David Hansen gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying:

There seems to be a small minority of cyclists who are so arrogant that
they think that they do not need to stop for anything, ever. They give
the vast majority of safe, courteous cyclists a bad name.

One could say the same thing about any other group of road users.
However, it is usually cyclists who are lumped together by those with no
better arguments.

Odd. I thought it was usually those in cars lumped together by many of
the denizens of uk.rec.cycling and some of the cycling denizens of
uk.transport.