Thread: Bicycles vs Cars

Its funny how many people like to blame negative motorist attitudes on the minority of cyclists who run red lights and bike couriers. 95% of motorist would never have anything to do with a bike couriers as they are mostly in the cbd's of citys. this is especially true for 'tradies and bogans in commodores' who are often the worst ofenders when it comes to aggression and poor driving against bikes.
the whole cyclists have no respect for the road rules is a red herring thrown up by motorist to justify their irrational hatred of cyclist traffic.
the real reason they hate cyclists is because they are forced to slow down a bit and move over in the lane. They are unable to blame all the cars on the road for the traffic congestion as that would be blaming themselves. hence the cyclist is the perfect scape goat who even though there are hundreds of thousands of cars jamming up the streets and delaying cars journeys by an hour often they love too abuse the cyclist for making them slow down and loose 4 seconds off their journey; And as they sit for 4 minutes at the traffic lights just up the road stuck on the red because there are so many cars going through the intersection, all they can think of is the dam cyclist who slowed them down for 4 seconds, who has now caught up and is legally filtering past them on the left hand side. Those Mongrel cyclist who are lawbreaking bike couriers shouldnt be allowed on the road cause they hold up the traffic!!!!
I'll add anther group to the bike hazzard list-
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