Originally Posted by smd4

Are you kidding? Stephan Pastis has made part of a career out of ridiculing cyclists.

Pearls before Swine

Taken as a group, by people who don't consider themselves cyclists, we're generally not viewed favorably...to be diplomatic. Here in the South, with narrow, winding country roads, often it is a variation of "those damn bike riders don't pay any road-use taxes, and yet ride three riders across a lane, making it impossible to pass them!"