Got swore at today.

[pes]

Nob in passenger seat shouted at me to "eff off you C".
What's that all about?

 

[Maz]

Hmm. Did you do anything to upset him/her?

 

[BentMikey]

I'm betting it was unprovoked. It's not so unusual - see the myths and rebuttals topic.

 

[Origamist]

Were you riding this pedal cab:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kSNVKrktK...00-h/bicyclebattle_giant-vagina-bike-taxi.jpg

Warning: NWS

 

[pes]

Hmm. Did you do anything to upset him/her?

No nothing at all.
Going dead straight in the cycle lane.

Mate tells me it happens to him all the time. He has also had full pop cans & bottles lobbed at him.
Still don't understand it.

 

[Chappy]

Sometimes get stupid people shouting as they drive past trying to scare me. Keep meaning to take a picture on my phone but never have it in my pocket at the time

 

[Moose]

I have been verbally abused a couple of times - I linked it to wearing an 'England' football training shirt.

 

[psi friday]

I had a guy step into the road in front of me and shout fcuk off the other week. I get abuse when Im out running too. Ive had lit ciggies chucked at me as well as plastic bottles. Its usually some young moron thinking they are hard with their mates. I never let it bother me. They cant be that hard if they abuse you from a moving car.

 

[gratts]

I'd add a correlation with 4X4s also. Woman in one told me to "get off the ****ing road" yesterday

 

[BentMikey]

If you have a helmet video camera, then you can deflate their attitude very quickly by telling them they're being filmed...

 

[ianrauk]

All part of cycle commuting life unfortunately.

 

[Fab Foodie]

All part of cycle commuting life unfortunately.

Unfortunately true.

Whilst you have no control over some of the sad ****s that society produces, you can control how you respond to these situations and keeping calm in difficult circumstances is probably the best thing you can do.

It's a bummer really, we shouldn't have to put up with such shoot.

 

[ianrauk]

User1314,.. it has to be a cold day in hell before I get the train to work instead of cycling..(unless I am out after work for beers)

 

[fossyant]

Pumped fit cyclist....vs......fato in car..... hmmmm....bloody good job most of us are just getting to work/home as fast as we can and training........ very good job most of us are even tempered......

 

[BentMikey]

Besides which, the potential for positive social interactions is waaaay higher than the few knuckle draggers out there. I love chatting to other cyclists, cabbies, saying morning/evening to walkers I know by sight, etc.