As a teenager I rode a bike regularly and it gave me a real sense of freedom. I used to go youth hostelling in the school holidays with a couple of friends and we cycled all over the south of the UK and Ireland. Hence I have some empathy with cyclists. However the Lycra clad crowd that I witness these days with their aggressive riding is different and quite antagonistic. The thing that gets me the most is the fact that here in rural west Wales we have miles and miles of expensively built, dedicated cycle tracks (I mean separate tracks, not just a dotted white line along the edge of the roads) which I would have loved to use as a kid, yet I regularly see cyclists cycling on the narrow main roads holding up lines of traffic and ignoring the cycle tracks which are just inches away! What is that all about?