If all cyclists rode according to the letter ot the law at all times, cyclist-hating drivers would still give us crap for entirely legal behaviour such as riding two abreast, not using cycle paths, cycling on (shared use) pavements, not paying road tax, riding too slowly, riding too fast, riding in primary, filtering, not filtering, wearing lycra, not wearing lycra, and being smug.
Put another way, if law breaking cyclists give us all a bad name, how come law breaking drivers don't give all drivers a bad name?
(For the avoidance of doubt, none of this is justification for breaking the laws. But if your primary reason for not breaking them is in the hope that car drivers will like us all more, forget it ...)
Put another way, if law breaking cyclists give us all a bad name, how come law breaking drivers don't give all drivers a bad name?
(For the avoidance of doubt, none of this is justification for breaking the laws. But if your primary reason for not breaking them is in the hope that car drivers will like us all more, forget it ...)