Out last night, it was about 10pm we & stopped for a second at the top of an urban hill, not at a pinch point or anything. I was on the pavement & my mate at the curb when a random bloke in a golf punched my mate on the shoulder as they went past. Completely unprovoked, mate said he hadn’t seen anyone pissed off with his riding or anything.
Absolutely awful, we were raging. I’ve heard of cyclists receiving random violence before but never experienced it first hand.
Put a bit of a downer on us for a bit and we both got a bit paranoid, looking to see every car that passed us if we’d get hit or something thrown at us. Didn’t stop us enjoying the ride though, we turned off down the canal soon after and ended up doing 30 miles.
Why would someone do that? There are some proper A holes about.