Matthew's Journal

nor are they [cyclists] going to intimidate the car by overtaking closely.

I dispute this.

When sitting in a slow moving queue of traffic a cyclist that appears rapidly (in relation to the rest of the traffic) on ones inside where the wing / door mirror (when fitted) has a poorer field of view can be quite intimidating.

Also I have had my paintwork scratched by a cyclist undertaking me when I was stationary at traffic lights by scraping his peddles along the door of my car. He then jumped the red light and cycled away crossing the road between the vehicles whose right of way it was and cycled off into the distance.