The hatred towards cyclists/horse riders etc

Also if you hate one group of people doing an activity because it mildly inconveniences you, or insist that the road is only for cars, I would argue it is you who's arrogant, not cyclists

Not unless it's mandated and funded

Yes I think all road users should have a minimum of 3rd party insurance.
I do for my horses both in their own right and myself as a rider.
My dogs are insured which also covers any damage they could ever do.
I am insured for all the vehicles I drive

And your right you are far more likely to be injured as a cyclist than a car driver in the even of a collision so why wouldn’t you insure yourself in case you are the one at fault.
in the last 12 months I have witnessed 3 incidents where the cyclist was at least in part responsible for an accident occurring. I have attended court in the past year to defend a driver who was accused of being at fault in an accident. CCTV and dash cam footage proved the driver completely innocent and the cyclist fully responsible.

The enforceable rules for motorists are all to frequently ignored. Mobile devices, speeding, MOT, vehicle registration/insurance, parking offences, dangerous driving, driving whilst intoxicated/drugged, driver without a license. I can open any newspaper or do a Google search anytime and I'll find reports of all those offences and more.

And if you ride in the grazing fields you wreck the fields 🙄
All fields are privately owned so it's trespassing if you ride on one without permission.

You are completely and willingly ignorant

London cyclists are anti-social scum. Aggressive, violent, weird.

Exceptions as always exist, but on the whole they’re riding into paid licensing, ID and increased prosecution. Should have happened already.

YANBU at all, @RH1234. It's utterly depressing how many drivers are willing to endanger the lives of others in order to shave a minute off their arrival time, if that.

The few cycle lanes (near me, at least) are frequently poorly maintained, overhung by branches and littered with thorns. Then they join a road at a horrible position and vanish. You're safer on the road from the start.

I love cycling as a mode of transport and a spectator sport, and I wish more of my fellow drivers would exercise a bit of caution. Vitriolic comments aimed at other road users don't help anyone. We're all people, let's try and keep each other alive.

The Tour of Britain (men's race) is happening in early September: I, DH, and our daughters will be going to cheer on our favourite teams and hopefully see some of our favourite riders. We went to cheer on the roadside last year and had such a fun time among other cycling fans.

I would highly recommend a helmet camera. I have a Techalogic mainly for horse riding & occasional cycling.

Also operation Snap/nextbase dash cam portal (called different things in different police force areas)

Submit all unsafe passes & other careless, dangerous & inconsiderate behaviour.

About 8 in 10 of my submissions result in positive action from police (warning letter, course, points, fine, court)

They can raise their silly arguments condoning dangerous behaviour with the police & courts.

I've recently started cycling more and the way car drivers treat cyclists is literally insane

Overtaking on blind corners, near head on collisions. Overtaking with a tiny gap I.e not even pulling over across the line. It's really opened my eyes to how dangerous and impatient a large proportion of drivers are. And I understand a bit more why cyclists can get irate

Generally the cyclists and horse riders round me are fine, I see very little poor behaviour. And I don't see how you can say someone who you don't interact with, barely see the face of is arrogant.

Our planet is burning, half our country is overweight. People still take their cars for 3-4 mile commutes, and we criticise people getting outside, doing excercise. Cycling is good for you and good for the planet and I don't think its fair to criticise that or make it harder for people

Well who would have thought a car would cause you more serious harm than a push bike.

That's just life 🤷‍♀️ most will simply see a cyclist ahead and think oh no a cyclist, oh no im going to get held up. A bit of frustration nothing more. Anyone who gets angry at you is likely an angry driver in general and would get annoyed at other road users. Dont take it that they hate you personally!

Go to a velo. The local road is not a bloody race track

Some cycle paths use pedestrian crossings - many of the ones near me do.

I don't hate either group.

I used to ride horses so I know what it's like when car drivers get uncomfortably close to the rear of the horse or too close to the side of the horse when they drive past. They seem unaware of how dangerous a horse can be when it spooks or kicks. On one occasion I lost my cool with an idiot - who was repeatedly revving his engine at the rear of my horse as we crossed a narrow bridge wide enough for one horse or one car but not both - that unless he wanted an imprint of my horse's substantial arse on his bonnet, he should back off. He did.

I drive carefully around horse riders, cyclists and motor cyclists because all are vulnerable to substantial injuries, or even death, if hit by a car.

I think what you've encountered is a minority of idiotic, entitled drivers who think they own the roads. They behave that way with everyone including other drivers. I'd try not to take it personally.

You are being ridiculous - safety measures are sensible but insurance? Are you also going to require pedestrians to have insurance? Or how old does a child need to be before they need insurance to ride their bike to their friends house?

There aren’t as many bad cyclists as there are bad car drivers. You are far more likely to have a serious accident involving a car than a cyclist.

I’ve ridden, ran and cycled on the roads and I definitely feel most vulnerable on a bike.

What I don’t really understand is why anyone thinks it’s ok to intimidate and compromise the safety of another road user on the basis they don’t think they should be there. How is that ok? They might not like it, or agree with it, but that doesn’t mean you can just run people off the road or whatever!

Your starting to sound a bit nuts. Why would someone hate you personally when they dont know you. People will get annoyed at something in general, not you specifically unless you do something wrong.

You could drive your car on a motorway though - horse riders & cyclists aren't allowed there.

Everyone has somewhere they need to be.

Cyclists, horse riders, carriage drivers & pedestrians have the right to be on the roads - all other users are only there under the terms of their license (which includes observing the highway code)

@twistyizzy not always. Some horses simply aren't safe to be on the road. I was thankfully well back from a couple of riders recently. This was despite the road being very quiet. A van emerged from a driveway between high hedges and the rider had no control of the horse as it shot sideways and bucked and half reared across the road.. If I'd been passing it at that point (as I could have) there would have been an accident,. I'd kept well back as I could see the rider wasn't great,, her only ability seemed to be to clingy on. I grew up in the countryside and know how to take care around horses but she should not have had that horse on a B road with a 60 mph speed limit. .

In my experience pedestrians, horse riders and slow moving farm vehicles all do their best to pull out of the way of cars as soon as is safe to do so. the vast majority of cyclists do not. Indeed many seem to take great pleasure in holding cars up for as long as possible.

All those people saying that horses should be on the bridleways, horse riders wholeheartedly agree with you.

You can help by supporting the British Horse Society’s campaign. Thanks!!
https://www.bhs.org.uk/support-us/our-campaigns/project-2026/

Why do you feel you are more entitled to use the road? Yes you have equipment but some cyclists also have to commute and carry stuff (I have a pannier with my laptop and lunch) so just because you also have to get to work why should you take priority?

In fact it would make your life easier if more people cycled as it would free up the road space for your ‘essential’ journey.

Again it all centres around perceived entitlement.

I assume it is lack of patience or (in the case of horses) awareness of what 700kg of flight animal landing on your car would do.

I drive and ride horses on the road to get to bridleways. If there are cars behind me I let them past if at all possible. Most motorists are fine, butbsome Darwin Award nominees seem to think speeding past on a narrow lane is fine despite the Highway Code stating that 2m clearance and a max speed of 10mph is required when passing horses.