[Closed] Bottle of coke thrown at me whilst cycling!

report it to the police, driver did the same to me, got a call from reception at work about a week later. Police had turned up to let me know that they couldn't do anything about the incident as i couldn't identify the driver, BUT they had seen the van and pulled him for speeding instead, he was doing 54 in a 50.

Doesn't solve the problem but it did make me feel a little better.

On a different occasion i complained to a headmaster after his pupils through something at me from a minibus, he couldn't give a s**t!!!

One summer we cycled from a severly delayed cross-channel ferry into Poole to Christchurch, passing along Bournemouth sea front at around two in the morning. There was me, my girlfriend, our eleven year old all on bikes and our four year old safely tucked away inside his Chariot trailer. The fact that we were a family with young children didn't stop Bournemouth's clubbers from lobbing beer bottles at us, at least one of which was filled with piss. Later on, some of the youth of Christchurch welcomed us into town by skidding up alongside us in their car and shouting 'w@nkers' at us. That, incidently was the last time my GF agreed to us all going on a family cycling holiday. (Mind you, it did p1ss it down for the best part of a month in Brittany so that could've been another factor in her decision making).

my 'favourite' was the McDonalds milkshake I had lobbed at me...

definately report it to the police,
he (maybe she) may have been reported before.

Don't let it put you off the road. Something seems to happen every couple of years with me - I'm probably due one...

I had a bad of chips thrown at me once, half way up a very long climb, imagine the supprise on thier faces as i caught them half a mile later as the road was blocked due to a serious road accident 👿

What a waste of perfectly good drink/food 🙁

Report it to the police, one of my mates did so when he had a bottle thrown at him and the chap ended u pin jail I belive

Lack of respect in todays society - bring back birching, National Servive & floggings...

Had an over ripe banana throw at me.

Oh and the Mrs had someone lean out the car window and shove her off resulting in a large hole in her elbow.

A real man he was one.

Pftt, having food thrown at you...

...try having half a brick fly less than a foot past your shoulder & in front of your face as you cycle down the road....

I had a full can of Coke thrown at me once as I tried to escape from a van that was chasing me. He'd cut us up earlier (me and a mate), I'd hammered on the side of the van then managed to get away and into a park while he was stopped at a zebra crossing. He followed me into the park and I just made it to the pedestrianised area when he caught me up and threw the can. It hit me on the leg.

Doing the Dunwich Dynamo a couple of years ago we had bottles and a stone chucked at us from chavs in passing Escorts. None actually hit any of us but there were a couple of very near misses. Revenge was had by laughing at one group of chavs who'd misjudged a corner and rolled their Escort into a ditch. 🙂

Mid afternoon, riding in the little streets parallel to Oxford Street, two herberts were walking up the middle of the road eating fish and chips. I give 'em a shout, ride around them and then matey no1 legs it after me and lobs his lunch at my head. He was giggling and really pleased with himself and then he realised that he'd just thrown his lunch away. You could see the thought process happening in slow motion. It would have been funnier if my helmet hadn't smelt of vinegar for days after.

Go for the double whammy. Report to the police for assault and also that new Quango set up for people who see litter louts dropping stuff from their cars.

My shoulders actually swollen quite a lot now. i guess .5kg lump thrown from a van doing 50mph does quite a bif of damage. Definitely paying a visit to the police tomorrow, not that i expect much to happen.

I really think its useless going to the police for these sort of things. You need to carry something like this with you on the bike instead.

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Think you could fit that into a camalbak mule?

One time when I was cycling along the canal path between Camden and The Angel some kids (don't think they were called chavs in the mid 1990s) dropped a large plastic bag full of water down onto my head. I didn't realise what was happening at first. I just felt a massive smack on my head and a sudden rush of liquid all over my body. Initially I lost control of the bike, but as the water dispersed and the empty bag flopped down onto my handlebars I managed to keep the bike on the tow path.

