This morning's commute and other commuting stories

To take your post more seriously (drawn in to the trolling)

Cycling safely is not difficult. A little common sense and some awareness, even without training, and you will be a perfectly competent cyclist. I refuse to excuse people cycling "in a way that causes them and others around them danger" on grounds of experience. You wouldn't give motorists that excuse.

If a pellet swerves in to me, they can cause an extremely serious, if not a fatal, collision. In this sense, my personal thoughts are quite the opposite to 'the more the merrier'. Shit cyclists endanger me, get in my way and generally frustrate me far more than drivers. I know I'm going to have to put up with them, for the good of increased spending on infrastructure, road user awareness and for buying nice shit second hand, but barring those (admittedly decent) benefits, I would rather everyone gave it up bar my immediate cycling compatriots.

I approve, in an abstract way, of more people choosing healthier and greener ways of travelling. However, I just wish they would take it up far, far away from me.

Is this a shitty, selfish, solipsistic way of thinking about commuters? Yes.
Am I a snob? Probably, yes
Will I continue to dislike everyone on the road bar me? Also yes.