Of all the classic flamewar topics, the cyclists v. drivers death match has the most surprising levels of vitriol. That plus the tedium of rehashing the same old arguments for the unbelievableth time makes for some of the worst HN threads we see. If anything should be globally off topic here, it's this.

I don't mean to pick on you personally! It's a systemic failure of the community to keep its hivemind.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17731908 and marked it off-topic.