road rules.

[7rider]

Can someone please explain how/why people on a good bike with all the "gear" even their brain bucked is on correctly still insist on giving us a bad name by ignoring the rules of the road?! I see many "cyclists" in my town who use the road but refuse to obey traffic signs and the like. This is why drivers don't like cyclists. Truthfully, it really irritates me!!

I'll let you know as soon as someone can tell me why a motorist - with all the "gear" - fully functioning brakes, lights, and a steering wheel, and presumably a brain in their head controlling all of it - can insist on ignoring the rules of the road - speeding, blowing through stop signs, failing to yield the right of way, failing to signal a turn. The list goes on.

You see.....a bicycle is controlled by a human (what they're wearing or not wearing is irrelevant). Just as a motor vehicle is controlled by a human. Humans will do whatever they think they can get away with - whether it's safe, legal, or otherwise. A human on a bicycle is more rare than a human in a motor vehicle. Therefore, what the human on the bike does is more obvious and therefore more visible. The frequency with which a motor vehicle operator ignores the rules of the road is just as high - if not moreso - but by virtue of their numbers and mass, it is easier for them to ignore their own transgressions and lay blame at the "other".