If only her stupid father had had some sense and put lights on his bike (and stopped selling heroin, coke and weed) she might have had a daddy still.

Hang on just a minute, now.

a) What is the connection between the dealer's choice of profession and his being knocked from his bicycle?

b) Any driver who doesn't see a cyclist until he's knocked the person over is driving too fast, matter a damn whether the cyclist has lights or not.

A little reality about the horse rider and the people on bicycles. She was riding on a road that was garlanded with notices saying there was a triathlon coming through at that time on that day. She should not have been there. Sure, the riders behaved badly and dangerously - the first through should have signalled the others to slow - but this is the nature of competition in our society; the devil take the hindmost.

As for all the codswallop of the last few postings, oh, honestly, stop it. I am a typical cyclist: elderly, creaky, getting my shopping on my bicycle. In the imagination of the tabloids and the radio jocks, "cyclists" have morphed into a kind of racist stereotype. And some people are stupid enough to be pulled in, in much the same way that some people are stupid enough to believe Fox News.

We're all sharing the road. Stop believing stereotypes because they give you permission to hate and sneer.