Bicycles in the city

Cyclists...bloody cyclists.

This is evolving to be a new swear word for XXIst century. I have nothing against cycling in general, used to do it a lot until I burst my knee, but cyclists in the city are like a plague of itch . Annoying, rude, don't want to disappear. 

Just today I have witnessed a cyclist who couldn't kept steady when looking around and he still kept looking back and almost swerved into the side of the bus, another one who decided to continue straight on to the pavement when the light turned red, without indicating or slowing down and one that jumped the red light at a busy intersection. Add to this the usual ones who block the buses because they can't get their gears right and although they pedal very fast they are not going very fast at all, the ones that go across the road with the pedestrians but don't get off their bikes and the ones that actually collide with cars because of doing any/all of the above.

Next council elections, I swear I will vote for anyone who will ban cycling in the city centre, or at least put the bikes in the car lane so when they block the entire lane for twenty minutes only a dozen people will be late for work, not three busfuls.

By the way, is cycling like a new mid life crisis thing?

Based on ongoing observation, 90% of city cyclists are middle aged guys in ugly yellow vests and even uglier hard hats and even worse, clad in at least token amount of lycra... going to work on a bike in the vain hope that it will balance the life of too much coffee, cake and sitting at the desk at work, possibly?

Cyclists...bloody cyclists.