Quintin Jardine's blog

There is a degree of truth in this satirical piece from the Daily Mash.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/cyclists-to-create-bike%11themed-superstate-201105123805/

I’m as green as the next bloke. I don’t have a bike, but my son and step-son do and they use them responsibly; keeps them fit, and get them from place to place. Cycling is good.

But try being a motorist in East Lothian, or, I suspect in many another rural community that happens to be close to a cycling club. See how you feel on any given weekend, when you find yourself, as my neighbours and I often do, driving behind thirty or forty of the buggers, in convoy on a single carriageway main road, showing not the slightest consideration for other road users, be they private motorists or public service bus drivers struggling to keep to timetable. The Highway Code says that cyclists should never ride more than two abreast, and in single file on busy roads. Our lot don’t bother with that; they’re  quite happy to block the road all the way to North Berwick, like a very slow version of the Tour de France peloton. They are a menace and action needs to be taken to make them behave responsibly.