ed_rex

We have a huge "Share the Road" contingent here. Which is all fine and good. However, I find that cyclists actually mean "Stay the Hell Away and Give Us the Road". I reach this conclusion by the way large numbers of them refuse to stay to right of the lane as much as they can on the curvy mountain roads I drive. I realize that they are out having fun and feeling like they shouldn't have to watch out for themselves, but when they decide that they need to be in the middle of the lane to enjoy themselves instead of off to the right of the lane where they are supposed to be, the chances that they will get hit by someone on their way to work or home or wherever coming downhill coming around a blind curve who suddenly finds a bicycle in front of them are very, very high. Those chances get even higher when the cyclist crosses over the middle line and is coming downhill at an uphill driver in the uphill driver's lane. Not a pleasant place to be as a driver, but the cyclists are too self-centered to recognize that fact.

I used to be more tolerant, but experience with cyclists has made me the way I am now.