Problems with Bicyclists

After I do get to work, one of the things I do is security. One thing that is noticeable is that bicyclists are among the most difficult people to deal with. If they didn't bring a lock for their bike, a couple of them thought that made me responsible for watching it until they got back, and one of them just wouldn't take no for an answer, but went to my supervisor to complain. If she had known that this only made me look good, she probably wouldn't have bothered. Bikes aren't allowed in this building, but try to stop someone bringing a bike in and you could be in for pretty energetic opposition. That's only a small sample of the encounters.

I was wondering if it was just my luck so I brought the topic up with 2 people I work with. They both agreed emphatically. "Yes bicyclists are the worst!" Maybe it's because they are in better shape so when they are in a bad mood they have more energy to put behind it? Or could it be because just a few of the lower class of cyclists are so used to being at least slightly immune to the rules of the road that they are just a little extra upset when any rules at all are thought to apply to them?

That's about all I could come up with thinking about it. Of course 3 people aren't a majority decision on the planet, but I've run into the attitude enough on that job and it seems that I see it in bicycle forums once in awhile.

And yes of course a lot of bicyclists are the best people you would ever want to meet. Some things I like about general bicycle forum attitudes are: they can all read. Yes! They tend to get up early for the commute. They aren't super lazy. (I was sharing a house with 2 people who were recently and that led to quite a few problems.) They put their forum posts in normal paragraphs. (The forum I was reading most for years before this one tended to have posts where each sentence was a paragraph. It seemed odd to me and I didn't really like it.) And the word frugal doesn't usually have a load of contempt attached. So overall, I really like it.

Most of this was originally posted at bikeforums.net. It is a really large bike forum with a lot of information.