Cyclist punched motorist in road rage attack

[Crankarm]

.......... there's so much love in the world.

Probably just a lovers' tiff .

 

[wafflycat]

Judging from the comments below story, cambridge appears to be awash with lawless psycopaths on bicycles - a kind of two wheeled viking invasion.

Indeed. Whenever I cycle to that fair city I go prepared, I take my battle axe (any comments about me *being* a battle axe will be dealt with severely..), paint myself with woad and wear my false beard.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Indeed. Whenever I cycle to that fair city I go prepared, I take my battle axe (any comments about me *being* a battle axe will be dealt with severely..), paint myself with woad and wear my false beard.

What would this involve?... just out of curiosity you understand....

 

[wafflycat]

What would this involve?... just out of curiosity you understand....

You'd certainly wince and the tone of your voice would change. Not in the direction of being more baritone. Does this help?

 

[mangaman]

This also caught my eye with the story. it quotes

"The cyclist rode off and the driver headed to where he believed the cyclist lived. There was a second altercation ten minutes later after the driver spotted the cyclist with another cyclist in Market Street.

How would the driveer know where the cyclist lives if this is a random road rage incident? Do cambridge cyclists have their address pinned onto their backs? There seems much more to it than the report states. If I was just assaulted and knew where the assailant lived, I would go to the police, not to their residence.

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I agree - when I read it I wondered if they knew each other.

Regardless, we are in the same territory as the thread about the man jailed for beating up a burglar - ie when does protecting yourself become revenge.

I would say after a fight in which the driver was punched, driving round and looking for the cyclist and confronting him again smacks of revenge.

From the facts we have, the original incident may have been a spur of the moment / 2 idiots fighting. The second incident is entirely the car drivers fault as it was pre-meditated by him (he had 10 minutes to simmer down).

He should have called the police and driven away. Wouldn't you (unless there is more to this than meets the eye)

 

[stowie]

Indeed. Whenever I cycle to that fair city I go prepared, I take my battle axe (any comments about me *being* a battle axe will be dealt with severely..), paint myself with woad and wear my false beard.

I haven't been to Cambridge for a while. When people said that cyclists and motorists were at war, I didn't believe that they meant this literally.

Cyclists getting drunk on mead and then pillaging towns. There really should be a law against it. Or at least something in the highway code.

As a cyclist, I should join the skirmishes, but woad drys my skin terribly.

 

[Origamist]

Indeed. Whenever I cycle to that fair city I go prepared, I take my battle axe (any comments about me *being* a battle axe will be dealt with severely..), paint myself with woad and wear my false beard.

I would not dream of calling you a battle axe, but why would you need a false beard?

 

[wafflycat]

I would not dream of calling you a battle axe, but why would you need a false beard?

Because I normally shave three times a day.

 

[BentMikey]

I reckon the cyclist is in the wrong, significantly so. I also think the motorist is in the wrong, but the story probably doesn't tell the truth of what happened.

 

[Arch]

Irrespective of the violence that ensued, I can't get my head around the statement that the cyclist cut in front of the car and then contact between the driver and cyclist seems to have seriously escalated to a full on scrap.

There are some seriously crazy people out there, on two wheels and four. maybe one or both were drugged up? The fact that the motorist reckoned he knew where the cyclist lived makes me think there was form between them, or perhaps their families. Describe it as an altercation between members of two rival drugdealing or criminal families, and it doesn't sound so unlikely. But because it's easy to classify people by their transport, that's how they are described.

 

[Muddyfox]

Christ, we are being a little touchy in here. Can we not just consider that a cyclist might be an instigator of violence. Not all cyclists are nice people. Riding a bike does not guarantee that you are a fine upstanding member of the public. Prats drive cars, prats ride bikes.

+1 ... I sometimes think people on this forum would defend Rapist's as long as they arrived and left on a bicycle

It was a Subaru driver after all. QUOTE]

It was a Legacy Estate FFS ... A family car

Simon

 

[just jim]

Whoaaa - ease down eh? That's not the impression I get.

 

[hackbike 666]

Yes there is something here and I have the impression the report is biased.

I cant see why the cyclist attacked the motorist unless there is some sort of reason.It's got to be very rare there is a Charles Bronson type cyclist out there with such a hatred for motons.

Tell you something some motons/cab drivers/bus drivers really push their luck and bully cyclists out there.Smallest in the food chain so to speak.

I wouldn't support the cyclist if he attacked the moton for no reason.

Also I find it weird how the moton looked for offending cyclist afterwards.

Once the bike went through the windscreen then it was in the news.

This country is very different to other countries I have visited.The car rules here.It's all foot to the floor stuff agressive driving and boy racing type driving.Everyone is in a hurry and no-one gives a to55 especially in London.

I think we need quite a few more traffic cops out there.Isn't it funny that when a moton gets done for speeding the fine is just to boost the goverment coffers and the poor moton feels victimised.

 

[Crankarm]

+1 ... I sometimes think people on this forum would defend Rapist's as long as they arrived and left on a bicycle

It was a Subaru driver after all. QUOTE]

It was a Legacy Estate FFS ... A family car

Simon

Well JD so long as they had a figure and behind as your avatar pic I would forgive them anything B).

 

[Muddyfox]

Well JD so long as they had a figure and behind as your avatar pic I would forgive them anything B).

+1 Mr Crankarm ... i cant argue with that

Simon