Shortcut & A Talk with All You Angry Drivers Out There 

I'm a driver and haven't driven a bicycle since I was a kid because of the safety... and I never understood people being so angry at 2-wheelers on the street. Maybe they are jealous or something, I don't know.

Before I started commuting by bike, I would have said that most motorists share the road fairly with bikes. Now, I say that most motorists are annoyed having to share "their" road and a few are even hostile towards non-vehicles. We can even see this one of your other videos where a driver honks and passes too closely because they are annoyed that they have to change lanes to pass. I agree that people online saying threatening things aren't likely to do anything. Ironically, the anonymity of being enclosed in a car and being online both can produce the same toxic behavior. We need more bike lanes (especially ones that aren't incomplete) and more bike paths so that people are more comfortable and safer when choose to ride a bike instead of taking the car. Entitled drivers with their larger and larger cars, trucks, and SUVs are ruining it for everyone.

100% agree that many people seek out bicycle videos just to vent hate. I began catering to them recently, mostly in my titles. I'm planning to sell stickers with the best/most hateful comments. 1st one will be, "Keep your toys in your yard" with a bicycle in the center. $5 from a hater is better than $50 from a supporter :) I LOVE how you narrate and explain. Hope you never lose that from your channel!

We do need safer roads preach! Not just for bikes too because “stroads” are dumb asf for vehicles too. I don’t want to block the street either!

the hate mail means you're doing something right. keep it up!

The general attitude to drivers in any region reflects the cultural and educational level.

You could get hit by an F150 while riding a stationary bike in your living room and they would leave comments raging about the cyclist being at fault.

Hi there 🚴‍♂ new here, but like your point of view, here in tiny Denmark bikers are threatened too. Be safe on the roads 😊

I agree with the poster below that many people go on YT bike vids to to vent hate, but I think to some degree there really are some drivers out there who want to inflict harm. Back when those protected bike lanes went up up Encinitas (I still haven't ridden on them yet), I made a comment on 10news San Diego's post on FB. The comment being something to the affect I look forward to trying them. I get a whole bunch of ha ha reactions and several people flat out said they look forward to running me over. One guy claimed to be a commercial truck driver and flat out said he'd like me under his truck. I actually tired to look up his info so see what company he worked for because I really wanted to report him. Maybe they were just trolling to get a reaction but one never knows with people.

In British social media the favorite insult of the anti-cyclist gang is "nonce", specially directed at those who report dangerous drivers 🤔

Great observations. Some routes we travel on will not have added lanes or any type of bicycle infrastructure recognition - ever. In a perfect world we wouldn’t ever have to be close to traffic. It would be nice, keep advocating. Here is some help. When we travel public roads legally, instead of positioning in an impossible edge riding area, default to controlling the lane until safe to release. Use a rear viewing mirror, acknowledge the passing motorist. Anywhere else use bicycle lane or trail. Pick your routes of course! Stay edge riding in a typical lane of 12 ft and it invites a close needle through pass. Stopped this edge riding behavior two years ago and the issues disappeared. Completely. Decades of commuting I would have argued it’s not the way to travel. My learning curve continues in a region of Kentucky where others say it’s impossible to travel safely. I’m loving it and riding freely and without the traumas others have.

Been threatened too many times on bike, I just want to ride in peace. Cars and the internet make people into monsters.

Relations between cyclists and motorists are a little more civil in Montreal.

Bicycles were invented many decades before the first car, so if anything, Cyclists have a greater claim to be on the road than car-drivers. 🚴‍♀️ 🚴‍♂️

I think the anger comes from a political basis maybe? Pickup truck drivers? I consider myself liberation/right and I wish I could ride safely on the street. I bought a motorcycle instead because it's safer than most bicycles.

I think organized bike rides have done more harm than good for cycling. In the 1990's there were organized 'Critical Mass' protest rides for cyclist safety awareness entailing hundreds of riders blocking major roadways. In Eugene Oregon there was an incident where an ambulance was delayed getting to the hospital with a critically injured patient because of one these protest rides. When cyclists are known for events such as the world naked bike ride the non-cycling public tend to group all cyclists with these fringe groups. Cycling is great low impact exercise but public relations as a whole is severely lacking.

I don't really think all the 'hate' is organic. I put the word hate in quotes because I think there's an agenda rather than true emotion behind a lot of the negativity. How often do average people irl go on murderous or hateful rants about cyclists? That hasn't ever been a thing in my experience. Most people I've known aren't concerned with cyclists at all or when the subject comes up especially concerning biking infrastructure are mildly supportive but mostly indifferent. I think there is a concerted effort by some interest groups to get ahead of the pro biking and micro mobility sentiment and awareness that's slowly starting to gain traction in this country. I know it's a little conspiracy theory leaning, but considering the past actions and tactics of the industries whose interests are impacted by the prospect of more people adopting 'alternative' forms of transportation it's not really a stretch.

I've commuted thousands of miles since the early 90s. I've driven much more, of course. Here is my main comment. We are charging E-Car owners tax dollars when they buy their license plate stickers (in some states) to make up for the tax money they don't pay at the pump. Don't we cyclists have the responsibility to purchase some form of "license" to pay for these extra lanes, bike paths, green paint, and extra land that had to purchased to widen the roads? We're asking for the millions in improvements, but then aren't helping foot the bill when we hop on our bikes. And yes, I am a cyclists and I think this way.

There is a negative stereotype of bike riders that is prevalent. It's those that ride for entitlement. They are not riding as part of a commute and they pick the most congested roads without bike lanes, tons of stop signs and traffic lights, dress up for the Tour de France, cut between cars at stop lights so everyone has to wait for them to get up to speed (which they can't because there is another stop light), and ride only during rush hour. Seems ridiculous but I see it every day. Our city has a very nice laid out series of roads that do have bike lanes and few stops that go to almost every area of town. For unknown reasons, most of our entitled bike riders do not use these roads. They seem to ride to force cars to yield to their privilege. I ride, mostly mountain bikes, but when I do road rides, I use the roads with bike lanes or sidewalks approved for bikes. It is a little out of the way, but the point of riding a bike should be to get where you are going and exercise. More bike riders should encourage this group to stop this practice just as they encourage motor vehicles to respect bike lanes. They likely have some correlation.

i bike in Oz. same issue here. i have to say that those people who seem to argue against riders (me and my experience), 'usually' lack life experience Or intellect. the 'i hate cyclists' argument, usually ends in the 'nay' sayer ending their argument in some form of illogical and irrelevant statement which cannot be countered. this indicates to me that these arguments in and around cycling, presented by the anti-bikers', haven't been thought through: cultural problems usually require an effort to change = bummer. things are slowly getting better in Oz (my experience), mostly through changes in law as well as large but token infrastructure changes. good luck where ever you are 🫡