That's me back now. Had a great time in Cambridge (very good course) and some lovely weather....if only I had a chance to be out in it!
In all honesty, cyclists in the centre and surrounding area were pretty poor at keeping to the rules. I was leaving on Sunday and there was a running race about to start as I was walking to the station. (I had a very heavy suitcase and the handle had just snapped!!
. Anyway, on the way to the station nearly every cyclist I saw was jumping onto the pavement. Yes there was a queue of traffic, but they could have got past that quite easily on the other side of the cars.
But, as others have said, Cambridge/Oxford are unusual cases, in that there are lots of students from elsewhere etc. Still, I can almost understand how others could grow to dislike the cyclists there.
On an unrelated note, I was staying in Downing College. Very nice. They don't actually use that for student accommodation do they? Far too nice!!