As my GF and her friend were laughing and the kids were ten feet above me on top of a wall there wasn't much I could do without adding to my humiliation. So I reflected on how lucky I was that I didn't end up with a broken neck or in the canal.

Hell, and I thought the moron in an A6 1.8l saloon who rev'd passed me today was a nuisance. Guys, a rocket launcher needed.

Yeah, I'm sure many people who regularly ride on the road can produce a number of examples like this. It's frigging diabolical IMO. I've had a number of things thrown at me, including drinks cans. I've also had some stinging liquid sprayed in my face, smelt like anti-freeze, all completely un-provoked attacks. I'd contact the police if I were you and have the number, it's assault plain and simple, but the best you can hope for is that they just have a talk with them.

I've chased down most people who've done this to me, I've caught some of them and have gobbed into their car, screamed through their open window, dealt out a couple of kicks to the car door. None of these things made me feel better. They're animals and reverting to these measures just drops yourself to their level.

had an egg hit me once while cycling near finsbury park, never even figured what car it came from

Once, a couple of years ago I was riding through a village when i was called a ****ing w@nker by a bunch of youths, to my amazement (i'm normally quite tranquil) i stopped and threatened them - there were about 6 or 7 of them. they said they said nothing which woulnd me up a bit so i crossed the road and surprise, surprise, they scarped.

Bunch of narrow minded morons. They are. OP, hope your arms ok soon enough, don't let the cretards stop you biking.

Same thing happened to me a couple of weeks back. Car full of chavs went passed and I got cracked in the side by a can of coke coupled with the passenger leaning out the window calling me a "****ing useless c**t". How I wish I had a grenade to throw back.

Couple of days prior to that I recieved a load of abuse from some fat **** in a Range Rover. Sadly I couldnt think of a better retort so all I came out with was "**** off back to burger king you fat sack of shit"...really should work on some better ones.

never had anything thrown at me on my commute or any road miles ...well apart from abuse that is
Dont let it put you off and report them

I'm just about to start commuting this week and treated myself to a nice fat Kryptonite lock today, guess there might be a few smashed car widows/chavs faces in my area coming up

reminds me of the time i went jogging, some ginger ****t in the passenger seat of a corsa shouts "Fat something or other" out if his pals mums Corsa, i shouted "c'mon then ginger" Car screeches to a halt, the fat porker gets out and faces up to me a good twenty feet away, refusing to come any closer, so i shouted at him to get back in the car with his girlfriend and **** off......i wasn't happy that i resorted to their level but the red mist came down

now something like this in their rear view mirror would b justice

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it's not a great solution but it would be nice to see the little ****ers pi55 themselves in front of their gorless mates

never had anything thrown at me on my commute or any road miles ...well apart from abuse that is
Dont let it put you off and report them

Me neither, although I'm a big chap (not all fat ya know) maybe that puts them off.

Sadly I couldnt think of a better retort so all I came out with was "**** off back to burger king you fat sack of shit"...really should work on some better ones.

Don't be too hard on yourself, I think that's quite a good one.

I've never had anything thrown at me in my life, I wonder what's gonna happen next time I'm out on the road...

i've never had it commuting. I reckon its because they just can't drive off due to all the traffic etc.. Its always when the roads are quiet and theres no traffic lights.

Don't be too hard on yourself, I think that's quite a good one.

He's right. a good retort IMO.

I had a group of lads jeer at me in a citreon saxo, nothing malicious just being prats, caught them at lights so I asked the driver if his mum knew he had borrowed her car.

Amused me at the time.

This sort of stuff is all too common. You can't stop people being cocks!!
Reporting to the police is just a waste of yours & their time (imo)
I've just come back from the Lakes.. did some road miles & had some blokes in a 4x4 chuck rubbish at me. Nothing too nasty, just fag packets etc. They must've been well pleased with themselves, picking on the lone skinny roadie 🙄

Anyone fantacise about an ideal response? Mine would be to catch up to the Citroen Saxo/Vauxhall Corsa etc at the next lights hop off grab the sill and turn the ****er on its side....... I so really want to do that!

