Today I stumbled across a Facebook page entitled “There’s a perfectly good path right next to the road you stupid cyclist”. Cyclist hate groups on Facebook are common, but this one in particular is more distasteful than others I have come across because it boasts more than 31,000 fans, and it in no uncertain terms explicitly promotes the murder of cyclists for simply being on the road.

The description for the group reads:

No matter how far to the left you are, you’re taking up my road.

My car is hard, and i am not slowing down!

Status updates include messages such as “saw a cyclist stack it today!” (Nov 29th), with 396 people who like it, and 116 comments, including the following:

Carly Foster – epic fail. Thats so funny Kristen Hawkins – yayyy!!!! stupid cyclists ill run them over! Kay Leggat – Ha ha that will teach them stupid stupid stupid cyclists Ashley Gibson – cyclists suck balls n if i ever hit one i will have no sypathy for them. fukn pilow byters!

The discussions page also contains some interesting exchanges between the cyclists and the anti-cyclists – including this note from one Adam Fry:

Adam Fry wrote on November 20, 2009 at 7:02am