(CONTINUED FROM ABOVE):

(2) It's unwise to move rapidly in a bear's field of vision. If the bear interprets your movement as flight, in most instances it's going to chase you.

(3) the "risk" isn't just to you--the cyclist--alone.  It can directly and/or indirectly endanger other people, and definitely impacts the bears themselves which are destroyed after unnecessary, avoidable encounters.

If common sense intrudes on your thrill-seeking activities, I see that as your problem. If you insist on eschewing common sense, we may read about you in the paper. Were it not that the bear you may aggravate into attacking you might then attack someone else, and will most likely be hunted down and killed, I'd be willing to shrug the whole thing off as natural selection at work.

I suggest you go back and read Rick's Op-Ed piece, and further suggest you grow up enough to understand that someone merely voicing concerns which run contrary to your desires doesn't make that someone the devil.