The road-raging Portland bicyclist caught on video berating a driver and blocking traffic near the Moda Center earlier this week has come forward.

Sort of.

At 1:30 a.m. Thursday, someone going by “Ret Inia” (we're assuming that’s a fake ID), emailed Hard Drive:

To prove that he was indeed the bicyclist, Mr. Inia attached a photo that he snapped of the motorist holding up his iPhone and, apparently, taking video of him. The driver's wife is in the passenger seat and their child is in the backseat, with traffic stacking up behind their car on eastbound North Weidler Street.

Of course, we asked Mr. Inia if he would like to elaborate further on his side of the story.

This is as far as he would go:

Wow. Two motorist-caused bike crashes in three months: That would explain his over-reaction to driver blocking what he thought was a bike lane (more on that below).

The driver removed the video from his YouTube account on Wednesday night, but gave The Oregonian permission to post it. He said he was concerned that comments about the bicyclist were more negative than he anticipated and wasn't interested in discussing the incident with several television stations trying to contact him after this post went live.

The original post and video of the encounter has elicited a great deal of response, with more than 500 comments in 24 hours.

In fact, reader Matthew Smith went as far as writing a thorough and thoughtful response on his blog "Grandpa Chick." His thesis:

Smith lists the intersections. Enlightening stuff.

At the same time, it's important to remember that we were careful not to generalize: "But his greatest crime was reinforcing negative stereotypes about bicyclists when the vast majority of bike riders out there follow the laws and would have quietly dealt with the situation by just going around your bumper without acting like a fool. Hearts and minds, dude."

Finally, if there's one thing to take away from this drama, it's a better understanding of how drivers are supposed to treat bike lanes. We've written about this in the past. Three times. Still, based on some comments in response to Wednesday's post, there are motorists out there who still seem to think it's OK to drive in the bicycle lane.

It's not. In fact, we made a video explaining the law.



As several riders noted, the driver erroneously said he had blocked a bike lane.

In fact, we're still trying to figure out how the driver was even blocking an intersection.

I was headed south on Vancouver Ave. (The bicyclist) was headed east on Weidler. I got caught in the bike lane at the south side of the intersection. ... And yes he did follow me a little ways now that I look at the map. The video was shot right beyond the point where Vancouver Ave. bends."

Of course, despite this being a place where traffic and transportation issues (such as road rage) are discussed, there are those who apparently think the incident should have been kept in the vault.

Bottom line: We're

. Be cool. And, to quote

, "Be excellent to each other."

A little grace would also help.