Why car drivers get mad

[Python]

Why didn't they wait until there was a gap in the traffic to pass us??

For exactly the same reasons that some car drivers do the same - often with tragic results.

People like that are road-hogs and think everyone else should get out of their way. They'll do that until one day and they'll go splat.

[IFjane]

People like that are road-hogs and think everyone else should get out of their way. They'll do that until one day and they'll go splat.

Thinning of the herd...

There is a cycling group in a neighboring county & they have several young (early 20's) men who have joined some of our joint rides. Those young men love to ride down our country roads three abreast & don't care if they block traffic. We finally had to tell them that they could block all the traffic they want in their own county, but not while they are with us. We ride these roads all the time & do not want angry drivers out there. We asked them to ride single file (or no more than two abreast IF they aren't blocking traffic) and said if they can't do that then maybe they had better go back home.