Yeah, some people on bikes are incredibly inconsiderate, but the bike isn't the problem. If more people rode bikes, the social norms about where to ride / not t

Yeah, some people on bikes are incredibly inconsiderate, but the bike isn't the problem. If more people rode bikes, the social norms about where to ride / not to ride would be better understood, and the social pressures would be clearer. This sort of thing also happened when cars where new, though then people actually got killed instead of just annoyed. See Clay McShane's _Down the Asphalt Path_ (http://books.google.com/books?id=hoFKI-yodUQC&pg=RA1-PA176&dq=cars+hitting+pedestrians+%22new+york%22+italian++neighborhoods&ei=cez9SNqgMIHwMpSh2cML http://books.google.com/books?id=hoFKI-yodUQC&pg=RA1-PA1...) Similarly, people who don't know about how to ride bikes safely are far more likely to ride against traffic, weaving in and out of parking lanes and sidewalks, etc. Most people in the US have had no education about how to ride a bike in traffic safely, because riding bikes as transportation has never really been a mainstream thing. (Even two or three one-hour classes and showing people how to fix a flat tire would go a long way, I think.)