Bizarre incident of car following a bike on the pavement...

[Goldfang]

As someone who regularly rides home from work after 10.30pm this being followed by cars that could easily overtake is something that happens quite often. I agree that it is totally unnerving, never had anyone follow me onto the pavement! I agree with the possibility of the drunk driver, or the intimidating boy racer type, although a bit early for them! I also have a pet theory that there is a section of the motoring fraternity who are petrified to overtake cyclists whatever the road conditions. On a recent afternoon run, an old couple trundled along behind me for what was nearly 2 miles of dead straight, traffic free road.
Regards, goldfang

 

[Rhythm Thief]

... on the other hand, I sometimes get fed up with the cyclist I'm following waving his arm about trying to get me to pass. Er, no, I'll decide when I think it's safe to overtake, thanks.

 

[buggi]

i got followed by a perv in a car once, some years ago, when out on my bike.

i passed a parked car and happened to glance in the wingmirror and make eye contact with the driver just as i came out of Birmingham at Camp Hill. I thought nothing of it until i got a few hundred yards down the road and the same thing happened again. "That's weird" i thought as i had that da ja vu feeling.

Anyhow, this continued all the way through Sparkbrook, Sparkhill and Hall Green. I'm not sure whether he knew I had already clocked him. But when I got to the College Arms and passed him again, I stopped my bike, turned round and looked the driver squarely in the face. He took off and made a right turn, and I guessed that he was going to come out further down.

Sure enough, he did, he was waiting for me again and I again made it clear I'd seen him. Lucky for me, i had just bought my first mobile phone and, as he knew I had seen him, he pulled into Hall Green Station obviously hoping to pick the trail again after I'd ridden off. But i rode up to one of the shop fronts and hid in a doorway so he couldn't see me as he pulled out of the station and called the police, and as he came out i gave them his registration number.

he then looked back and saw me on the phone (my intention entirely as i came out from my hiding place) and he took off back towards Birmingham (not everyone had mobile phones then so i suppose he wasn't expecting it).
Unfortunately, the police were UNinterested, as they never came back to me to say whether they got him or not.

 

[marinyork]

... on the other hand, I sometimes get fed up with the cyclist I'm following waving his arm about trying to get me to pass. Er, no, I'll decide when I think it's safe to overtake, thanks.

It's not a particularly silly thing to do, most drivers aren't as good as you, quite often they'll hang back and then get frustrated at a missed opportunity and do it in a dangerous place.

 

[ComedyPilot]

It's not a particularly silly thing to do, most drivers aren't as good as you, quite often they'll hang back and then get frustrated at a missed opportunity and do it in a dangerous place.

I saw a girl ride straight off the path onto Mill Lane in Beverley yesterday, no looking, no indicating - nothing, and into the path of a car.

The car following her was only doing about 10-15mph, and was in a position where they could safely stop having anticipated her movements.

I was that car driver.

Could so easily have been a different outcome.

 

[marinyork]

Well if we're going to go the route of a non sequitur (and RT as a moderator should really behave himself) we might as well make them interesting. Sounds tame. I've had motorbikes drive towards me down my side of a reservation.