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Totally take your point, and it is troubling when I find myself jumping to these conclusions or hear others referring to 'chavs'.
If you see a kid from the local estate on a souped up Focus, it could be that he's well into cycling and saved up ages to buy it. However, it's depends on other things too. If he's weaving all over the place and his mates are riding a lady's shopper, a saddle-less HHSB and a Brompton you can't help but assume the worst.
So yeah... It doesn't take a genius to work out what's happened, although maybe that's the point (lazy assumptions). Innocent until proven guilty and all that...