As the title, on a road bike ride today after work i was cycling along a 60mph speed limit road when i felt a big hit on my shoulder. 1st thoughts were shit i have just been hit by a vans wing mirror or such like. Only to find a ford focus speeding past with a lad half hanging out of the passenger window who had duly just punched me as they drove past.
Sadly by the time i realised what had just happend the car was a few 100yards away and i sadly could not get the reg no as it was to far away, with the knob still hanging out the window shouting and laughing.
Was hoping to see the car at some traffic lights where i would have gladly returned the favour to the car and also the occupants. Sadly i did not see the car again on the ride.
But seriously WTF is wrong with these morons, they could have very easily knocked me off my bike into there car, down a ditch etc. There really is some scum in this world. Looking back after cooling down i am glad i did not see the car again as i was so furious at the time i would have been unable to control myself had i caught up to them and would have probably seen myself getting into trouble with the law for killing em. I was enraged!!!
Fortunately i have been left with nothing but a fist sized bruise on my shoulder/back, but it could have been a whole lot worse had they knocked me of into the car etc.
I seriously hope karma gets em, scroutes
You can only hope they died on the next fast bend.
No i hope there death will be a lot slower and painful 👿
It's no consolation but I never cease to be amazed at the abuse I get on the road bike.
From the odd mild slap on the arse in town, to being shouted at which happens loads.
Then there is spitting which I've had from driver and passenger side. I reported this once and the coppers took details but wouldn't follow up as the spit has not connected. Apparently if it had they could have charged them with assault.
Many many drivers have given me the finger as I've waved in astonishment when they overtake a car but fail to allow for me coming the other way.
But the bet abuse of all happened at Sherston where a white van pulled up alongside me and the window was wound down. The passenger then held a Jack Russell out of the window into my face. The dog and I just looked at each other in a resigned manner and eventually the van ****ed off.
Troutie needs to come up with a super-hyper-mega-strength front light for instances such as this. Scrotes punch you, drive off, feel pleased with themselves...then you hit full beam and burn them to a crisp.
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I love the smell of polyester in the morning.
It reminds me of a comment by a commedian, I forget who, regarding juries. Imagine you're up in court for a crime you didn't commit. It's highly likely that one of these morons is sitting there deliberating about your actions. Worrying such people exist.
Imagine you're up in court for a crime you didn't commit.
Oh, I don't know - it doesn't seem too bad.
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Yeah sadly by the time my brain had kicked into gear from what the **** had just hit me, to shit get the car reg they were sadly to far down the road to see the reg no.
A mate of mine up in north Wales is a roadie and constantly gets abuse. He had some girls in a convertible throw water at him one day, chased them down to some traffic lights and questioned them and they hollered abuse - his response was apparently calm down and then emptied his water bottle in the drivers face. He also had a merc almost run him off the road (he's had a broken arm from this before) so he caught him up to gave him a 'stern telling off' only to have abuse back - he apparently threw the car keys in a hedge. Doesn't help either side there really.
Had a close encounter on my last road ride but think it was a nervous driver as she looked quite young.
You seen that blokeon YouTube who videos his commute? He's had death threats the lot.
You seen that blokeon YouTube who videos his commute? He's had death threats the lot.
There's a few, the more of it the better IMO. No need for abuse or shouting, no-one cares when they've just done something wrong (those that do care are not the ones that need shouting at). Video, document, report.
I've had (glass) bottles lobbed at me before, bounced (god knows how) off my top tube while yelling "get on the pavement". Nice.
I've had someone not look before turning into a drive and blocking my path causing me to hit their car and slide across their bonnet...I took off the wing mirror with my arse as I collided. Slightly off topic as no abuse followed. I handed a very shaken woman her wing mirror back telling her "here, you'll be needing this".
Where I work in oxfordshire there used to be a cyclist abusing local commuter nothing like the OPs encounter just fast, close passing whils't beeping and shouting. I had a couple of run ins so did a few others. only a couple got his number plate and nobody got any video/evidence. but all the reports were collated by the local business park cycle commuting fella and presented to the rozzers. who apparently payed the cock an unofficial vist and his ****tery ceased.
