In reply to pamph:
Changing very slowly, mind... We had a classic moment today - club chaingang, maybe 10 blokes in two lines on a wide main road, going through a village near Almscliff. I have a video camera on my bike with a GPS in it, so it captures not only pictures but speed as well.
You see us entering the village, past the 30mph sign, doing 28mph, and right in the middle of the village maybe half a mile later, with the speedo showing 29mph we're overtaken VERY close by a Merc, horn blaring, probably doing 20mph faster than we were.
I wonder how fast he'd have driven through the village had he not seen a bunch of cyclists in two lines ("that's illegal you know!!") in front of him?
But that was, in 50 miles of riding, 30 of them in a group, the only bad bit of behaviour we saw - so you're right - it's better than it was.
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