Frankly, any kind of person who would draft closely behind another cyclist on a public path or roadway without that cyclist's consent is not the kind of person we should be encouraging to take up bicycling. It's not a matter of being a beginner, amateur or whatever, or an elitist, it's a matter of common sense. There are way too many people who don't have any.

It would greatly pain me to have to put a license tag on my bicycle as used to be required, but I think the whole bicycling situation is inevitably leading to that. It's the only way to deal with all these cycling anarchists and boneheads we have to put up with, without being able in any way to have recourse to the law. Take your accident as an example. You can report it to the police, but how do you identify the numbskull anyway?