I imagine your 1.6 litre Golf can go just as fast as my 1.6 litre Ford Focus. 110 mph not impossible. You car weighs over a tonne and was made using precious and dwindling resources at great cost to the environment, and that cost continues as it chugs around the country polluting the air with toxic gases and particles and giving off vast quantities of carbon dioxide, and its eventual disposal causes even more problems. A good bike weighs about 12 kilos, gives off no pollution and will last longer than your car. I'm not seeing things in black and white here, just protesting about the posts here that seem to imply that cyclists are evil beings who simply must get out of the bloody way, the bastards. It's my conjecture that bad cyclists who show aggression have been created by even worse, even more aggressive motorists. My main cycling years were from the mid-80s to the mid-90s and I cycled all over London and all over the Westcountry almost every day, thousands of miles a year, and I didn't meet this aggression. It's a relatively new phenomenon, and it seems to me that motorists are using the very glimpse of Lycra and helmets to both trigger and justify their prejudices. They should be more humble. Motorists are a big part of environmental problems whereas cyclists are not. That's quite a big thing.