Epic fail

Too many cycle activists bang on about how they want drivers to give them the same space they'd give a car but then they are happy to filter through traffic, skimming wing mirrors etc. They want the space of a car when it suits them and to be as small as a bicycle when that suits them. It should be law that before you post a youtube video or a blog post about how cars give you no room etc that you ride around with a frame like that for a week and see how frustrating it'd be to be the size of a car.

Your homework for this evening is to try and understand the difference between an 80kg person on a bike filtering past a slow moving car, and 1,500+ kg of steel, glass and plastic travelling at 20 to 40 mph past a vulnerable road user.

For added credit, and with reference to your homework assignment, you can then explain why your post is so fundamentally flawed. To do this, you may like to consider rewording your post. For example "Because cyclists pass within 1 foot of a car, it is fine for a car driver to pass within 1 foot of a cyclist", or "car drivers have no responsibility leave a safe distance between them and vulnerable road users, because vulnerable road users are able to filter in slow moving traffic".