Out of Pod Experience

Get trained at text reading. I didn't said i didn't get training i said i don't have a license. Those are two somewhat related but different things.

if YOU gentlemen would stop using your cars and bikes to go on the grocery store two blocks away and either go on foot or ride a bicycle yourselves, you wouldn't be so stressed out and gas prices wouldnt be so high.

go to the grocery store more often? instead getting every 2 weeks, go every 2 days?

you'd be amazed at the amount of stuff you can stuff into a backpack.
I can easily carry a week worth of food in my backpack. mind you I'm a student so I don't get tons and tons of food. and I'm only hauling for myself.

back to the topic. I've seen bikers getting a ticket for biking on the sidewalk, but that's because they are being a jackass to the pedestrians on the sidewalk. I slow down, give them right of way, or just get off the sidewalk. and I've never been stopped by a police officer. even when I biked right past about a dozen in a speed trap.
and there's a training system in British Columbia, Canada to get kids into biking properly. and aside from signaling I follow all the rules. I don't signal because I'm constantly watching what's around me and won't cross the street or pass through a turn lane without letting anyone already there though first.

and looking at the 2 comments that came up when I was writing this. no I do not have some massive hiking backpack. I have something like this. I say something like since they no longer carry the backpack I have. but this is a close approximation.

What's really irritating is when they decide to cause mass traffic jams downtown Chicago on Fridays during rush hour to prove how "important" they are with their "critical mass" rides.

Bicyclists in Chicago are a bunch of pompous, self-entitled wanna-be hippies. Honestly, ride your bike, don't be a jerk about it, and don't be stupid about it. I don't know how many times they refuse to ride single file in the bike lanes that were provided for them, scream and holler at drivers that have done nothing wrong but decide that the guy waiting to turn left or right or whatever has personally insulted them by having their car sitting there with a turn signal on, or ride down the middle of the road in packs just to **** off anyone trying to drive down the street.

There are good and bad cyclists. Good ones will check what's behind them, bad ones won't.

Bad cyclists do things that endanger other people and themselves. For example. at a T-junction, I am turning right (this is in the UK). Now, at this particular junction, I have a green light to turn right, but there is traffic coming from my right that has a green to turn left, and it is a tight corner, so large vehicles such as buses will occasionally encroach on the roadspace that I would be using.
The lights change, and I begin to turn right. There are 2 cars ahead of me. I am turning right, and I observe a bus turning left, so I take a wide line, to avoid any chance of clipping the bus, which I have seen happen at that junction.
And a cyclist that was attempting to pass on my left, on my blind side, was taking a tight line and had to alter their line to avoid running into my car, and saw fit to hurl abuse at having to slow down. Onoes.

I read an article, that said female cyclists are proportionally more likely to be killed or injured than male cyclists.
It suggested this is due to intimidation from other road users, and also a sense of consideration for others, which means female cyclists tend to ride closer to the kerbside, which encourages other road users to attempt overtaking in more situations, attempting to squeeze past when there isn't quite enough room. The inevitable happens, and the female cyclist is hit.
Whereas male cyclists, tending to be further out from the kerbside, do not present the same opportunities for people to attempt squeezing past, instead having to wait until a proper gap opens up.

So, for female cyclists, riding in a less considerate fashion, i.e. staying far out from the kerbside, thus preventing people passing, is safer.

I agree, They Take up My Motorbike Sneaky wee Gaps for getting to the Front....

There's a difference between a biker and a cyclist, please don't lump me in with those hippies that are afraid to use engines

What are you trying to compensate for?

Funny, that's the first thing I think of when I see cyclists wearing clothes scientifically designed to make the size of their abs clearly visible to every man, woman and child who looks at them.

Which is what, exactly?