Aarrrg, I know your feeling. Scary indeed!!

Thanks for opening this thread so I can vent too. Sorry for sort-of-hijacking, but this is also a case of crazy cyclist.

Yesterday, I was on my road bike with my sweet partner coming home from a long hilly ride. We need to cross a big, long (about 1 mile) bridge (Lions Gate, for those familiar with Vancouver). There is a great sidewalk for cyclists, one way only, that's shared with pedestrians. It's not very wide but works well. There are lots of people cycling and walking on that bridge.

As we turned the corner to start ascending the bridge, there was a woman on a mountain bike with a DOG on a leash and her small child (maybe 7 yo) in front of her on his own bike. I was so mad. My husband was ahead of me and, as he much dislikes confrontation, he actually jumped down the curb, passed her and somehow jumped back on the sidewalk (I suspect he stopped and walked back up). I, on the other hand, have no skills to jump off curbs on a road bike and no patience for people who thoughtlessly endanger others like that. As I approached her from behind I announced: "I will pass you on your..." and before I could finish my sentence (I was still trying to decide which way I would have to pass, the dog was moving around unpredictably) she tried to stop while the dog kept going forward and almost fell off her bike. I unclipped and stopped just in time not to hit her.

I was MAD and told her that the dog had no business there and that she was endangering everyone and that she should turn around immediately. There were parents with their little kids coming in the opposite direction (not supposed to be there either - it's a one-way path), and the little girl was right in the dog's path. The woman just looked at me and said nothing, so I left.

[In the meantime, no doubt my husband was annoyed and embarrassed but boy! was I mad.]

What are these people thinking????????