[Jeff Higgins]

It doesn't take a freakin' rocket psychologist to figure out that folks behave differently when they think they are anonymous. Just look at this very BBS - there is certainly no shortage of twits posting some of the most blithering drivel I have ever seen in my life, or girding their virtual loins to post things they would never have the nutsack to say face to face. Real men, one and all, hiding behind their cutsie little screen names.

In the context of this thread, take this very same tough guy and put him in a pack of cyclists. All of a sudden, for a few fleeting moments, he is large and in charge. His surly wife is no longer hen pecking him, his boss is no longer breathing down his little incompetent pencil neck, and he gets to make the rules. No one will dare screw with him - he is a cyclist, by God, and he has rights. And he is going to make damn good and sure everyone knows that. He's the yippy little dog snapping at everything that passes from the protection of his little fence - until someone hops the fence or opens the gate - then he runs off, tail between his legs, whimpering and racing for mama's skirt. Pathetic.