I haven't read all the posts, so apologise if anyone else from the US has responded yet; but, have you considered going to the cyclist's house and shooting him?
In the 4 years I lived there I never really got my head around the male American’s love of blowing the living crap out of creatures both large and small.
OK, so this thread is kinda becoming the general traffic related thread. So I just thought I'd mention "smart motorways". What a load of bollox. 3 years to change 3 lanes into 4 on the M6 only to have the 2 inside lanes end to end with artic lorries doing 50mph and the outside 2 lanes exactly the same as before, so you still have the same ****s doing 60mph in the 3rd lane and anyone wanting to go faster ending up crammed on the outside... and when you try to leave at a junction you take your life into your hands trying to navigate across two lanes of end to end trucks and lorries to get to the slip road.