{correction} I so really want to be strong enough to do that!

Had a glass thrown at me once by a ped. He ran off.

As for car drivers, I keep meaning to carry a swiss army knife. Slash a couple of tyres.....you're a marked man afterwards though!

My mate once snot-rocketed onto my shoes on a ride. So I shoved him into a bush.

Same happened to me with a glass bottle of stella, it hurt.

Had a can of coke thrown at us (on a group ride) once. Missed me, but hit my mate on the back.

Last Summer on an evening ride just coming back into town some passenger in an on-coming chavved-up Nova took the sweet he was eating out of his mouth and lob it at me. Hit me square on the bicep. I was doing c.25mph, car was doing c.35mph... dunno how fast the sweet was travelling. Stang a tad, that one.

I've also been spat at by a passing car.

Mate was pushed off his bike into a ditch couple of years ago by passing chavs. Police could do little more than shrug without a reg no.

Another mate had his arse slapped by a passing car. How he stayed upright I'll never know.

Lost count of the times I've been heckled while riding. Nowadays if I'm solo I tend to ride with an iPod so I can't hear all the abuse... otherwise one day I *will* get into a fight. And I'm a lover, not a fighter :O)

If you like I can regale you with what could possibly be considered succesful relatiations......

Sat at the lights in the cycling green zone, guy pulls up alongside me, I tell him (nicely) that this part is for bikes, he gobs at me, spit goes straight through my frame, misses my leg by millimetres. I've just done a big climb and my mouth is filled with flem. I whooey a massive one through his window onto his passenger seat. Bloke in the car on the other side of me cheers and shouts stuff at the driver.

Guys throw a bag of rubbish out the window at me and shout stuff at the lights as they jump the red. I grab the bag and chase them down, I catch them at the next set of lights and throw the bag through the window, 'you dropped this', murmurs but no real response.

(my favourite)
Guys scream out of their window at me as they pass, scares the crap out of me. I catch them in a traffic queue later on but sneak up on their car, dart forwards, stick my head right inside the car and scream as loud as I can, sweat and spittle spraying across the occupants. "Scary, isn't it?", I suggest. They are all transfixed in whimper mode. The guy in the back looks like he's had an accident in his pants. That day was ace.

And many, many more. I've had a few dodgy incidents where people have ganged up on me or have not backed down but for the most part, crap drivers in cars are complete cowards IME.

Some trog flicked a fag at me from his car window as I was riding down the outside of a traffic jam. I looked back at him and his mates laughing but just gave him the standard finger and carried on. At the end of the road the cause of the tailback was a pretty bad accident. I would have loved to have stood there with the police to see his face as he rolls up, but they looked pretty busy with all the traffic and mangled cars.

I carry my shackle lock looped over the bars for defence in situations such as this - although I have never had anything thrown at me apart from abuse - but I have had cars try to force me off the road.

The trouble with carrying the lock like this is you get tempted to use it - I dented a van with it in temper once which rather scared me as I rather lost it.

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IKWYM TJ, often wonder what would happen if you panelled in a bonnet/light cluster etc with a D-lock. Probs best not to find out...

Al - a nice dent in the bonnet of a works van was the result - a couple of inces across and and inch deep. I nearly put it thru the screen tho but managed to control myself enough not to.

Kind of think if yo8u went mental on someone's car they'd shit themselves...but there would be enough witnesses around to ID you, support his claim & you'd be screwed, unless you slashed a tyre & got away.

BMW once bumped a GF's rear tyre with his front bumper. I wasn't there but quite glad - she was fine and I would have properly lost it.

