I realize, as both a cyclist and a motorist, that when incidents happen both can be at fault, but what motorists fail to realize is that when it comes to a car versus a bike, the car wins every time, which makes David Zabriskie's organization, "Yield to Life," even more poignantly named. Motorists need to do a better job at sharing the roadways. Unfortunately, in the State that I live in, where radio talk show hosts have even advocated for motorists to throw things at riders as they go by, motorists don't even look at cyclist as living beings, but merely as annoyances to their commute.

I'll say this in regard to the legal case above, regardless of the cyclist's failure to heed to the deputy's repeated attempts, if the deputy was able to drive by and around them several times, it doesn't seem as if the cyclists were impeding traffic; which he was afraid the cyclists were doing.

Please read Bob Mionskie's break down of the incident, as he states, "Gaining the right to the road was the cycling cause of the late nineteenth century; securing that right will be the cycling cause of the early twenty-first century. What happened to Tony and Ryan from the moment the Deputy first decided to say something to them is a real-world example of the challenge cyclists face in securing their right to the road. For most of us, I suspect it's easier to just quietly comply with a law enforcement officer's misguided attempts to enforce laws that don't exist. Sure, we know the officer is wrong, but do we really want to go to jail to make that point, instead of wherever it is we happen to be going at that moment? The problem is, if everybody acquiesces to a violation of our rights, do we still have the right? I would argue that unless the right is exercised, it doesn't exist. Therefore, when a law enforcement officer is enforcing laws that don't exist, it is incumbent upon us to stand up for our rights."