Normal rules about red lights, pavements and one-way streets are treated as a matter of supreme indifference by this new army of Lycra-clad maniacs, whose every action demonstrates their contempt for pedestrians and motorists.

I am heartily sick of the lot of them.

A cyclist’s every action demonstrates their contempt for others? That’s a big call.

Although I don’t ride in London, I know some cyclists who do, and do so carefully and lawfully. kimbofo is a safety-conscious rider who sometimes bemoans the lack of discipline in other London cyclists. Does her every action demonstrate her contempt for motorists and pedestrians?

And Havers is “heartily sick” of the lot of us cyclists—that’s a bit all-inclusive, isn’t it? It doesn’t leave much room for the good guys who scrupulously do the right thing. Nope, cyclist=maniac in Nigel’s mind.

Let’s turn it around 180°: daily on the road it is also possible to witness drivers and pedestrians doing reckless, stupid and selfish things. Nowhere in the media does anyone lambast all drivers or all pedestrians based on their subjective observation that some of those people do the wrong thing.

It’s not about a holier-than-thou attitude (although Havers certainly doesn’t mind a bit of sermonising himself), it’s about being fair and reasonable.

And don’t get me started on the various ways that Havers suggests violence can be done to cyclists.

I am a cyclist and Paedestrian! not a car driver.

I also witnessed a half cut cyclist, who scratched a RR wedding car and swore at the driver. The car was Stationary in an assigned parking spot out side the registry office on a Saturday Morning!

Sorry but bikers you’ve got to get that Holier than thou out of your voices!