Road respect is better but online is another story
CYCLING WEEKLY|August 18, 2022
It only takes one person to utter the word cyclist before you have a comments section full of hatred.
ABBY MAE PARKINSON
Road respect is better but online is another story

It would seem that online bullying towards cyclists is on the rise. You only have to jump on Facebook to see some community group or forum posing a leading question on the lines of 'should cyclists have a number plate?' That inevitably leads to a tirade of comments accusing, blaming and finger pointing at cyclists being the root cause of every problem on the road.

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