In the instance above the van driver nearly hit me by being careless. At the next lights I caught up with him and remonstrated loudly. The van driver then deliberately edged into me. I waved the lock at him at which point he drove into me ( gently) - I was stationary alongside his front wing and he turned the wheels to full lock and drove a couple of feet which pushed me and I almost fell. I then lost my temper and thwacked the van with the lock. He assaulted me first - but my actions were probably more than could be justified in self defence but I would have had a legal defence of sorts

I have also made sure that a car that pulled out on me leaving me nowhere to go got a bar end right down the side of the car. I could have taken the impact on my shoulder but took it on the bar end instead

i seem to have particular bad luck riding past a certain place on one of my training loops ...

first up out on a road ride cold winters day group of 6-8 of us blind bend we were riding 2 up on our side of the road ... tosser comes up behind blasting his horn and overtaking on the blind bent to which he got a torrent of abuse- his car stops he throws a shit load of abuse our way - one of our lot shouts at him to get his fat arse out his 4x4 -he refuses and says that next time he sees us out he is going to run us off the road.

one of the 8 is a very high up police officer and i believe the chap got a stern warning (couldnt do anything official for some reason or other) from friends in uniform - as well as having his wing mirror forcably removed as he sped off dangerously close to another mate who is nuts squared....

then last week similar happened with just 2 of us on the same bit of road - not riding 2 up single file on the same corner and a car came up behind us at 60 braked hard skidded and blasted the horn and shouted abuse at us apparently cyclists are only allowed on cycle paths not on country roads according to him - it wasnt like we were round the blind bend or owt we were clearly visable from miles up the road and we were shifting. He got a half bottle to the bonnet as he overtook on the blind bend purely for being a complete and utter tosser.

There was a story in my local paper a year or so ago when a local cyclist rode past some 'yoofs' and felt a bang on the back of his helmet, assumed he'd had something thrown at him but carried on. When he got home he found a small knife sticking out the back of his helmet! Lucky escape.

I've rarely had a problem when on the road other than the usual occasional shouts of abuse. Once though when commuting in London some tosser swerved twice across the road to try and knock me off after i'd shouted at him for cutting me up. Never had red mist like it and i wanted to kill him. Fortunately my survival instinct kicked in and i let him go as the car had 4 rather large looking eastern europeans in so it would have been a battle i'd never have won.

Don't let these idiots put you off riding though otherwise they win.

A mouthful of beer spat over me from a car load of Rangers fans, while stopped at the lights in the east end of Glasgow. Given it was a derby day and the idiots from both sides were rampaging up and down the streets in all directions, reacting to that would have resulted in a dead-cert hospital trip.
Still blame my die-hard Celtic supporting team-mate who designed the predominantly green club jersey.

Are you sure the Rangers fan wasn't just trying to talk to you forgetting he had a mouth full of beer. They are pretty stupid you know! Lol

my favourite is getting a fag flicked at you. Stop, collect said object, hoy it through open car window onto back seat. Watch the ****er scream to a halt to try to stop his upholstery going up in flames.

samuri wins!

Samuri, some of the stuff in your blog is hillarious, recounting tales of near misses and encounters with the lower forms of life in our neck of the woods.

My favorite is the one where you move over for a dog walker, merely to be called the C word. Brilliant writing.

I know a chap who, when cut up by a car, pulled up alongside it in traffic, opened the door, removed the keys, launched them as far as he could into a nearby field and pedalled off, leaving the car stranded. A marvellous effort! I'm too mellow, I just couldn't do that, although I'd love to say I would!

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my favourite is getting a fag flicked at you. Stop, collect said object, hoy it through open car window onto back seat. Watch the ****er scream to a halt to try to stop his upholstery going up in flames.
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If that was possible, they wouldn't do it.
None of these chav scum are brave enough to do something they might get caught for.
Weirdest one I had was some scumbag blasting a claxon at me as I went by. Funny thing was, had the iPod on so it was a faint little toot.

The chav in the, I thought very recognisable, Clio who threw a coke carton at me was funny too. I think he lived down a road I used to walk with my dog. Clio had blacked out back windows and I saw an identical car pulling into a driveway. Over a couple of days I saw another 2 identical Clios, so in the end I wasn't absolutely certain it was him, so the paint stripper is unused on my garage shelf.

