A lot of cyclists are like that bloke. People don't notice cyclists who obey the Highway Code because we're not getting in their way. It's the idiots who break it who are most visible. As a regular cyclist, I see far more cyclists on the road than on the pavement (99:1 at most) and far more waiting in the ASL with me rather than swanning through a red light (probably 80:20). But it's the moron minority on the pavement and those going through lights that are most visible and give the rest of us a bad name. And cyclists seem to earn vitriol well out of proportion to any actual injury caused in part thanks to those idiots.

The police do set up sting operations to catch pavement cyclists and RLJ with fines particularly in the City and along the CS. I don't object to that in the slightest (aside from perhaps they'd be as vigilant in policing the ASLs) but while my comment on cars was intended to be slightly tongue-in-cheek, the logistics and costs of trying to license bicycles/cyclists so far outweighed the benefits.