I don’t ride a bike like these guys with the spandex shorts and helmets do. I’ve had the same bike since around 2004. Every now and then I’ll jump on it - with whatever clothes I happen to be wearing at the time - for the hell of it and ride it around the neighborhood.
When I get a wild hair, if I get on a road and there’s no bike lane, I’ll either get on the sidewalk or pull over in the dirt and let cars pass if I’m in their way.
I see jackasses all over the place here riding in the middle of the lane as though they’re on full blown motorcycles instead of a gay ass bikes.
9 times out of 10, they are phagity old, gray ass university professors. I live about one minute up the block from the university. Biggest douche bags on the face of the earth.
