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NO! It is not that conservatives associate bicycle riders with environmentalists. It is that bicyclists don’t share the road, but they hog it. They go ten miles an hour while vehicles go 40, so you have to practically stall if you are behind them. They don’t let you pass because their attitude is - ‘We are equal to cars.” Well, no they are not. And then the cities add bicycle lanes and take out a traffic lane to do so. Let’s see, what else? Oh yes, they are arrogant. They drive through intersections without stopping, and they ignore other vehicle laws. I cannot stand bicyclists.

They should ride on side streets and not on main arteries. !!!!!

It is that bicyclists don’t share the road, but they hog it.

It is as if they willfully ignore the "lug-nut-count-right-of-way" rule.

Whoever has the most lug nuts has the right-of-way.

That's the way I've rolled for the past 52 years (yes, I was driving 90,000 lb. loaded grain trucks 60 miles to town at age 9).

As a cyclist, I understand how you feel. You cast us as the liberals cast conservatives; we’re in the way of you doing things your way. So you make up stories based on what you think others think.

Such thinking is the core of liberalism.

A cyclist has never slowed me down for more than a few seconds. It’s such a loss of my important time. end sarcasm.

NO! It is not that conservatives associate bicycle riders with environmentalists. It is that bicyclists don’t share the road, but they hog it. They go ten miles an hour while vehicles go 40, so you have to practically stall if you are behind them. They don’t let you pass because their attitude is - ‘We are equal to cars.” Well, no they are not. And then the cities add bicycle lanes and take out a traffic lane to do so. Let’s see, what else? Oh yes, they are arrogant. They drive through intersections without stopping, and they ignore other vehicle laws. I cannot stand bicyclists.

I'm a bicyclist and I agree with most of what you're saying. If bicyclists want to be treated like vehicles and use public streets, they need to act like them. Few things tick me off more than to see, while I'm driving a car, other bicyclists doing things like skirting traffic, cruising through intersections, riding two abreast and other illegal activities.

The people who REALLY tick me off are the "Critical Mass-holes". Sometimes I wonder if AC-130 gunships weren't tailor made to deal with them ...

Now, having said that, I support concepts like dedicated bike lanes (which help get cars and bikes out of each other's hair and actually enable the better flow of traffic where bikes and cars are both present - which is increasingly going to be the case) and park and bike lots where people can split their commutes between car and bikes.

And I don't say this out of any sort of "green" nonsense. Biking to work makes sense for a heck of a lot of people. If I could do the last 1/3 of my commute to work on my bike it would save me money (both in gasoline/wear-tear on my car, and in terms of paying exorbitant downtown parking costs) and make me healthier through exercise. But I fully acknowledge that's a personal decision and I would never begrudge anyone for wanting to do differently.

“It is that bicyclists don’t share the road, but they hog it. “

Eugene, OR is the best example of bike nazis I can think of.