I've been biking around NYC for a couple of months now thanks to our new bikeshare program, and I love it most of the time, but really hate it when people get in the way/do stupid thing/etc.
So, how do you not get totally irate when biking and someone does something stupid?
Example: i was cruising down 9th avenue today, which has a dedicated, parking-protected bike lane, and its own bike signals. I was going at a decent speed and 3 guys just stepped of the sidewalk and into the bike lane. I nearly hit them. I screamed at the top of my lungs, "WATCH OUT, GET OUT OF THE BIKE LANE!!!" as I swerved around them (nearly biting it in the process)-had I braked, I would have hit them as they were that close to me, i was at a decent speed, and those bikes are very heavy. I was really shaken up and pissed after that. Then, on our way home tonight, DH and I were riding single-file on the West Side bike path and two people were in front of us riding side by side, with one of them in the opposite bike lane. They wouldn't move over for another solo biker we saw trying to pass them. I started ringing my bell and DH did too and finally they went single file so we could pass them (there was oncoming bike traffic in the opposite lane intermitently and a blind curve ahead, no way we could have safely passed them by going in the other lane). As we rode by, I was so frustrated, I yelled "THAT IS REALLY DANGEROUS WHAT YOU ARE DOING!"
I feel like the amount of yelling that I do has increased drastically and I don't like it. But if someone is doing something that is unsafe, I get so frustrated, I feel like I can't NOT yell at them.
So, how do you more experienced bikers who deal with traffic and pedestrians not get riled up all the time!?