Cyclist 'road rage' attack...

[Cab]

Apparently...

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=485222

Although if two cars both passed the cyclist close enough such that he could reach out and punch them, they've both overtaken him dangerously close. Typical of the local snot rag not to report that...

 

[mr_cellophane]

How much force does it take to throw a punch hard enough to break a car window ?

 

[Cab]

How much force does it take to throw a punch hard enough to break a car window ?

Dunno. Never tried. I would suspect that if you hit it in just the right place, it wouldn't be THAT hard to do.

 

[2Loose]

Typical of the local snot rag not to report that...

Indeed.

 

[HobbesChoice]

Typical of the local snot rag not to report that...

what had happened ...

Enough said![/B]

 

[Fantus]

How much force does it take to throw a punch hard enough to break a car window ?

Surprisingly, it doesn't take that much. One of my friends put his hand through a window a while back in a similar situation. The Car stopped next to him and he lost balance and his hand went right through.

The cyclist seemed agitated with not a lot of room for maneuveur.

That's more than some rags would say, at least...

 

[thomas]

How much force does it take to throw a punch hard enough to break a car window ?

Depends...certainly you can thump a bus' windows quite hard without them breaking .

Most of the times with cars, it's just been a quick slap of the body work if they give me a shock when passing too close.

This sounds like it was probably done at lower speeds, and therefore probably easier to put a bit of force into it (even without realising).

 

[SavageHoutkop]

Enough said!

Glad I'm not the first to point that out!
I wonder what the other side of the story is? Perhaps a preceding dangerous overtake by both the 4x4 and the volvo?

 

[SavageHoutkop]

How much force does it take to throw a punch hard enough to break a car window ?

Don't think it takes too much. They are strong in some ways and fragile in others...
'smash and grabs' are common in some parts of the world. All it takes is a concealed sparkplug in the hand, I believe, to break a window. Suggested means of avoiding this is to wind the window down a fraction so that the glass can flex rather than 'absorb' the impact by shattering.

 

[jimboalee]

"The driver retreated and the bleeding cyclist got back on his bike "

There's no need for swearing.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

What a crock.

"The driver, wondering what had happened and concerned for the cyclist got out to ask what was going on only to be further threatened by the enraged bike rider."

Yeah, of course he did... cyclist has just smashed my window (because I was way too close to him) so I get out, all calm like, and ask if he's okay...

What great reporting. No, really.

 

[benborp]

I was threatened with a charge of criminal damage after punching out a car windscreen. I'd already been carried about 300 yards on the bonnet and the driver wasn't slowing down.

 

[gaz]

While I'm sure there's probably an interesting story behind why the fellow on a bike decided it was necessary to punch something, that doesn't really excuse it. Anybody with any common sense would realise that if cyclists had to pay the Road Tax like the rest of us, such attacks would become less common.

HAHAHA Classic.

I also love

I've said it before, and i'll say it again: the sooner Cambridge grows out of this cycling fad, and wake up to seeing cars as the future, the better. I am yet to come across a cyclist in Cambridge who isn't a self obsessed, faux moralled egotistical car racist. I hope this particular cyclists hand hurts!

Ironic??

 

[fossyant]

The story is so one sided - what's to say the car didn't strike the cyclist, breaking the window, causing him to fall off.... you never know.....

 

[Shady]

Technically both cars broke the highway code as they didn't afford the cyclist enough room when overtaking :

Highway Code Rule 163 - give motorcyclists, cyclists and horse riders at least as much room as you would when overtaking a car (see Rules 211-215)