But dude ... he has 400 HORSEPOWER!!!!!!!!!

He should never have to wait.

This is the one that gets me.

The guys in Motor Vehicles will plow through stuff which would spill me ... and if I fall, I fall Right in Front of Their Motor Vehicles.

(You think it's inconvenient to wait a few seconds, imagine the inconvenience of having to stand around filling out police reports a s the ambulance takes me away ... and the lawsuit I file because sorry dude: That's failure to use care and caution in passing. If you hit me from behind you were too close and traveling too fast.)

It has been worse lately with the high winds and weather .... but any time there is roadside debris, I Have to go around it. I cannot plow over the garbage bag blocking the bike lane, and hope there is nothing inside that will know me down. I cannot crash through the fallen branches. I cannot plow through the pile of fallen leaves or evergreen needles .... I have no idea how deep, how, or how slippery they are, and what might be hiding underneath.

I can blast through that big pile of sand ... half the time I won't crash right in front of you.

Worst is simply really bad pavement. if there is a bike lane but a lot of the underlying earth has washed away and most of the pavement is severely cracked and crumbling I'd have top be an idiot to cross it. Not only could some of the big cracks and pits throw me, I have no idea how stable the rest might be.

Thing is .... the buttsucker in the Firebird or pick-up truck isn't looking at bike level for roadside obstacles. He or she is looking at all that empty road ahead and imagine erasing his/her failures and feelings of powerlessness by stomping on the gas pedal and pretending s/he isn't a loser and a failure.

None of those drivers, including the (characterizations omitted) OP, is looking at the pavement knowing that an error could cause a fatal crash.

Anyway ... I cannot take this sort of post too seriously. it highlights a real issue, but I figure the OP probably just posted to stir things up, No one could be that big of a small person and willing to admit it.

Yeah but if Driver's Ed did a decent job ... then all those (characterization omitted) drivers would know the laws pertaining to Bicycles as Vehicles .... including the lwas which permit cyclists to take a lane in some circumstances.

The more I read this post the more I appreciate the OP's sense of humor. This is one of the best sub-bridge dweller's threads I have read in Quite a while.

Well done, OP.