Most Oakland drivers are pretty decent about coexisting with bicyclists and sharing the road. Today I had the displeasure of encountering one of the other kind
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Riding in the gutter is dangerous. If the grating is parallel to the direction you are travelling in, you can't steer out of it, and in the worst case your tire could get trapped. Dodging around parked cars is also infinitely more dangerous than staying in the middle of the lane.
Cars and bikes and peace signs aside, if someone just called you an asshole, they have no right to be upset if you flipped them off. If anything they should expect it.
Sometimes it's a good thing that snappy comebacks don't actually come to mind until the situation is past. I was safely home in my living room before I realized the appropriate comeback (if I'd been trying to escalate hostilities) would have been, "No, ma'am, this is two fingers [demonstrate peace sign]; this is one [flip her off]."
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Situations like this make me miss my old college town with its bike lanes everywhere...
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