GrumpyGregry
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Getting into a fight
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Big Nick
Senior Member
I'm trying to learn to tame my temper at the constant disrespect you get from other road users as a cyclist.
A few regular daily examples from my commute
1) motorists who overtake you and immediately turn left in your path
2) motorists who don't bother to look and pull out
3) motorists who do look, see you, ignore you and pull out anyway
4) pedestrians especially teenage school kids who cross the road straight in front of you expecting you to stop
Someone said recently on here something along the lines of 'being in the right is no guarantee of safety' and how true that is to the cyclist.
A few regular daily examples from my commute
1) motorists who overtake you and immediately turn left in your path
2) motorists who don't bother to look and pull out
3) motorists who do look, see you, ignore you and pull out anyway
4) pedestrians especially teenage school kids who cross the road straight in front of you expecting you to stop
Someone said recently on here something along the lines of 'being in the right is no guarantee of safety' and how true that is to the cyclist.
burndust
Parts unknown...baby
Yup...part of being a cyclist
cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
- Location
- Land of confusion
Defend myself? Sure .
Go looking for a fight over name calling , i have better things to do with my time frankly.
Go looking for a fight over name calling , i have better things to do with my time frankly.
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Yes, in Australia (and the UK too, judging by some threads on these fora), it's socially acceptable to show prejudice towards cyclists. Try showing prejudice based on sex, race, religion, etc. and the condemnation is universal and swift. But with cyclists, the minority group effect kicks in.
I love cycling and I feel part of a family when I'm on this forum. I don't care about racism because I've done quite well and I don't blame anyone. But if someone spat in my face and drive off. I'm gunna take down the number plate and hunt them down.
Or if I see David Moyes (only joking)
Or if I see David Moyes (only joking)
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
I had a similar one to that happen to me when setting off to the station for a FNRttC. Four 20-something youths decided to cross and then loiter in the road as I approached. Three of them scattered when they realised I wasn't altering course or stopping. The one left there ended up with a very hurt arm, screaming in pain "why did you do that?", as I'd braced my shoulder as I approached. I shouted over my (unhurt) shoulder that it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't deliberately got in my way, and the way his mates were laughing at him meant they probably got the message not to try it again.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Fighting at 39 years old, shameful!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I got into a fight at school when I was nine. I punched first. He hit back a lot harder very soon after. It was a valuable lesson that I have not forgotten.
Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
- Location
- Smurfette's Kitchen
Totally vile, but in my experience fortunately quite rare. I had a similar experience when someone spat a load of some drink or other at me. It caught my glove and handlebar, but fortunately I had a bottle of water with me and rinsed it off. It was on my commute, and on that route it's quite common for me to catch people at the lights, but luckily they turned off before the lights, as it might have got quite ugly if I'd caught them.No, but if I could have got my hands on the passenger in a white van who leaned out of his window, smiled at me and then deliberately gobbed thick green phlegm into my face, I would have been sorely tempted to!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Water pistol filled with piss coming off the Cromwell Road, west London, last year. Passenger leaned out and got me in the face. It look me a minute or two to try to understand why anybody would want to do that. I didn't give it too much thought a bit later. It left no scars.
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
After a nifty piece of google-fu, I'm pretty sure that giving verbal abuse to a cyclist would constitute an offence under section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986. Does anyone know if anyone's been prosecuted under these circumstances?* It's a shame when this sort of thing is described as "part of being a cyclist", but then it also seems rather petty to take someone to court just for calling you a w*nker.**
*Would require recording of the offence as evidence I s'pose. One for the militant cycle cammers.
**I would probably make an exception for the racism as described in the OP
*Would require recording of the offence as evidence I s'pose. One for the militant cycle cammers.
**I would probably make an exception for the racism as described in the OP
Moodyman
Legendary Member
Though, I am not afraid of rolling up my sleeves, my job requires an unblemished record so I avoid quarrels.
But on this one occasion whilst riding with my two daughters (both then under 8) along the local canal, this woman refused to move to the side causing one of the girls to wobble around her and almost fall into the water. Her issue was that though the path was shared use, cyclists should move over for peds. Had she not been a female she almost certainly would have ended up in the canal herself.
But on this one occasion whilst riding with my two daughters (both then under 8) along the local canal, this woman refused to move to the side causing one of the girls to wobble around her and almost fall into the water. Her issue was that though the path was shared use, cyclists should move over for peds. Had she not been a female she almost certainly would have ended up in the canal herself.
I would definitely have fallen off my bike if I did that!
