Dealing with anti cyclists

[wafter]

Being hyper-sensitive to criticism with a strong sense of morality and a short fuse it's rare that I don't react strongly to being attacked by bigoted dickheads.

I wish I could be more stoic but it really winds me up since as others have suggested their aggression is often only a symptom of their underlying basal twattery and prejudice, rather than a genuine grievance (which I'll always try to reason with / accommodate / apologise for if I'm in the wrong).

Most of the time their arguments are laugably illegitimate and hypocritical which makes me even more keen to set them straight, but again they're not interested in what's actually right and proper; only their own power trip to denigrate those they see as an easy target to appease their own fragile ego.

Short of becoming a zen master I prefer the Drago approach - get big and / or handy to try to deter them in the first place or be able to handle myself if it escalates. Sadly I'm neither of those things currently..

 

[briantrumpet]

I’ve no idea to be honest but there were no signs. I wonder what priorite the driver on the main road thought she had when she over took me then pulled a Uie to turn round blocking the whole road and causing me nearly to lock the wheels. 😱

If you can remember where it was, I'll look it up. I suspect it was PaD if there weren't obvious signs, which is why she came straight out in front of you.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I nearly got taken out by an old biddy today in France. She shot out of a side road on her bike across the main road which had a zebra on the far side of the junction. When I shouted at her she just pointed at the zebra which was a least 2 metres away from where she crossed. However given my lack of French I couldn’t tell her to get to specsavers.

This was a case of age before beauty