[YtGoodman]

My observation is that perfectly nice people turn into sociopaths when biking on public roads. They instantly become resentful of all other road users, especially pedestrians or drivers who they slow down. You can watch the transformation in real time.

[xracy]

I have never seen this from cyclists towards pedestrians. I've seen resentment towards drivers almost hitting them...

This feels like a very driver's view of cyclists, and not a cyclists view.

But ultimately, I think cyclists are just people.

[timeon]

There are more drivers like that.

[lapetitejort]

How much damage can a sociopath do with a 7kg bike with no airbags?

[falcolas]

1) 7kg is on the featherweight end of the bike scale - that is not representative of most bikes on the road

2) A fair bit when you include the 80kg rider going at 24kph into an unaware pedestrian.

[xracy]

Are we actually going to compare the momentum of a bike in a vacuum? I will give you 20kg for a bike even, because the weight of the bike is so negligible.

100kg * 24km/h = 2400 kgkm/h

vs a car

If we cross-reference this with a list of pedestrian fatalities based on speed [1] Assuming a standard car size of 1000kg.

1000kg * 25kph = 25000 kgkm/h == 10% Risk of severe Injury

1000kg * 37kph = 37000 kgkm/h == 10% Fatality

1000kg * 51kph = 52000 kgkm/h == 25% Fatality

1000kg * 67kph = 67000 kgkm/h == 50% Fatality

1000kg * 80kph = 80000 kgkm/h == 75% Fatality

1000kg * 93kph = 93000 kgkm/h == 90% Fatality

I'm not saying this doesn't happen, but you're looking at momentums that are an order of magnitude smaller than momentums where people are at severe risk of injury with a car. I will choose to get hit by the bicycle every day of the week.

[1] https://aaafoundation.org/impact-speed-pedestrians-risk-seve....

2016-2020 Data: https://www.moneygeek.com/insurance/auto/analysis/pedestrian...