[GoinAllTheWay]

For the record, I admire cyclists, I really do. But man do they strike me as suicidal at times.

I used to work on 4th st SW and took 5th home to get to Elbow Dr. This is a windy, narrow road. One day on my way home I was approaching a guy on his bike with one of those double wide kid trailer with two of his kids in it. As I was coming up behind him I had to move slightly into the next lane to have a safe distance between him and I. As it usually happens, another car comes from the other direction as we were rounding a corner I had no room so had to move over but realized I had no room left and had to hit the brakes and come in behind the guy on the bike. At the next set of lights he leans over into the passenger windows and said "maybe next time don't drive so close to me" to which I replied "maybe next time you could wait till AFTER rush hour to take your kids down a narrow winding road with your double wide trailer".

Now we have moved offices and take the road behind Chinook to get to Glenmore. There is a residential road before that that has a ton of hills and always has cars parked on the side of the road. Each and every day I manage to be coming up on a cyclist while going up one of the hills with cars parked on it and each and ever time the guy on his bike swing out like 6 feet into my lane WITHOUT LOOKING FIRST. The number of times they have pulled this maneuver almost resulting in them going over my hood is unreal.

A couple of weeks back we were driving to Turner Valley down the Cowboy Trail and there were TONS of people on their bikes, must have been a ride of sorts. There were hundreds of them. So 99.9% of them had the smarts to stay on the right side of the yellow line away from the rumble strips but one jackass as I was coming up on him decided he wanted to pass some people in front of him and went pretty damn close to the middle (again, without even a glance to see if a car was approaching him from behind) of the lane as I was coming up behind him forcing me to go into the oncoming lane. If a car was coming from the other direction, I shudder to think how that could have turned out.