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One quick thought: regarding speaking to trainees, I was recently thinking that a good way to approach the issue of 'poor manners' and worse from other road users in response to assertive riding might be to make an analogy to driving (especially if the trainee drives). If you are driving the speed limit in, for example, a 20 or 30 zone and a driver behind you becomes agitated or abusive, this is not an indication that you should have increased your level of risk or the risk to other road users (or broken the law, indeed) and the best response as a driver is to ignore the abusive driver, in my view. Interested to hear others' thoughts - and yes, sometimes I do drive! :)
Since assertive riding is a legal way to use a bike as a road vehicle, I feel analogies to how one would use another vehicle (car, scooter, motorcycle) are well worth exploring and often, in my experience, make a positive impression on trainees (especially if they take to roads in a vehicle other than a bike).