Solo Drivers should be appreciative of buses, bicyclists, pedestrians and carpoolers -not resentful

[JDPriestly]

54. Try dropping off your 2 year old at day care on a bike.

Try walking a mile when you're in recovery from hip or knee surgery.

Try riding a bike when you are 75 and worked in an office or a classroom all your life.

Ride a bike to your appearance before a judge in a courthouse or to your job in the executive suite, whether as a secretary or a top dog.

People drive solo in cars for many, many reasons. Some who do not ride bikes do other things that help the environment more than bike riders do -- like put solar panels on their houses or plant trees in their yards or do without air conditioning, bundle up and turn down the heat in the winter.

There is utterly no reason for bike riders to feel superior or more righteous with regard to saving the planet than those who do not ride bikes.

And when riding a bike, people should ride safely. Same for pedestrians (my favorite form of transportation) and those who use public transit.

Best place to ride a bike is on the streets that are less well traveled. When possible stay away from the high streets, from the major arteries.

That harried mother who has three screaming kids in her car and is already trying to watch out for buses, pedestrians, parking cars and emergency vehicles will appreciate it. Accidents don't help the environment. Try not to cause them.

Slow vehicles should pull over to the right, whether they are buses, cars or bicycles. It's the law in most places. And don't run lights or stop signs.

All drivers need to be courteous. That goes for bike riders too. In Los Angeles, sadly, a large number of bike riders are very discourteous and don't follow the rules of the road.

California Codes

21202. (a) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed
less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction
at that time shall ride as close as practicable to the right-hand
curb or edge of the roadway except under any of the following
situations:
(1) When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle
proceeding in the same direction.
(2) When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a
private road or driveway.
(3) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including, but
not limited to, fixed or moving objects, vehicles, bicycles,
pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or substandard width lanes)
that make it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge,
subject to the provisions of Section 21656. For purposes of this
section, a "substandard width lane" is a lane that is too narrow for
a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side within the
lane.
(4) When approaching a place where a right turn is authorized.
(b) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway of a highway,
which highway carries traffic in one direction only and has two or
more marked traffic lanes, may ride as near the left-hand curb or
edge of that roadway as practicable.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&group=21001-22000&file=21200-21212

Unless you are riding your bike at the speed of the cars in front and behind you, you should pull over to the right side of the road.

Seems to me that should end the show-off bike riders who like to ride several in a row right down the middle of the street so that they can slow down traffic.

Are there any bicycles with speedometers?