Of course you're right. But it's not being different that gives bikes such terrible PR. Motorcycles and big rig trucks annoy a lot of drivers, but they don't make spit fly from the corners of peoples' mouths while they leave angry comments on news sites, and bike inspire a lot of this.

I guarantee that if bikes were known for regularly exceeding the speed limit, we wouldn't have a PR problem. Motorcycles are less annoying than bikes, because they're less in the way ... getting behind one isn't a "death sentence" that will cost you several minutes. Scofflaws don't hate us because they think we're scofflaws; this all comes down to a conflict of interest, where drivers and cyclists both want the same space on (mostly) the same roads, but want to use it a different speeds.

Stopping at red lights to appease other scofflaws with your law-abidingness doesn't actually solve the problem of being in their way and going too slowly for their taste.