I agree with Paul, people just don't care about others anymore. A lot of people are just selfish, they want to get where they want to be and everyone else is in the way.
I don't mind proper cyclists who obey the highway code, I'm one of those, but I only use my bike when it isn't cold or raining (one day a year)
It's the chavs who ride off the paths without looking or with looking and not caring, ride on the wrong side of the road, in the dark, with dark clothing and no lights on bikes that look like they have just nicked them form a 4 year old, which they probably have and are using it as a getaway vehicle from some other crime, they are the ones that really annoy me. Drivers should be rewarded for taking them out of the gene pool. But when one of them does get hit they were a model student, everyone loved them, it's all the drivers fault, we must reduce the speed limit to 20 on that road 
I know that is a generalisation and some genuine kids do get hit by stupid drivers, like the driver of the Bifa wagon that tried to kill me last year. And don't even start me on the school kids on foot who cross the road regardless that a car is coming and then scowl at you for having the audacity to want to drive on the road. Where I work the college students are even worse, they will stand on the road at the gateway smoking and won't move for you. It's stange that on those occasions my winscreen always needs cleaning when I do get past them.
Rant over, for now
) and tractors (drive on the fields, thats why you have big tyres 
) but I notice that more and more drivers do not thank me. Fair enough, maybe you just want to make haste into the gap I created before some loon pulls into it. Whatever. The ones that REALLY hack me off are the 4x4 drivers who, on the near enough single track roads out my way, absolutely will not get on the verge. It's a friggin off-roader, FFS - and having near enough forced you off the road, just drive off. Ignorance of this level makes my blood boil...
