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By far the worst (i.e. majority closest verging on dangerous) overtakes were from vehicles with NL number plates.
And Danish too, but that's mainly my fault when I decided to ride on the road in Copenhagen, cue some real dangerous maneuvers from several drivers doing punishment passes due to not expecting I to be on the road when there's a cycle path next to it (it was crowded, I don't wanna queue when there's a perfectly good road next to it), the local bus that jump onto the kerbs to push me onto the cycle path was the last straw.
Stopped 3 time by the Danish police and pled innocence (not really) by being a ruddy foreigner unaware that I should not be on the road, or attempt to ride onto the middle of the road to make a left turn (hence the Copenhagen Left).
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During LEL'09 and PBP'11 there were sections I got overtaken by a large number of foreign cars/motor-homes (support vehicles for other rides). Got plenty of room from the majority of cars with French and Spanish number plates. Italian number plates about the same as UK plates (50:50 between good and bad). By far the worst (i.e. majority closest verging on dangerous) overtakes were from vehicles with NL number plates. Maybe all that separation means they're not used to encountering cycles on the road and aren't used to passing them safely.
Anecdata of one thobut.