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@jimmy8ball
Ride how you want. If you want to be a good cyclist, be one. If you want to ride like a dick, do so. You're probably not going to get recognition for either. Riding well doesn't guarantee you stay alive and have an incident free lifetime in the saddle, just as riding like a twat doesn't guarantee you come to a nasty end or have a narrow escape that teaches you the error of your ways. There is no justice here.
I carry on my own way, just getting from A to B, hopefully in one piece and without causing an incident for someone else. I hold my tongue when someone pulls a dick move because they probably won't be receptive to my observation. I get cut up, undertaken and barged and I just get on with it.
If you ride well, you will have my silent respect as a conscientious road user. And I hope that other people feel the same about me. That for me is enough to make me feel like there are people making a difference even in the face of the 'the wobbling impatient hordes'.
Would it help if I was more vocal in my respect? Maybe we should call out good riders?