Another twat shouting abuse and out of his car.......

[Crankarm]

Set off at 8.15am this morning overcast and grey for the club ride 12 miles away. Barely had I travelled 500m from my door and out onto the main road, well rural B-road out of town, hicupping on breakfast, when red car chav Jap nightrider type car pulls alongside and this nuckledragger starts shouting lots of abuse at me along the lines of "Effing cyclists shouldn't be on the road!!!!" It's 08:15am on a sunday morning FFS. He looks about 22 years old, white, podgy, skin head blond, earing. Looks a bit like Freddy Flintoff, but of course it wasn't him, I hope.

I think what the hell is this all about? Is this idiot for real? I'm cycling along minding my own business. I've barely been on the road for 1 minute on a quiet sunday morning. WTF have I done?

So I give him a long stare, a curled lip and tell him "Fcuk off!" He drives off up the road. I saw him pull into a drive way about 300m futher on, get out, and stand in road behind his car clearly ready to stop me. Anyway I stood on the pedals and accelerated as hard as I could. As I reach him he is shouting "You think your effing hard now! I'll show you what hard is you twot!" (Although he used the c word instead of twot). I thought no I will show you dumb ******. His clenched knuckles were dragging on the tarmac. I sprinted toward him at about 25mph, roaring at him and shouting a few choice words as I passed him. Had he not jumped out the way he would have been run down. I did think of kicking the wing mirror off his car as well as I went by but was in a hurry to get to the start of the club ride so didn't want even more aggro. Anyway I'm well up the road before he can get in his car to follow me. Not sure where he went but he didn't follow me. Maybe he had thought better of harrassing cyclists on a quiet sunday morning and turned around, or nipped into the petrol station I had just passed or realised what a twat he was and committed hari kari.

Anyway it was a rude awakening this sunday morning. Had a good 70 mile ride though.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Fess up time.

I was riding into York for the ride yesterday, and as I crossed a junction, a Volvo driver leaned out and shouted, 'Get off and effin walk'

Quick as I could I replied words to the effect of , 'Go eff yourself'

He then set off through the lights, so I did a quick U turn and chased him through the streets for 500m or so. I was livid, and he knew it, so didn't stop.

Still don't know what I'd have done if I had caught him, cos I was as by bad swearing at him with women and people nearby??

A quick meaningful middle finger gesture, then left turn and threaded my way to the Minster.

Oh, and a prat in a silver 4*4 Landrover (tw*tmobile) passed me and Velocidad blaring his horn on the road to Strensall, and I wanted a piece of him too.

Pillocks.

 

[Garz]

The more rides I go on crank, the greater the chance of some numpty either feeding their inferior driving complex or moronic passenger chav trying to impress anyone will similar neanderthal I.Q around.

Usually takes me about one minute to remind myself that im out to enjoy my ride and eventually forget about it. It's hard but just not worth getting involved with idiots who don't want to be reasoned with.

Nice 70 miler anyhow!

 

[purplepolly]

Is it just my imagination or is there a lot more of this lately? I usually just get w*nk*r which I'm not sure is actually correct, me being a woman and all.

 

[John Ponting]

pp, I believe that the phrase can be used for women - especially if a man is also involved.

google can be your friend - as well as a source of constant amazement.

 

[Crankarm]

The more rides I go on crank, the greater the chance of some numpty either feeding their inferior driving complex or moronic passenger chav trying to impress anyone will similar neanderthal I.Q around.

Usually takes me about one minute to remind myself that im out to enjoy my ride and eventually forget about it. It's hard but just not worth getting involved with idiots who don't want to be reasoned with.

Nice 70 miler anyhow!

I did forget about it until now obviously. But what do you do when some twat is between you and where you want to go and looking as if he is prepared to take you out. Watching all these depressing progs on TV where the criminals are treated with greater care than the victims and you are encouraged to turn the other cheek and seek help form the authorities, bollcoks to that. I'm sick of been seen as a second class citizen as a cyclist and a member of a group who can easily be imtimidated. Our country is broken because scum like this think they can get away with stuff like this. Well they ain't going to do it with me.

Normally I have very happy uneventful rides. It's sometime since something like this has happened. I probably took exception to the effront of this idiot as it was early on a sunday morning I had barely woken up having been on the bike for all of about a minute. I was still savouring the remnants of breakfast between my teeth.

 

[Joe24]

Theres a blue van around here with a dent in the side, sort of fist sized. Might match mine.
Funny that.

 

[ladyrider100]

There will soon be a white minivan with a footprint in the side if he carries on - I think drivers expect a female cyclist to be a bit of a wimp.......they got a shock coming.....they dont call it Shottingham for nothing

 

[simon_brooke]

Is it just my imagination or is there a lot more of this lately? I usually just get w*nk*r which I'm not sure is actually correct, me being a woman and all.

It's the Jeremy Clarkson effect. These twunts watch Top Gear, and they think 'o th47 jeremi K1arksun he s0 l33t k3wl + he sh0utz f1ngz @ sykl... cicl... b1k3 rid3rz so k3wl LOLZ LOLZ LOLZ OMG LOLZ me sh0utz f1ngz me be k3wl!'

From experience (one of these twunts headbutted me and then deliberately pushed me into oncoming traffic) I strongly recommend you don't aggravate these situations. You're pretty vulnerable on a bike.

 

[Crankarm]

Why let people wind you up?

Indeed User3143 why let people wind you up...... some just do User3143.

 

[Crankarm]

It's the Jeremy Clarkson effect. These twunts watch Top Gear, and they think 'o th47 jeremi K1arksun he s0 l33t k3wl + he sh0utz f1ngz @ sykl... cicl... b1k3 rid3rz so k3wl LOLZ LOLZ LOLZ OMG LOLZ me sh0utz f1ngz me be k3wl!'

From experience (one of these twunts headbutted me and then deliberately pushed me into oncoming traffic) I strongly recommend you don't aggravate these situations. You're pretty vulnerable on a bike.

So you were off your bike confronting them? I would imagine it would be difficult to headbutt a moving cyclist......

 

[magnatom]

There is no explanation for this type of behaviour. Be happy in the knowledge that they will likely die of stress/heart attack/car crash/stabbing etc at some point in the near future (no death is good, but it would remove their genes....)

I must admit, I haven't had a comment like this for a good long while now. I think drivers on my commute are used to me!

 

[Crankarm]

There is no explanation for this type of behaviour. Be happy in the knowledge that they will likely die of stress/heart attack/car crash/stabbing etc at some point in the near future (no death is good, but it would remove their genes....)

I must admit, I haven't had a comment like this for a good long while now. I think drivers on my commute are used to me!

Cheers Magna. You have indeed been quiet recently. Maybe you've converted your fellow road users to be aware of cyclists around where you ride so you're now reaping the benefits of your high profile cycling .

 

[addictfreak]

PP

I think your right it seems to be getting worse. Not only abuse being hurled either, I have had water (i hope it was water) thrown over me and other objects hurled too.
A friends wife was actually hit in the face by an egg thrown from a car full of youngsters.

I do my best to obtain a registration number and I have reported it to the police.
In my experience it seems to be mainly younger drivers, although im sure its not entirely down to them.

 

[cheadle hulme]

Its a British thing too. After a month of cycling around France I can remember one incident were a car passed close, although not dangerously. Certainly not beeping or verbal aggro.

Back in Stockport and very first day out - time to get the old invisible bubble back on - its the only way to stay sane.