Anyone been off'd by a passenger shouting recently?

[terry_gardener]

have to admit this happened to me couple of months ago.
i wasn't expecting it and i jumped and wobbled slightly but stayed on the bike.
so i can see that it is possible to fall off by idiots in cars shouting at cyclists.

video above i have seen it before but still good.

 

[Plax]

Thank you Colin. I watched it even though I just knew something like that was going to happen and I still jumped!

With reference to the original post, I've jumped on one occassion when a car stealth'ed me and the passenger shouted something out the window. Usually I'm aware of my surroundings so don't get caught out like this, but I can easily see how you can lose control of a bike as a result as I did a mini swerve.

 

[downfader]

Have to remember that cars fast accelerating past have an almost redshift quality to how they sound (we hear this in ambulance sirens when they drive past).. theres a name for the audio effect but I cant remember it, it affects air pressure iirc.

 

[ColinJ]

Have to remember that cars fast accelerating past have an almost redshift quality to how they sound (we hear this in ambulance sirens when they drive past).. theres a name for the audio effect but I cant remember it, it affects air pressure iirc.

The Doppler Effect.

 

[downfader]

The Doppler Effect.

Thats the name!

 

[fimm]

I've had the usual "aauurerrhggumpfh" from passing chav-mobiles. I also had someone shout "Use the cycle path!" at me. Err, no, and anyway that's a pavement, not a cyclepath.