> Believe it or not, in some places it's actually required to ride in the road along with cars (my current city, for example). That seems ridiculous! So you ha

> Believe it or not, in some places it's actually required to ride in the road along with cars (my current city, for example). That seems ridiculous! So you have bikes in between cars? How often? > Given the likely dire outcomes of collisions between cyclists and cars, and the overarching systems that tend to force cyclists to share the road with drivers in the first place, it feels wrong to me to blame cyclists for "inciting rage". I mean, the rage would be better directed at the city, but emotion isn't rational. If you have someone riding a bike in a lane, 'taking the lane', and can't be overtaken, and they can only do half the speed limit, of course people are going to get mad at them.