Are cyclists targets for abuse?

[gavintc]

Closet gay as well - has cocks on the brain.

 

[Gandalf]

My wife refers to my perfectly ordinary and not even tight bibshorts as "those perverted shorts".

 

[Trevrev]

Closet gay as well - has cocks on the brain.

You've got me big boy............

 

[purplepolly]

Now i am laughing.........I've just mentioned to my wife about the Lycra thing, she said "Not only do they look cocks, but screaming gays spring to mind"...........I'm still pissing myself now.

Don't quite get it. What's so funny about men being homosexual?

 

[BentMikey]

Anyway, i'm bound to be a bit slower than most. I've still ride my Grifter that my parents got me when i was ten. Ok i've put slicks on it. Thats helps.

 

[BentMikey]

Ah, yes, that would be me, gay as gay:

 

[Trevrev]

That picture is just how i see lycra clad cyclists......Mincing along with a bike between their legs.............LOL.

 

[BentMikey]

That picture is just how i see lycra clad cyclists......Mincing along with a bike between their legs.............LOL.

Rollerblading is well gay, apparently.

You're still a slow old tortoise, mind.

 

[Trevrev]

You're still a slow old tortoise, mind.

The old grifter isn't getting any younger......The twist grip gear change is slipping in third. You try getting a new toggle chain nowadays!!
I'd still beat all the roadies on here with it though !!!! hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

 

[J4CKO]

Cyclist are targets only because they arent cocooned in steel, sad state of affairs that simply not driving a car makes you subject to abuse, I have gone 18 months with anything but I am a grumpy vindictive twat if crossed and anyone who crosses me who doesnt kill me will or I dont see will come off worse, in fact I will see it as an opportunity to express the more unpleasant side of my nature

 

[XmisterIS]

^^^ In complete agreement, even though I don't like it at all.

A few years back a chav deliberately scalped me on a country road while his passenger shouted "waaaaaankeeer" at me and tried to hit me as the car went past. I nearly ended up in a ditch at about 25mph while the car missed me by millimetres.

I pulled up beside his car at the set of lights at the end of the road ... there were no other cars about, and he was suddenly not such a big man after all when I grabbed him by the collar, pulled him half out of the window and threatened to rip his head off! Luckily, only his shirt got ripped and I did not punch his lights out.

I felt awful about it afterwards, but I was so enraged and full of endorphines and adrenaline at the time that I would have pleaded diminished responsibility!

I should point out that that is the one and only time that I have totally lost it with someone!

 

[BentMikey]

*applause*

 

[Lazy-Commuter]

*applause*

Hear hear. I'm a pacifist and abhor violence - probably due to being a diddy little shortass who'd (nearly) always come off second best.

But sometimes it just has to be done. That was one of those times.

 

[Plax]

I think just the fact your not in a car is encouragement enough. I've had it a couple of times on the bike - from lads in a builders van pissing about offering to tow me up the hill etc or just rude people shouting something (I can never hear what they say). I've had it once as a ped when a lad shouted "nice arse" out the window. Then when I've been out running I've had builders wolf whistle at me.
I just ignore it all, although the lads in the builders van were starting to wind me up as they happened to overtake me pretty much around the same place/time over several days and *always* did something. Thankfully they must have been on a job as I've never seen them since.

 

[Browser]

I've had the unintelligble shouts, the coherent shout of "why the f**k are you riding so far out into the road!" and people in cages trying to smack me on the ar5e with their mirrors. Fortunately, because most of my commute is on infrequently-trafficked back roads I miss most of the nob squad.
Trevrev, with the amount of pmsl-ing you've done on this thread, your pants must smell pretty rank by now!