The Return of the Fair Weather Cyclists..

Summer's (almost) back....more people on their bikes.....good!  After toughing it out commuting through what felt like a pretty bleak winter with the usual all-year round die-hards, the roads/bike path cycle traffic has increased with the return of the 'fair weather gang'.  OK, we're not all complete saints when it comes to obeying the rules, whether it's traffic laws or cycle etiquette, but some of the 'fair weather gang' have a total disregard for any of it.  Nothing's off the table; sailing through red lights, cutting across streams of slow moving traffic at cycle crossings, cutting up other cyclists, going against the traffic up one-ways, pavements etc.  Could be blissful ignorance, sheer bloody mindedness or a combination of both.  Watching some 'Darwinian' manoeuvre you can see the regulars saying to themselves, "looking forward to seeing how this ends".  The annoyed look on motorists faces says it all and when most cyclists are behaving, trying to minimise the animosity between drivers and cyclists, you have to sympathise with them.  I've seen police ticking cyclists off in London; perhaps we should be 'policing our own' but I sense you'd just get a volley of abuse off a miscreant.  Not sure a bit of 'clean and service your bike and pop some more air in your tyres' would be well received!