Richmond Park road rage nutjob..

Apologies if this has been done….

But incidents like this make me appreciate my mtb even more! Cleary the driver has one or two issues…couple that with another driver today who closed to within less than 2 ft of fast moving group on the road today….& couldn’t see the harm in it. Oh & a big suv who was in a rush to get to the back of the next queue…. 😀

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Why they don’t make the park one way I don’t know.
A bike lane and one for cars.

Nice rage gurn.

This is linked near the bottom of that story. How the absolute **** can you deliberately drive a car at somebody, knock them down and not go the prison?

http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/11210141.Five_points_for_driver_who_knocked_down_cyclist_after_argument_in_Richmond_Park/

MSP….

I can’t see how it’s not an assault of some sort…5 points & £600 just takes the p1ss!

Why are cyclists that chose to film their rides almost all confrontational dickheads?

I take it you didn’t read the story or watch the video before making that moronic comment.

Driver is clearly a nutjob and dangerous on the roads, but bejeesus, the rider was just as bad (albeit not driving two tons of killer vehicle dangerously).

We’ve all had near misses like that where you have a shout, but the continuing barrage of foulness from the cyclists mouth was appalling.

Yes, if the car was too close, give is a whack with your hand (if you can reach, it’s too close).
Yes, shout something to let them know how bad their driving was.
But no, don’t keep on calling them a c8nt and yelling at them in their face – how is that going to help? Was the cyclist deliberately trying to get punched – I can’t see the courts looking favourably at that.

And that cycle lane looks grim. Not surprised they aren’t on it.

There are no winners there. And no one’s mother would have been proud of them.

Richmond park – so glad my local cycling is less of a honey pot. Pretty tedious driving too at certain times of the day now it’s so popular which requires a certain degree of patience and matey clearly doesn’t have it.

Cyclist sounded just as much as a nutter as the driver.

Agree that the driver was to close but that cyclist doesn’t help matters at all.

It’s was a battle of who could shout loudest.

Nothing wrong with the cyclist reaction .I would have been the same but would have probably thumped the driver as well

Some serious victim blaming going on here, all the cyclist has done is stand up to a bully.

Cyclist was shaken and startled by a man in a 2-ton car trying to run him off the road, then getting out and threatening to kill him.

In the face of that completely unwarranted provocation, I don’t blame him for reacting angrily.

That looks like a great candidate pic for a photoshop challenge 🙂

That cycle lane is continually broken up with driveways and roads. I never use it.

“Why they don’t make the park one way I don’t know.
A bike lane and one for cars.”

Not actually “in” Richmond Park or on “Priory Road”.
Looks like it was on Priory Lane which does lead into Richmond Park eventually.

Sorry the guy on the bike was in his right to have a go ,but when the prat in his Landy stopped to have a go that would have been open season , moving into the cyclist was a clear violent act , and he clearly needed his head putting through the rear window after the camera was turned off , but the cyclist didn’t help himself with the gobbing off

What a pair of pansies. Embarrassing for them both.

Why is that angry man wearing his little sister’s jacket?

Two things; has the drivers name being published? its not Bill Bailey is it?

Also it would make a great vine/tshirt/edited highlights/gif.

Some serious victim blaming going on here, all the cyclist has done is stand up to a bully.

No he hasn’t – he’s just descended to level of the driver with some very ineffective swearing. He achieved nothing. Either attempt to explain why the guy is wrong, call him a bellend/laugh at him and pedal off or man up and inflict actual pain.

Christ, some of you lot have the patience of saints. 🙂

I’m afraid I’d have smacked him one.
It’s the only language that would have got through to him.

meh.
Southeners. 😉

Did he drop his phone at some point? A well aimed spd would have shut him up.

The issue though for the cyclist, is that when you are nearly squashed and killed, then verbally abused by someone who did it all sorts of adrelanine go through you. Its quite hard to be coherent and its takes alot to keep yourself focussed and your arms and legs away from that person.

I wonder who the guy is and what he does, quite seriously. It would be interesting to see his explanation.

The real irony in situations like this, is that the driver couldn’t wait the few seconds that it would have taken for him to overtake safely, but was willingly to stand in the road arguing the toss (blocking it for other road user, much more than any cyclist could) for over three minutes.

(The fact that he criticised the cyclist’s lycra, whilst wearing a gimp suit, didn’t escape my notice either)

I stopped looking at road.cc a while back as their site is half filled with stuff like this – cyclist road death/head cam near death experiences and consequently is depressing. Occasionally to lighten the mood they include a drugs scandal.
Logging onto a cycle site, I want to see new toys, ideas of places to visit and accounts of heroic 2 wheel deeds done.

Yeah try restraining yourself after these type of worryingly more common incidents !!!

Mr gimp suit was a c**k .. !!

I’m sorry; I stopped watching once it turned into an expletive slanging match. But from what I saw both were as responsible as the other for the prolonged argument. Although the Landi driver is obviously an ass hole and made a mistake the cyclist, as many other, doesn’t help himself. This and other posts with the assumption the cyclist is always in the right is getting tedious.

Hats off to the chap on the blue bike who intervened, without him two shouty men would have escalated to fisticuffs. He Really didn’t have to put himself in the middle of that.

Not sure the disco driver realised there was a camera mounted on the bike either…

We’ve all been wound up with shitty passes and shouted, and you sort of feel secure doing so because generally most drivers don’t want to get out of the tin box and “debate” but once they do stop and get out, the situation changes dramatically as you are clearly faced with someone more predisposed to the “fight” rather than “flight” end of the spectrum… Pick your battles if you can.

Just clocked the shouty gimp’s discovery has a bike carrier on the roof…..

Obviously the driver was having a bad day, and couldnt log onto singletrack to vent his feelings at having just bought a Land Rover Discovery with bike rack on the roof to which he couldnt reach due to be a short arse.

“You mahggggg!!!!!”

“You slaahhhhg!!!!!”

“You cahnnnnttttt!!!!!”

“You wankahhhhh!!!!!”

“You mahgggggg!!!!!”

“You slaaahhhgg!!!!”

Rinse and repeat.

Could never live in London. Too many angry people piled on top of each other.

Absolutely pmsl @ 2.31 in. Gotta be a wind-up?
RM.

He mistakenly steered towards the cyclist because he thought he should be on the cycle path? Well I suppose that’s one way of interpreting it.

What exactly did the cyclist do wrong apart from swearing which bears any comparison with deliberately steering a couple of tonnes of metal at a soft living thing which is easily damaged?

The driver was blue touch paper waiting to go off, half a second after the cyclist had thumped on his car at the start and the guy was going off on one, effing and jeffing.

What exactly did the cyclist do wrong apart from swearing which bears any comparison with deliberately steering a couple of tonnes of metal at a soft living thing which is easily damaged?

Exactly.

I’d have had a few choice words for the angry little ballbag too.

Depressing how sanctimonious some of you are. Hope the cyclist takes it to the police and they treat it as assault (with a deadly weapon!).

A second cyclist, not wearing Lycra

ahahahahahaha

I suspect that there is previous that has been cut from the beginning of the video. I find it very surprising that a driver acts like that without it going on for a fair while beforehand. Not defending either of them mind, but I should think if a car tried to stop me like that, I’d have been resting my bars against the side of him.

The cyclist sounded like a lunatic but then, that can happen after someone assaults you with a deadly weapon.