I'll never begrudge someone who commutes on two wheels. I ride the motorized version myself. But yeah, the fucksticks in this town who use bike lanes aren't commuting anywhere. We're subsidizing their choice of exercise with our time and tax dollars and making the roadways, especially intersections, less safe. It's no different than if a group of folks preferred to get exercise playing street hockey and demanded the city carve space out of the roadways for them to do so at any time of day they like.
I know there are decent people who cycle for exercise. I've got friends who do it. But the cycling community has to have a higher percentage of complete and utter pieces of shit than any other group out there, save perhaps the Southern Baptist Convention. I think it's likely because it's such a popular pastime for lawyers.
Our kids are at Lamar Middle School, so I'm at the Shoal Creek and Allandale/Northland intersection between 10-20 times a week, just counting the school drop-off and pick-up trips. At least three or four times every week, I'll be waiting to turn West onto Northland/Allandale from Shoal Creek, the light will turn green, and I'll be stuck waiting on a dipshit to finish taking a long drink of water or finishing up bro-ing out with his fellow cyclist before hiking up his spandex and finally beginning his trek south across the intersection. If you dare to tap the horn, say something, or go ahead and make the turn since they're not moving (after trying your best to get their attention), you have to be prepared for an onslaught of verbal abuse. That's if you're lucky, and it isn't a cavalcade of bespandexed dipshits doing a group ride who plow through the intersection the entire duration of the light, leaving no time for anyone in a vehicle to turn right. At least they're moving, I guess.
Is there a word for a group of cyclists, such as "a murder of crows," "a bloat of hippopotami," or "a pandemonium of parrots"? If not, I'd like to suggest "a sanctimony of cyclists".