Reports even partial ones are worth making you may not get the reg but the next fella might and if they spot a pattern then a visit might calm the ****ers down...
we were verbally abused on an off road ride http://a-pic-a-ride.blogspot.com/ on road I've had cans and water thrown at me and a guy nudging me forward with his car at temporary traffic lights talking of which 3 lads shouting abuse from a golf convertable obviously didn't bank on the temporary lights that allowed me to catch them and empty the contents of my bidon over them and the posh interior
Got a drinks carton (Macdonalds Large) chucked at us the other day. Luckily my riding partner shielded me from most of the contents.
I was as annoyed by the littering as I was by the Coke shower
temporary lights that allowed me to catch them and empty the contents of my bidon over them
do road riders [i]really[/i] carry these!? why can't they just stop at a service station or pee in a hedge..?
We get white vans waiting at a considerate distance behind until it is safe to pass, children waving and if we are on a big climb, drivers shouting encouragement as they overtake (using all of the opposite lane). I don't ride in the UK though 🙂
and a guy nudging me forward with his car at temporary traffic lights
If someone had done that to me I seriously would have put my bike to one side and kicked 7 bells of crap out of his car. I came very close to doing just that once.
I once got pelted with a couple of Carling cans and a load of homophobic abuse while riding along the A6, so pleased that I caught them at the traffic lights for a bit of high brow discussion that I forgot to just get the reg number and report the morons.
There really is some scum in this world
I think that hits the nail on the head
Some police forces to dry to fight this kind of 'driving'. Here in Sussex I've put a few reports into the Operation Crackdown (google it) website, and received feedback from the police because of it.
OP: an oldish guy in my cycle club had that happen to him a year or so ago, some bellend leaned out of a passing car and whacked him one. He wasn't as lucky as you - he ended up in the hedge with a broken collarbone. 🙁
I've had litter chucked at me on a couple of occasions and, doing a hill climb race once, a driver came past pulled in really close to the rider a few metres in front of me and the passenger leaned out and threw the contents of the ashtray at him.
Personally I reckon that a British Cycling racing licence should also entitle the owner to carry a sidearm and the freedom to use it at will against such people...
Yep, ridiculous as it sounds you have to accept that things like this are going to happen all the time. I seriously don't get why people dislike cyclists so much in this country. I've had similar incidents beyond count. Throwing stuff, spraying stuff, spitting, shouting, pushing, slapping. It's pathetic at best and life threatening at worst. On the couple of occasions where I've reported it to the police when contact was actually made (hit by a full tin of coke one time and pushed off my bike another) and I got the number, they treated it like a joke asking what I wanted them to do about it and without witnesses they could do nothing.
I've chased a few cars down, which is exilarating and satisfying but at the end of the day you can't fight every ****wit in the world, there's just too many of them.
Wow if you were new to riding and read this post you would never get on a bike ,
I ve had the usual car door opening in front of me which resulted in me sprawling across the tarmac to which i was verbaly abused for because he didnt check his mirror before opening the door and that was my fault apparently
to which i retaliated by kicking his mirror off (which i know i shouldnt have done) with the comment you dont ****ing use it so you wont be needing it
only the other day i had a car pull out of a garage which happens to go right on to a cycle path (figure that out) not looking and nudging my leg as i passed to which i pointed at my eyes and asked him to use his it may help with not trying to kill people
to which you guessed it verbal abuse
This thread started with "WTF is wrong with people"
im inclined to 100% agree with that .
but at the end of the day you can't fight every ****wit in the world, there's just too many of them.
+ 1 & besides the knowledge that they are ****wits unworthy of the effort is enough for me, although the power to meter out instant punctures to offenders would be nice 😆
i have to admit iv never realised how stupid some ppl are while driving,almost got taken out every day last week riding the usual bristol/glos rd route,once by a guy playing a trumpet 😕 have to admit the buses have been great with letting pass before pulling out/pulling in ect
The only way seems to be for everyone that can video their commutes, does video them. That way you can post them up on youtube or send them to the police.
