and we responsible riders suffer.
I get equally upset about the actions of others who do their best to make a complete train wreck of the situation for those of us who use motorised bicycles in a responsible manner.
Ironically our governments are only too quick to jump on the band wagon of "hitting responsible riders" with draconian legislation, just because there is some mindless belief that legislation will stop irresponsible people from acting irresponsibly.
It's a bit like enacting legislation to ban guns to stop criminal violence. The "only" people who will surrender their guns (to stay within the law) are responsible law abiding citizens. leaving criminals to keep on doing business; making their life even easier as they can go about kicking in doors and ransacking homes, knowing that they won't be seeing the pointy end of a set of double barrels.
The other thing that doesn't marry up is the concept of draconian legislation being enacted to save only "one life", because if you save only one life, and make life a misery for everyone else, then the legislation was worth it.
I have never been able to grasp this concept when the government (of the country you live in) drafts legislation allowing the military to engage in an empire building exercise of another country with predictable loses in human life; from the soldiers to the (so called) combatants, to the civilians killed in the crossfire.
Draconian legislation to save just one life, without the consent of the greater populace, yet with equal enthusiasm they draft legislation to kill the lives of hundreds if not thousands of others; also without the consent of the greater populace.
As George Carlin so famously said: i don't believe anything our government tells us!