Originally Posted by
bdinger
Sadly, for some of these, I see their reasoning. There is a great group of law abiding cycle commuters in this city, and there is a group of people transplanted straight from the SUV to the bicycle. Then there's even another who thinks that nothing stinks, and laws don't apply to them. Unfortunately the latter two groups get noticed a lot, and do some really colossally stupid stuff. So for drivers to be a little on the upset side, yeah, I'd see it. I've seen FAR too many "wrong way" cyclists, and ones who put themselves in the middle of the left lane.
As with anything, it puts a bad image on the rest of us. Just like the ******* drivers do to the nice and considerate majority.
Yep, it is the minority of yahoos that get noticed. I see it myself. In the last week while in my car, I have seen a biker going the wrong way on a busy street shoulder and another blowing through stop signs in a neighborhood - not just slow and goes but right through them. On my way home today, I saw someone riding the yellow stripe with no indication of why. I assume they were eventually going to turn left but they were a disaster waiting to happen.
Around here I am lucky in that, almost exclusively, the drivers are courteous and not anti-cyclist. No honking, no throwing stuff, no ignoring you at stop signs, etc. With the problems I am seeing now, I am afraid that may change.