On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 23:06:29 +0100, Peter Parry
wrote:

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 21:04:59 +0100, Bertie Wooster
wrote:

The cyclist, on the other hand, didn't appear to experience any delay
whatsoever, and sailed past a queue of fuming cars and their drivers
and passengers.

There was extensive discussion recently in a national paper about the
danger caused by cyclists overtaking horses and how best it could be
done (shouting, blowing horns, ringing bells etc). Despite their
enthusiasm for impeding other road users by "taking the lane" (In the
interests of safety of course) not a single cyclist suggested that
cyclists should wait behind the horse and rider until it was safe to
pass.

Presumably because waiting behind until it is safe to pass is assumed
as a given.

Waiting until it is dangerous to pass, and then overtaking, is simply
daft.

Did the article indicate the scale of the problem, i.e. how many
equestrians are killed as a result of dangerous overtaking by cyclists
each year.