Bicycle Hater page on facebook...

[sarahspins]

if one of the participants causes harm to a cyclist and the page owner gets sued for rewarding/reinforcing/legitimizing such attitudes .... this could get very interesting.

I agree.. and there HAVE been legal cases (not necessarily related to cycling) where thoughts/comments posted to social networking sites have been used as evidence... honestly if was ever hit or something that's one of the first things I'd be asking to be investigated (of course I say that, and I was hit as a pedestrian a little over 10 years ago, and I just let it go, even though I probably shouldn't have, and if it were to happen today, I certainly wouldn't now.. but I'm not as naive to the world as I was then).

I think we ALL know people who will say to our faces "you know, I don't mind that YOU ride your bike, but I can't stand all of those other people who think they own the road" - it's very frustrating and 99% of those comments are based on ignorance and inconsideration. I hate admitting that I have people who say those things within my own family, but at the same time I don't see any them doing anything to try to harm a cyclist, even if they "don't" like them on the road. So I don't think that attitudes/comments always go along with actions.

[chicagogal]

I am often finding myself defending cyclists to my friends who don't ride. First of all, my non-cycling friends think that I am "crazy" for riding my bike (and even crazier for riding indoors on a trainer at 6:30AM on a sat in the winter). When I told one of my friends what route we took for a road ride a while back, her response was along the lines of: "but there is no bike lane there! . . . I always thought you might be one of THOSE cyclists. . . " Umm, I don't know what you mean. We abide by all traffic rules, stopping at all red lights, and ride as far to the right side of the road as is safe. As a driver, she is terrified of hitting a cyclists, b/c she doesn't know how she would live with herself if something happened. As a result she hates sharing the road.

I tell her that I appreciate that she is cautious when passing cyclists, but tell her that she is going to have to get over her fear - the cyclists certainly had to get over their fear of sharing the road with her!

[albe]

I reported them.

I was disgusted when I saw the page...