Quote Originally Posted by Kimmyt View Post
I was walking down the hall at work today to give a paper to my fellow cyclist/coworker and heard a guy talking at her about how it is WRONG for cyclists to take up a full lane and how they insist on doing it and of course drivers get angry over this because cyclists are in the WRONG, so of course I interrupted loudly and said, "Actually, according to the law cyclists are able to take up a full lane if the conditions merit it". He cut me off and proceeded to tell me that I could not involve myself in this conversation unless I supported his side of the argument.

I was riding my bike home today and I took up the lane because I needed to turn left pretty soon and there were too many parked cars, I didn't want to get "door-ed". The people in the car behind me honked at me, then a few feet later they proceeded to park just so that the guy in the front passenger seat could get out to tell me how it was wrong for me to take up the "whoooole laaaane", as Mr. Drama put it. I just told him that I could do that if I wanted and that they should read their driver's handbook again.

It happens mostly near my house, it might be because we are close to a freeway exit. I expect it to happen more often in the summer weekends since I live in a very touristy town. Most locals are actually quite bike friendly, but then there's always those few angry ones. I'm actually thinking about putting a patch on my backpack with something like "It's my lane too, learn to share it", or maybe something a little snarkier