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Always be patient around cyclists and give masses of room - hopefully it'll rub off on the car behind.
Aye sometimes it actually works too.
on A roads indicate left for motorbikes to let them know you see them and you are aware they are about to overtake. Do the same for faster traffic in general and thank people with a flash of the hazards who do the same for me.
On the motorway - actually drive in the correct lane and make space for traffic round about me when possible, for example pull over to lane 3 when you know someone else wants to overtake from lane 1 into lane 2. If I'm overtaking in lane 3 and faster traffic is approaching I might even speed up a little, except for tailgaters they can wait!
[i]hopefully it'll rub off on the car behind.[/i]
ah, I live with impossible dreams in my head too...
It does rub off a bit in my experience - if only because the car behind sees you overtaking "wide" (i.e. Rule 163) and blindly follows.
Of course after the fact the driver may well be thinking [i]"Why did he pull out so wide? There was nothing there. Just a cyclist. I thought there must be a parked car or something important."[/i]