This thread has got me looking at other clips of cyclists confrontations. There are hundreds of them, there seems to be a class of cyclist whose sole wish is to get footage for YouTube, some even seem to see incidents coming but do nothing to avoid them even if it means contact. I was out for hours yesterday in the country and if I had a problem it was cars not wanting to pass me because they figured the road wasnt wide enough. That resulted in me having to speed up hills, something I never do! What did I do with these considerate motorists, well I didn't have a camera to post how nice they were on YouTube so I gave them a friendly wave to say thanks. Do we have a breed of cyclists, guessing more so in towns, that seek confrontation, it appears so.
Pah! You're not trying hard enough, not looking hard enough and are probably being cowed into the gutter by psychotic and violent motorists...
I too have failed to find the sort of discord that many find with great frequency. You and I are both terrible failures and probably do not love cycling enough.
Like you, I find almost all other road users considerate, skilled and courteous. We are failures for thinking so!
It may be because my forty-plus years of cycling, thirty-plus years of driving and the fact that I rode on the public highway at a very young age have somehow led me to see no threat, just as a tamed animal doesn't fear humans. We must change!
You and I must train ourselves to be stronger, to be constantly on the lookout for the malefactor and (most important of all) selflessly capture it on film and put it online for the benefit of all.
We must march today!! We must stand up against beastly, horrid cars!!!!!! We must become HEROES!!!! (I now imagine stirring music and a slightly onanistic fantasy in which beautiful women throw themselves at me for saving cycling).