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Stanley, I think it’s because you failed to mention the cyclist swerved towards you, unclipped and kicked out at your car in your first post.
Most of us on her are likely to be competent cyclist who aren’t swerving in traffic. So when someone says a cyclist kicked their car we put ourselves in the cyclists position and wonder why a car driver would be close enough to be kicked.
You’ve explained it and I stand corrected from my earlier post.
The driver pulled out on you from a car park presumably without you seeing him and you had to swerve three metres out from the kerb into 'almost' oncoming traffic? Were you trying to avoid them or overtake them?
Either I'm misreading or something doesn't quite add up here. Not that I'm in any way condoning the driver's behaviour, but as written this sounds an awful lot like you should put a bit of work into looking where you're going, thinking ahead and slowing down a bit. Why would you throw yourself towards seemingly hypothetical oncoming traffic rather than grabbing a handful of brake lever?
I'm wary of car park mouths - doubly so pub ones - when on four wheels let alone on two. You have to be able to stop in the distance you can see, there's little merit in being "right" when they're scraping you out from under a Transit.
I've reported three close passes to businesses.
One was a disability support organisation with a freephone number on the back. I pulled over and reported it immediately. Within an hour i had the CE on the phone telling me how he would be talking to all driving staff about being safer on the road.
Another was a Landscaping/Earthmoving business - two of his big trucks had almost run me off the road.
I planned my discussion all the way to work and came up with "Have you ever had to call an employees' wife to tell them that their husband died at work today?" I left lots of long pauses and he was getting quite worried. It worked and I gave him all the details, promised he'd understood and would be talking to "all of the boys."
Last one ended up in a toe-to-bike-to-toe situation with a truck driver, discussions with police, a call from the police to the driver and eventually an apology from the driver for acting like a prize pillock.
Make the call. But do it thoughtfully.
Not too close. He looked over his shoulder as I was approaching him, then began to swerve out causing me to swerve almost into oncoming traffic. I was about 3m out from the curb at this point.
How wide was this road?
I'm a bit confused about how you can have given this guy so much space but still remained in your lane.
Is it possible that he was moving to the primary position to stop you from overtaking because there was oncoming traffic and you decided to squeeze past anyway?
I overtook a cyclist who decided to swerve into me and kick the car putting a dent in the side. I pulled over and got out. He shit himself and backed down. I was all calm and told him he was a militant dick and there had been plenty of room for me to overtake him. We calmly went our separate ways.
Nice story bro.
Cycling home today, a dick pulls out of pub carpark and nearly runs me off the road.
I'm generally not an angry fokker, but this kind of thing makes me angry.
My order of preference would be 3,2,1.
3. Depends how close it all was, if nothing ostensibly happened the Police probably won't / couldn't do anything.
2. Was he working at the time? Might be irrelevant assuming he's in a liveried vehicle. If I was an employer I wouldn't want my staff driving like dicks and then raging at people who calmly brought it to their attention..
1. It will fade in time, but for now I'd do something, then move on.