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@Grubbythumb
It appears I am both them and us.
As a motorist covering over 35,000 business miles a year, Id say that most other road users are generally OK, but there are a percentage, both male in stereotypical big Audi / BMW / MERC / Range Rover, who consider themselves special and above the law, (why else would they hold a mobile phone to their ear in a £50k car with bluetooth as standard) and there are many female drivers, usually young and always in a small hatch / BMW 1 series / Audi 1 series who drive way too fast and have no idea of the risks they are running. Then of course there are the elderly with generally poor eyesight and frighteningly slow reactions who consider themselves excellent drivers and who are affronted by any comment / indication to the contrary, and lastly the arrogant couldn't give a stuff guys driving white vans, 7.5 tonne lorries, scaffold trucks etc, who really don't care who they hit, injure or upset and who revel in intimidating other road users.
I consider these all to be a danger to me and to one another.
As a cyclist.... ^^^ this ^^^