To the people yelling at me on my bike from their cars

Wish that I landed on my feet when I flipped over the handlebars...ha.

At least in my experience, someone who yells out their car window is being funny and will yell out some joke. It's not because one of us has put the other in danger. As far as people on bikes blaming everyone but themselves, I hate that too. However, you have to be put in that situation to understand what that bike rider is going through when they're wizzing through traffic and how dangerous is feels when you're going a less than a quarter of the speed limit everyone else is.

Riding in a bike lane next to parked cars for example, there's often someone who opens their door without looking to see if anyone is coming. This can happen seconds before the bike rider reaches their car and what can they do to avoid it? The options are A) Slam on your brakes, B) yell "BIKE APPROACHING!" or something like that, C) Leave the bike lane and ride on the street.

So if you do A) the bike slams on their brakes, they fly over their handle bars or skid if they don't have enough tread on their tires.
If they do B) the person exiting the car may not hear them, and C) they get hit by the car approaching. This is just a car door opening. I heard in L.A. they switched the bike lane from being next to the curb to being between the curb and parked cars, which is great, but the problem is still there.

So you can ride on the sidewalk. Possibly get hit by a car pulling out of a drive way and not looking, or run into a pedestrian, so that's not really an alternative to a bike lane. When you park your car on the street, be aware if there's a bike lane or not, because you need to pay attention if there is.

I see motorcyclists take off quickly at stop lights, and it's probably to avoid getting surrounded by cars. The concept makes sense, but they're still going over the speed limit and they're still putting others at risk.

Honking would be more helpful yes.
 
Bikers get no respect on the road, so I try to keep to bike trails or sidewalks (even though that's technically illegal in my state, a bike colliding with a pedestrian does less damage than a car colliding with a cyclist).

Some morons think they own the road and are just plane jerks, the problem is these morons aren't limited to one kinds of mode of transportation.
Some biker must have a death wish because they ride in the dark without lights wearing dark nonreflective clothing, they're just asking to be hit.

I don't want to come across as sexist, but the majority of the people who almost killed me have been women, maybe that's because women outnumber men (but they're still considered a minority, at least in the USA) or maybe it's some other reason. I get the impression that the men who almost killed me had a "I don't care" attitude and the women just seemed oblivious to their surroundings. A few years ago I was in China walking down the sidewalk minding my own business when a car piloted by a female driver came barreling down the sidewalk against the flow of street traffic right towards me, I stepped out of the way but if I didn't she probably would have hit me, as she didn't even activate the flasher lights, honk the horn or swerve to one side.

I've nearly been in accidents on my bike and in my car because the other drivers were texting; I don't understand it, technology has solved the problem, modern smart phones allow you to dictate your phone's GPS rout, dictate text messages and even read back the replies, yet morons still continue to look at their phones instead of the road, it drives me crazy (pun intended).

When I was a little kid my Dad would pull my brother and I in a small trailer that attached to the back of a standard bike. I've always thought you could get some nice moving shots with a steadicam operator sitting in one of those trailers, but I've never tried it myself.
 
So, a video made the "viral" rounds today - some dude on a skateboard slams into a McLaren, shatters its front windshield ... then, the passenger gets out of the McLaren and begins to chase the skateboarder on foot and eventually off the screen.

A McLaren, in case some of you forgot to check your checking account balance, can run close to $400,000.
 
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