove to myself I could conceivably live car free and say "NO, thanks!" to burning petroleum. Silly me, I got hooked! I'm probably doing 90% of our household errands by bicycle and am flirting with the idea of changing careers (back to the world of Office Space) so I can commute too.

Anyway, I was wondering why I read so many horror stories about raging cagers and here I am, mixing it up in traffic and being accepted, even accommodated by the drivers around me. After reading a lot of the Copenhagen cycle blog I'm starting to think it's because so many cycle here at least a little so they have the empathy necessary to wait a couple seconds to pass or make sure not to pull out in the road too far when a bike is coming.