My tombstone would read: "obeyed all traffic rules and acted like everyone else would do the same".

Lmao tell me you've never experienced cycling in any capacity outside a park or parking lot without telling me.

Give me a fucking bike lane or shut the fuck up, I've been literally forced off the road every single year I've been cycling since 15, I have been hit by cars more times than I can count, I have been hit with things thrown by cars, I have been hit by city busses, semis, and even fucking cops.

I wear hi vis clothing, my bike has lights front back and sides, at least one constant and one flashing in each direction. I leave 3ft between me and anything to my right, and am as far to the right as I can be without ILLEGALLY riding on the sidewalk

Where in the ABSOLUTE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO GO

There is idiot drivers. There are idiot cyclists. There are idiot pedestrians. People are idiots.

Also drivers: "Uh, taking over cyclists with two centimeters between us will show them to better use bike lanes next time, even where none exist!"

Meanwhile pedestrians: "He, why is the sidewalk split into a red and a grey area? Is this a two-way-walkway?"

You clearly never cycled in Amsterdam, with suicidal tourists throwing themselves in front of you.

You clearly never seen sports cyclists thinking everyone will move away for them, while they throw themselves in front of cars, normal cyclists and lorries and get angry when someone with right of way doesn't stop for them.