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I used to help with my local youth cycling club when my boys were younger and it used to scare the hell out of me sometimes. The disregard some drivers show towards cyclists is amplified many times when you are riding with kids.
Respect to you and everyone else who encourages children to ride bikes on roads. The sad thing is it shouldn't be a big deal but we are (on the whole) a nation of intolerant metal box dwellers.
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Coming up Copenhagen street today, me at the front, five 10 yr old kids behind me and another instructor at the back, taking up the space indicated by the black line, uphill , approaching a bend.. There's cars behind us and cars and a bus coming the other way. A driver decided to overtake and, surprise surprise, couldn't make it so ended up wedged between us and the oncoming traffic. At which point I saw there was a police car behind the bus, so I looked the coppers and pointed back at the stuck driver with a sort of wtf? expression. Looking back I saw that as they got to the idiot driver they stopped and wound down the window to have a word with him. God, that was sweet.
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