COEUR d'ALENE - A 64-year-old Post Falls man on Monday pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless driving for using his pickup truck to intimidate two cyclists on a rural roadway in Kootenai County in September 2011.

Larry G. Jones now loses his driving privileges for the next 30 days. Before pleading guilty to reckless driving, Jones had been charged with aggravated assault, a felony, in 1st District Court.

In his Chevy Silverado on Fernan Lake Road, Jones drove up behind the two cyclists, who were traveling about 35 mph down the hill.

Jones was accused of going around the cyclists and then turning into one of them, Lukas D. O'Dowd, and then slamming on his brakes. Jones did that twice, each time exiting his truck and attempting to further confront O'Dowd.

O'Dowd had to slam on his brakes and move toward the right edge of the roadway. The road at the location of the incident is cut into the hillside, with the right edge about five to 10 feet away from a rock face.

O'Dowd has said that any departure from the road on that side would likely be deadly at the speeds they were traveling.

O'Dowd told the court Monday, "I feel like he threatened my life."

Last month, Jones was sentenced to 10 days in jail for battery, a misdemeanor, another charge related to the incident. He completed that sentence.

At the end of the confrontation, Jones punched or shoved O'Dowd, sending him over an embankment on the left side of the roadway.

Jones was found guilty at trial of the battery charge.