Cyclists need strong nerves on our roads

SO Melissa O’Neill (Letters, July 10) thinks L-drivers have a hard time. I suggest she take up cycling for a while and then she’ll really know what it means to be second class.

Try being passed too close by an articulated lorry on a bend with a deep gutter along the hard shoulder.

As the hard shoulder runs out, and there is a slip lane joining the road ahead, you have to keep looking over your left shoulder while not wobbling to the right.