Large, I cannot add to what you haved just described, here we all are southern and northern hemispheres apart, the glares are exactly the same.
I sometimes do call-out work for a car yard ( pick up cars and deliver with owner of one car type of thing) and I use my bike to get to the car yard.
It's an "official" reason to use the bike.
I get all sorts and the worse time is during peak hour traffic morning or afternoon. Weekends seem more relaxed and I get all sorts of stares,glares,whispers and the occasional car loaUod of lads with a beer can thinking this is a big joke. To me it's not a complete joke, it's the way I travel and there is no other choice at this point in time
The kids, just WANT ONE OF THESE TO, type of look, but hey, it's not as easy as it looks and you still have the eye trick from car drivers with speed and distance. They see pedals and don't see the constant 20-30 kph approaching and may cause a misjudgment. It's the way it is and a level of compromise from our part is due, my compromise is to stay out of the way and I now don't go as fast as when I first started.
Croozes-4-No-Broozes is my motto.