What about www.abusive-drivers.co.uk? Setting up something like that might allow cyclists to have their own rogues gallery of abusive drivers.
Over the last couple of weeks of riding the length of the country I've realised that...
Cockstands that shout at you drive white vans or golfs.
Vans related to highway maintenace are particularly bad.
People towing caravans don't realise how wide it is.
Lorry drivers are in the main really considerate.
Cattle / milk/ chicken other farm haullier vehicles are flipping awful drivers.
To put it in perspective, the vast vast majority of people are not deliberate tossers. And the majority of incidents are caused by people genuinely making a mistake or being a bit stupid, not cos they're deliberately out to get you. Unfortunately, there are a few who think it's hilarious to throw things, shout abuse etc.
Lorry drivers are in the main really considerate.
+1
There's a lorry I see fairly regularly, obviously a guy on a set run, who often nearly climbs the pavement on the other side of the road when he overtakes me. I always get a left/right/left flash of the indicators when he's completed his overtake and he always waits till it's 100% safe.
Was out in the car with the family yesterday - two roadies came flying out of a side turning without stopping - apparently I was supposed to swerve into the middle of the road to avoid them. Later the same trip on a steep downhill through a village, I stopped to let cars coming the other way through a constriction in the road, not really expecting two mtbers to come hurtling past on my outside causing the cars coming the other way to jam on the anchors...
Drivers eh?
CB bit confused, which of those two incidents constitutes assault then?
I can't argue that there isn't some complete cockery about but the vast majority of drivers don't put me in any danger. And to give the issue a bit of perspective, for every complete arse out there fifty other drivers seem to go out of their way to treat me with care andconsideration
kilo - don't be confused. I apologise, neither incident was, the fact that either could have resulted in a RTA with injury/death to multiple parties is by-the-by.
Thread was about 'people' if you care to check, point being that dicks ride bikes as well as drive cars...
kilo - don't be confused. I apologise, neither incident was, the fact that either could have resulted in a RTA with injury/death to multiple parties is by-the-by.Thread was about 'people' if you care to check, point being that dicks ride bikes as well as drive cars...
People in cars carrying out premeditated assaults on cyclists - different kettle of fish to riding / driving like a dick.
To the Op I would report the attack to the local police, they may have a pattern of complaints already
I've been deliberately run over after an altercation at a set of traffic lights. I was fractions of an inch away from my head being driven over by a following van. There was £300 of damage to my bike and I was covered in scrapes and bruises. Luckily someone had witnessed it all and noted the car number plate (which had sped off through a red light). It went to court and she got a six month ban and had to pay £150 damages. Not even enough to cover the damage to my bike. This unfortunately is societies attitude to cyclists.
they do it because they think they can get away with it.
report it and insist on a crime number
Golf ball in your jersey pocket. easy to get to, bounces down the road for ages until it hits something....car like :-).
Once had a van driver insisting he had priority over me and kept attempting to push me into the kerb - I just grated my bar ends down the side of his van coming up to the lights.
You're not alone. I've been involved in several similar situations. Usually just verbal abuse, but once had someone leaning out and flicking drink out of a bottle at me.
And of course, zillions of instances of just plain thoughtlessness, including having a car pull out of at junction in front of us and force my 5 and 6 year olds off the road, whilst cycling to school! The parent concerned came up with the fantastic line/excuse "you were going very fast" His wife did have the good grace to apologise for him though, and I expect he got it in the ear later.
