I can’t say I am very fond of arrogant self righteous cyclists. Plus they’re pretty foolish. Some of them seem to be so wound up in what they regard as their “right” to be on the road they risk death or serious injury. Which seems pretty boneheaded to me. I say that as a person who rides bicycles and motorcycles.
I give you as a classic example this bloke:
https://www.news.com.au/national/queens ... 078cceb09aI think it is terrible he was killed and it is particularly tragic for his wife and children. Unfortunately he let ideology override self preservation. It is simply ludicrous to hand over responsibility for your personal safety to a huge number of complete strangers on a busy public road and think nothing will ever go wrong. When you are a highly vulnerable road user you only need one driver to have a moments inattention, and you are the person who is dead or eating all your future meals through a straw. Where I live I see numpty cyclists riding on busy roads when there is a bicycle path three metres to their left. How cretinous is that?
When people tell me they have “the right” to ride on the road and that they should be respected I go: aaah no. Your a dill. I like to point out that as an overweight, bearded, middle aged bloke l have the right to walk into the Mirrabooka Tavern wearing a floral dress, fairy wings and a plastic tiara. If, however, I am stupid enough to exercise that right, I shouldn’t expect to leave the Tavern with the same number of teeth that I walked in with. Or the ability to walk unaided. Or see through both eyes for several days.