>>1814329>>1814339The other day I had another cyclist yell at me for sidewalk riding.
A bike path I ride fairly often has a ~1 mile gap, and the only alternative is a city street that's overlaid with a state route. Two lanes each direction, 40mph speed limit, the majority of people just turn around.
But there happens to be a 6ft wide sidewalk along the complete length of one side. No pedestrians use it, because this stretch of road is a hellscape of parking lots, shopping centers on one side. The other is hillside that's too steep to build on, and the sidewalk is at the base.
I got to this part of my ride... it's 95F, stiff headwind, busy ass road which quickly ramps up to 5° incline. And an empty sidewalk. So I did the sensible thing.
Not half a minute later, some guy, bibs no jersey, tri shoes, tri bike in the near lane yelling "MAN, you on tha SIDEWALK!"
Then he downshifted, and we both petered up the hill at ~10mph. He ran a red light about 2/3 the way up, didn't even look the other way. Just assumed goodwill on behalf of all the drivers, oblivious to their honking.
>Inb4 some contrarian says, "Based tri guy", etc.I've never seen something like this in real life, but I imagine this guy is the person driver's picture in their head when they think of "cyclists".
