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what has been said...cyclists please follow all the rules. Decide whether you're a car or a pedestrian and stick to it.
In Portugal you get cyclists but I haven't really come across any who don't do the single-file thing. Portugal is pretty dangerous as far as driving is concerned.
I admit to getting annoyed when the road is extra-busy and a cyclist is making it slower...mainly because you don't really see people commuting on bikes exactly, they generally cycle for leisure only here. I suppose that's because our roads are extra narrow (an American friend of mine used to say the roads here are crazy). Now add to that the fact that on some of these extra tight roads people still think okay let's make a bike lane here and your car no longer even fits in a lane, well that leads to many problems with cyclists.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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