As you say, morons.
a few weeks back before clocks changed had a 1/4 house brick thrown at me by some teens when riding home from gym in dark on a main rd - hit me on rucsac - obviously not experienced yobs as ran when i stopped and 2 of them stupid enough to come back shouting their mates name while i sat and waited by the bushes he'd disappeared into
reported as anti social behaviour next day in case was regular activity at location surprised to have police ring me back and ask me to come down to station - some concern that might have me on cctv threatening to rip testicles off yellow bellied little ****t hiding in bushes but no wanted to see if person they had in mind for name fitted my description - didn't - they said would have to drop unless i insisted on further investigation and said if the 1/4 brick had hid me rather than my rucsac they would have opened as an assault case also asked if brick had come from skip or rubble pile as would arrange to get moved
I'd say a pretty positive response
Edit bottles out of cars a few times and on general bad driving witnessed a roadie almost get hit yesterday as car first in line to turn right across his right of way stopped in the right turn lane and so car behind impatiently turned right from behind the stationary car into the one way street - effectively overtaking and cutting the corner and only missed the guy on the bike because he braked hard as saw it coming
I can't argue that there isn't some complete cockery about but the vast majority of drivers don't put me in any danger. And to give the issue a bit of perspective, for every complete arse out there fifty other drivers seem to go out of their way to treat me with care andconsideration
Very true, thank god. But if it is actually 2% of the population that are out to get you or so bad at driving they might kill someone, it really needs pointing out and sorting as it's still 750,000 people out to get you.
Good grief.
This is 100% why I don't ride on the road. If it weren't for other road users, I would ride on roads at least as much as I ride off road, but it is simply not worth the abuse and genuine danger of injury or worse.
Give me 20ft road gaps and rock drops any day - much safer.
Fortunate- I ride on road 20 times, I get 1 bit of grief.
I rode off road 20 times, I fall off at least 3 times.
I reckon on road is safer.
Usual caveat. Above stats. may be a generalisation.
But if it is actually 2% of the population that are out to get you or so bad at driving they might kill someone...
You misunderstood my convoluted point. Most drivers act harmlessly indifferent to me. Of the small balance, far more are conspicuously considerate than are aggressive or confrontational.
Give me 20ft road gaps and rock drops any day - much safer.
Don't think you're very good at risk analysis 🙂
Went to court two weeks ago for over a guy who over took me and my mate on road bikes in a Grand Cherokee Jeep in Chorley so close that it nearly caused us to crash into the kerb and we do loads of hours a week on the bikes so its no lack of bike skills etc.(We seem to get abused, shouted at, things lobbed at us nearly ever ride which is nearly ever day)Anyway as he overtook the lights turned red 200 m up the road so i caught him up and got along side him as he set off to ask him if he realised he was so close. He grabbed hold of me out the window at about 25-30 mph and tried to drag me off the bike,he was in a frenzy, lucky i pulled free and pulled behind him as their would only be one winner. He then did an emergency stop that was ridic and i did a cool endo on a road bike, not and again nearly had a big off. Three witness included an independant older lady with an OBE and all statements were nearly exactly the same. He got off as the jury could not be 100% sure he had hold of me which was an assault. SO MAD !!
Next time someone gives me grief on the bike im gone to kick the **** out of em, wasted so much police time, court time, witnesses time and my time for a case so obviously the drivers fault. I will teel you the reg number if its allowed on the forum to watch out for this bell end. I for one will **** him up if I see him again.
Hate the UK's public opnion about road cyclists, it stinks. I never get this agro in other european countries but saying that 95% of the UK population are ****tards IMO.
do road riders really carry these!? why can't they just stop at a service station or pee in a hedge..?
LAst time I checked a bidon wasn't something for carrying pee in?
It went to court and she got a six month ban and had to pay £150 damages. Not even enough to cover the damage to my bike. This unfortunately is societies attitude to cyclists.
Her insurance should have covered your bike damage, the damages is on top of that? (but still agree with your point).
He got off as the jury could not be 100% sure he had hold of me which was an assault. SO MAD !!
Annoying to say the least. I'd have made sure there were bruises and there were photos of them.
http://www.abusive-drivers.co.uk/?
This has the slight flaw that car reg != driver. I could borrow my other halfs car and go on a cyclist bashing run, give her her car back and then a week later her get a mouthful of abuse from cyclists. Or even if you sold the car and the next chap gets it in the neck.
I think this is why betterdrivingplease was taken down eventually.
95% of the UK population are ****tards IMO
However it may seem to you that really isn't true.