Al,
After your initial post and based on what I see the cyclists doing around here, I went over to our police station and talked to them about the problem and they are the ones that gave me the 98% figure that don't obey the law and none of the cyclists here have any type of inspections or are required to get a license of any kind. If you don't like that figure, take it up with the local police as they are the ones scraping these fools off cars, trucks, and in one case each other as two of the were going to jump the railroad from opposite sides and hit head on in mid air and then fell down the embankment. One of them almost died and will never be the same and the other will always have a limp. For the most part we do get along but you give the impression that cyclists have all the rights of motorists and like it or not, here they don't. They are not supposed to even be on the freeway. At least my neighbor up the street is bringing his kids along correctly. They have to wear helmets and stay out of the center of the road or he will ground them for a week. And if they want to jump, they have to go to the place the city built which is a whole five blocks from here. I have been caught behind slow traffic also, but I have yet to see motor homes line up side by side and block both lanes of a highway that is 4 lanes wide.
Ron
