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NotThamesWater
Wait, so you're saying that if you ride like a dick and inconvenience/endanger someone, that person will be no more likely to 1) expect the next cyclist they encounter to ride like a dick and 2) get angry/angrier at the next cyclist who does the same thing to them?
You inconveniencing/endangering someone whilst riding a bike and them going home and hitting their wife is bollocks. You inconveniencing/endangering someone whilst riding a bike and them being more likely to be less sympathetic/more angry at cyclists in future is more realistic. Not suggesting it's right, but people make snap judgements, these can be dangerous and wrong, but they happen. I don't want to be riding in front of someone who's just had their door kicked by a cyclist, or who's just narrowly avoided being run over on a pedestrian crossing by a cyclist.