Originally Posted by
Polaris OBark
I had always assumed if I looked like I was taking visibility and safety seriously, it would lessen the antagonism, not increase it.
you are using logic where the aggressive people are using emotion. The greater the perceived difference between people/groups, the more suspicion, aggression and bad behavior. Where I live, there plenty of guys with pickup trucks with gun racks whereas me in Lycra on my skinny racing bike probably appears to be some rich entitled alien from a different universe. And they couldn’t be more right.