Agreed. My bike is egregiously visible. I put over a hundred reflectors on her (no that's not hyperbole, there are a hundred spokeys and then some) and then lights and a flag, and it's all very bright.

No one sensible wants to hit you when you're out riding, so when you make yourself easy to see, they react accordingly. I've only had a couple shitass drivers who tried to kill me while out driving in the last year. Maybe it's my locale, maybe it's my loud bike, maybe I'm lucky and the local gangs are looking out for me as a favor for keeping my mouth shut that one time (I asked that they keep my bike and my friends' bikes from being stolen as my favor and bikes stopped getting stolen in town). idk.

Cyclists aren't a "problem" any more than traffic lights or stop signs are. Drivers should be able to deal with having to slow down a bit for a few seconds without getting upset about it. If you saw a driver shouting out of his window at a traffic light you'd think they were insane.

Yeah I think the main problem isn't the cyclists themselves, it's that cyclists don't have a safe place ride without getting ran over.

Meaning that, as usual, cars are the problem.

I bike or walk pretty much everywhere I go, so my take on roads and traffic is that they're usually far too car-centric (Norway). Even when I drive, I'm so used to thinking like a cyclist that I become very aware of how poorly roads are often designed around biking.

With that said... The amount of cyclists with an apparent death wish is just staggering. Just two days ago I passed a cyclist in an 80 km/h zone. No issue there. Just around the next turn, I caught up to a second cyclist that I couldn't immediately pass due to oncoming traffic. I'm behind this second cyclist, going downhill at maybe 50 km/h, with oncoming traffic on a relatively narrow road, when I notice that the first cyclist has caught up to us. Instead of placing himself behind me, he decided it was a brilliant idea to squeeze himself into the ≈ 1.5 m gap between me (a 6m long, 2-ton car going at 50 km/h) and the guard rail. At this point, I'm just sitting here terrified that I'll end up accidentally squeezing him into the guard rail and killing him if I happen to move a couple centimeters too close to the edge of the road. I'm seriously afraid of breaking to let him in front of me, because I'm afraid he could hit my side-view mirror if I break unexpectedly (for him). There's oncoming traffic, so I can't move over to give him more space.

To be honest, even when I'm biking myself I far too often find other cyclists to be absolute assholes with no respect for traffic rules. Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone (by a long shot), but man those people cause the rest of us a lot of stress by being a danger to themselves and others.

Luckily, yes. There's a web page where you fill in the details, you upload the footage and then they actually do something about it. Options for "positive action" are:

• Letter - which has the same status as a police warning, i.e. no action taken at the time but it can be used against you later if you go to court for something similar
• Points and fine with the option of taking a driving education course instead
• Points and a fine with no alternative
• Sent to court

All these can be appealed. Interestingly, I once spoke to one of the people who processes the cases. He said that the drivers don't get to see the video footage unless they say they want to appeal. Then they see the footage and almost all of them drop it.

Yeah, plus no fat bikes at all!

I wish bikes just took the whole lane like a car. Half assing it either way is really the problem.

So much to dissect here

First: drive(cycle) predictively, not politely.

Second: I just left a comment about not liking car culture(go on, check my profile. I'm not lying.)

Third:I don't expect anything! I get into the other lane if there is a cyclist. But go on, tell me more about myself.

I’ve never once seen a cyclist stop at a stop sign. Even into oncoming traffic they just ignore them and hope for the best.