I had various food chucked at me on one occasion by a car full of teens & the girl in the back seat found it very amusing to laugh at me out the back window. There's a level crossing about a mile ahead, so I nailed it hoping it was down. I think for the first time ever that I had rode that route, it was not down.....I was gutted.
Didn't even get the registration number to report it.

njee20. I think that would be my favourite attempt at revenge. Stick hand in car, whip out ignition key & ride off with it.

I just think its general juvenile behaviour from kids and adults alike. It is a form of assault but in a moving car difficult to prove who did it. You have to ask the question what other things have they done - i.e. drunken brawls etc. Does make you think you are singled out though - my sympathies - don't give up the road bike - just calm down first - most people are good at heart!

Best form of considered retaliation, as suggested by Clubber of this parish, is to open their rear passenger side door and ride off. You don't damage their car in any way and unless they have a passenger you leave them in a really awkward situation.

Best form of considered retaliation, as suggested by Clubber of this parish, is to open their rear passenger side door and ride off. You don't damage their car in any way and unless they have a passenger you leave them in a really awkward situation.

IMHO, and in my experience,the best form of considered action is to avoid esculating the situaution, even if that means doing nothing and riding away. If someone's prepared to chuck an object or hurl abuse at you then there's a good chance they're prepared to take it further. When I worked as a courier in London one of the first things I learnt was not to over-react to abuse, being cut up, and other, sometimes genuine, mistakes by other road users and pedestrians.

Also, if you come out worse you end up carrying the stress around with you for the rest of the day or longer along with any physical injuries you may sustain. Obviously, if someone does something extremely stupid and you're able to take it further, (maybe through the law if you have witnesses) then it may be practical to pursue it. But overall, look after yourself, don't risk making the situation worse.

My worst time I was riding down a hill right near home and there was a gang of kids - obligatory hoodies etc - three on one side of the road and three on the other shouting at each other. I wasnt paying much attention. Same kids had thrown rocks at me before but they are pretty bad aim and had never hit.

Then I hear "get her get her" and one launches himself across the road and aims a karate kick at me. Luckily I was riding pretty much in the middle of the road (loads of people opening car doors without looking there for some reason) and his kick was square on my thigh and not bike / foot / hand but it still sent me across the road. Lucky break number two was I was on my MTB and not road bike so I managed to hold it upright and could pedal off but still had to get past a couple of his mates further down the road.

That one was scary - and round the corner from the police station too, not that anyone was there to be of any kind of assistance.

I didnt ride that road for about a month but I got too annoyed at having to take detours on account of little sh*theads and have gone back that way. People walking out into the road too fast still give me the sh*ts though

Very true slugwash. Nowasays i try to respond to road rage by laughing at the perpetrator. They cut you up and get angry - a nice comedic insult and laugh at them and give a cheery wave as you cycle off. spoil their day more than they spoil yours

Aye it's a difficult balance - get sucked in and possibly have it all go horribly wrong (I got a kicking for just looking at someone who'd walked out in front of me) or let it all go...

I know it's hard to keep it cool, but it's worst remembering that you'll never won against 900kg+of steel.

And no sentence for the car driver is going to make a limp or your spinal cord grow back.

It can be funny when these attacks go wrong though. A while ago, I had a white van driver (the cliches are true, aren't they?) get the hump and start hooting me apparently because I was taking a perfectly legal right hand line while turning right on a small roundabout. I wasn't exactly holding him up either, but there you go!

After we came off the roundabout, the van pulled alongside me and I glanced in the side window at the perfect time to see the following scenario unfold. Three guys across a bench seat; the driver, guy on the passenger side winding down the window and guy in the middle lobbing a sandwich at me. Unfortunately, the timing between these last two was not what it could have been. The window winder just wasn't quick enough and the sandwich hit the glass, messily revealing itself to be egg and mayo, then dropped down, presumably into the door pocket. The look of first frustration and then anger on their faces as they realised I was laughing at them was a picture, as I took a convenient left turn and watched them recede along the road! 😀