It's interesting to me, but this just doesn't happen in the UK. EVERYONE knows that it's legal to ride a bike on the road. Also, there's less of this aggression. Not that people don't pass too close, or you don't get the occasional chav moron shout something at you out the window of his boyed-up Fiesta, or once even throw a McDonalds coke, but telling you to get off the road? Trying to hit you? Jumping out and getting threatening? Just doesn't happen. Maybe it's my size (I'm 6'3 and 240 pounds), but whatever, it surely does not encourage me to move the the Land of the Freetoshoutateveryoneandwaveguns!