The cyclist vs motorist debate is fine until they both try to occupy the same physical space. That's where 4-wheels trumps 2-wheels. I live in a rural area of England where the shoulders of the roads are bordered by hedgerows. If I'm doing the legal 30 mph, and a cyclist (unseen by me) on a curve ahead is doing 10 mph, I will overtake them and find myself on top of them. Too bad, so sad. There is no where in England where one can cycle safely, and if a cyclist is slowing traffic down to 10 mph, they have to expect to have horns sounded at them at the very least. There were 128,000 cyclist-involved accidents in Britain last year; this pretty much shows that cycling on the public roads is a high-risk endeavour.