My dad is not fond of cyclists and has said some HORRIBLE things about cyclists as a whole, because of people like her and the thousands of others who flock to my folks' vacation area and disregard rules of the road when they (the tourists) are in such an idyllic place...an idyllic place where people still drive deadly cars. I have often had to remind my parents that they don't live in a "typical" area and that most cyclists riding while not on vacation do not have their brains turned off like the ones they encounter so often.

They regularly see people riding 3 abreast, not sharing the road, disregarding stops, riding on the wrong side of the road, etc. They see this so much that they've come to believe this is how cyclists behave everywhere. It's a shame.