Rhubarb wrote:

It seems you take out a major aterial road in Melbourne and it puts the
entire city into a gridlock.

Makes for a nice ride in on the pushy. More major arterial blockages
please!

Maybe one or two of the sheep in cars saw a bike riding past and
thought "wow, I wonder if I could do that?"

Nah .. they'd just turn the stereo up louder and whinge about traffic
and petrol prices!