Matt Seaton describes the best way to deal with bad driving- choose your battles!
Matt Seaton: Two wheels The Guardian Guardian Unlimited: "if you don't go around looking for a fight, you generally don't find one. Accepting that it can be best to let inconsequential instances of other road users' stupidity or carelessness slide, rather than automatically getting revved up into confrontation mode, has definitely improved my quality of life."
A good cycling piece in the Independent, reporting on some research from Cycling England examining cycling's portrayal on UK television. The comments are just as valid for print media and radio.
It's high time television started to take cycling seriously... - Independent Online Edition > Features: "The more cycling is portrayed as an everyday activity for normal people - on television and throughout the media - the more likely it is that the rest of us will feel more comfortable riding. If driving is always shown to be the default mode of transport for Britons, it will continue to be so."
