The BBC has a problem with cyclists, and it doesn't want to talk about it

Over just a few weeks three separate BBC shows asked if cyclists should be banned or registered. Why is the corporation so anti-cycling?

I've taken the BBC to task more than once over its coverage of cycling, most notably, the woeful and misleading War on Britain's Roads documentary. I'm about to do so again.

This isn't BBC bashing. I've got no desire to, in my own minuscule way, add to the pummelling currently faced by the corporation. So why pick apart its sometimes lamentable treatment of everyday cycling? There are a few reasons.