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Originally Posted by volvoid
Why do so many motorists get such a big kick out of criticising cyclists ?
Have they never ridden a bike ?
Are they fault- and blame- free at all times ?
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Or another way to look at it could be this. Why do so many cyclists started blaming 'the motorist' for everything without even considering the possibility that we all (motorist, cyclist, pedestrian, human) make mistakes?
It should never be a question of who's right, or 'us vs them'. At the end of the day 'motorist' and 'cyclist' are not terms that define who we are, they define what we're doing at a particular time. I, like many, am sometimes a motorist and sometimes a cyclist, and sometimes I walk so then I'm a pedestrian. Sometimes I load my bike into my car so that I become a motorist for the purpose of becoming a cyclist
This debate comes up a lot, and it always descends into a motorist vs cyclist riot. Meanwhile cyclists are still getting killed and instead of considering how and why, and how to reduce the risk of it happening to someone else, it turns into a game of apportioning blame to one or other entire group of people.