This thread is so partisan, so self-righteous it hurts. I commute 5 days a week, I witness incidents like these maybe once a month. They are trivial in the extreme. However, I see bikes blatantly go through red lights causing cars to take evasive action and cycle on pavements frightening pedestrians EVERY DAY. Its little wonder that motorist hate us. They should have video cameras and post on youtube.
On my journey from Kingston to Chiswick, general weekday motoring traffic is generally very civilised. Conversely cyclists, particularly in Richmond Park are terrible, regularly failing to give way on roundabouts and cross roads. A few weeks ago I had an idiot who overtook me just before the Kingston exit roundabout intending to turn left in front of me. I was going straight on, as my road positioning would have told any sensible person following me.
From my observations, there are far more idiots on bikes than in cars – there are just a lot more cars.
If we want more respect from motorists we have to improve the riding of the average cyclist.
