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One of my college mates used to always get pulled over by the police for speeding!

OMG!! how can they expect you to guage your speed when speedometers are not compulsary and frankly quite rare on a bike?
I'll bet this was while another Cyclist was running a red light in the background and cars where doing over 40mph in 30mph zones nearby (Bloody Police 'shakes fist' )

I wont cycle to work anymore, hehe I sweat too much due to how steep the hills are going to work and since I work in a shop and our Staff shower has just been removed I dont fancy spending half my shift with a big sweat patch down my back.

I instead ride my 100cc Scooter, and the way how a lot of drivers behave towards me makes me sick, do these people who tail gate me less than a meter behind think that if I have to slam on my brakes for an emergancy stop they will be able to stop before me? (Car braking distance is 4x that of a light bike like a scooter Apparently, and this increases rapidly over 30mph).

so far I have been lucky and the situation hasnt come up but I have a friend who lost his bike in the same way, he nearly run a red light and realised just as he was about 2 meters away from it, he slamed his brakes and stoped about 3 meters over the line, it was quiet on the road with no cars going in any other direction (about 11:30pm) yet the car behind him still managed to hit him and knock him off his bike destroying the rear wheel, the driver behind had been trying to overtake my friend for the best part of a mile even though my friend was aparently going about 5mph over the local speed limit and was that fixated on over taking the bike he had missed the red light all together and had bareley hit the brakes when he clipped my friend at a fair speed (It was lucky for my friend the driver only caught the side of his back wheel instead of going straight into the back of him or things may have been much worse).

one of my worst near accidents was driving to work, I was driving down a 40mph road comfortably doing 40mph down a 4 lane road (2 in either direction) when a taxi decided to pull out blocking both lanes and forcing me to emergancy stop, my bike finally came to a hault so close to his car that I could have ripped his wing mirror off (Felt like it too I was so angry but he realised, appologised and reversed back out of my way (I think he had honestly not seen me) drivers like this I can understand, its the ones who go mad at you in the same situation that I dont understand.

Another incedent was when I was driving home from work, on the same road as before but on a different part. The road briefly joins into 2 lanes (1 each way) due to there being a bus lane plus there is a sainsburys there, just after you get past sainsburys the road splits back into two lanes.
Now taking all this onboard I was driving at about 30mph - 35mph (On the 30mph part of the road) when I could hear an loud car engine sound coming up fast behind me (I dont know 100% but it sounded like he was doing about 60mph and judging by the speed he caught up with me Id say that was about right), there are a set of lights before the road joins into 1 with the left lane being left turn only (Sainsburys) and the right lane for straight on (Into the 1 lane of traffic), as we got to the lights I was in the right lane and he was in left (Not indicating to go left).
I could hear him reving his engine as we waited for the lights to change and I looked at his car, Peugot 406 with 5 people in the car (The male driver (probably the father) 1 woman and 3 kids) and me alone on a 100cc scooter, I thought he doesnt stand a chance even if I dont pull down hard on the throttle and I was sure he intended to cut me off into the single lane even though he shouldnt be going straight on due to the lane he was in.
Sure enough as the lights went green he shot off, I could hear his engine screaming (He really wanted to get into the lane infront of me) but even with my throttle open about 3/4 of the way he couldnt keep up with my acceleration (He could wipe me out once we had started but Acceleration belonged to me), I noticed in my mirrors he violently and quite quickly swirved into the lane behind me.
about 300 yards down the road it splits back into 2 lanes again and I wanted to be in the left lane (needed to be there anyway but I wanted to get out of this madmans way) so I indicated to move over into the left lane and as I started to turn he squeezed his car through the smallest Gap possible and cut me off into the Left lane, clipping my arm on his mirror as I was already over the line, the only reason he didnt take me off my bike was because I was aware he was behaving like a psycho and moved over very cautiously.

To sum all that up a lot of drivers seem to have a supperiority complex over bikes Especially Scooters and Pushbikes.

Im hoping to start car driving lessons in the new year so I hope to gain some perspective from the other side of the fence, but at the moment I have seen a few dangerous Motorcycle & pushbike drivers but none of thier mistakes compare to the things I have seen a lot of car drivers doing.