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[benb]

Cycling home last night, dark but well lit roads. Dual carriageway and light traffic, so plenty of room for drivers to pull out into the other lane to overtake.

One car gives me a long beep on the horn as he comes past (but not a close overtake at all). I couldn't see what, if any, gestures he was making.

Obviously I catch him at the next lights. He's in the right lane, so I pull up on his passenger side. I rap the window to ask him why he beeped me. He jut sits there looking straight ahead and ignoring me. I call out "why did you beep me back there". No response - he doesn't even look. Scared, I think, that I was going to beat him up.

If you're going to do something like that, you should at least have the courage of your convictions and actually defend your actions!

Made me laugh anyway.

 

[hackbike 666]

Not really worth it though is it?

Saying that some fat motorcyclist gave me the hump at the Waldorf Hotel just off of Waterloo Bridge and I wanted a "word" with him....He should know it's difficult enough around there for cyclists without some fat motorcyclist up your arse...

 

[benb]

I wasn't really angry, I just wanted to know why he had beeped me, so I could correct his misconception.

 

[downfader]

If he had accidentally applied the horn he could have just put his hands up and gone "sorry, my mistake!"

I'm guessing he's gone back to his mates and is bragging about this run in he had with a cyclist, how big and brave he was etc etc. I've had that a few times over the years.

 

[Moodyman]

Some d1ck threw a Haribo type gummy sweet at me. Passenger window was open but nobody in passenger seat so it must have been driver.

Sweet hit me on the back and dropped onto the top of the rack. It stuck there until I got home - noticed when I removed my pannier. Must have had it in his mouth judging by the way it stuck to my rack.

Sometimes I don't get it. It's not even funny. Yet to catch one b8stard at next set of lights though.

 

[Plax]

He beeped you because a) you had the audacity to be on the road, b) he thought it was funny, c) he wanted to scare you or d) all of those reasons.
I had some twunt beep me for no reason a few days back. I think they do it because they can. Mine looked like a boy racer thinking it would be funny and show off to his mates by making a cyclist jump by beeping at them.

 

[alp1950]

Quiet, wide country road BMW coming in opposite direction and entirely unprovoked the driver lowers his window and screams abuse. ???Why.

 

[chillyuk]

Because he is a BMW driver, a synonym for a twat.

 

[lit]

I actually came across a nice BMW driver today, was waiting for him to take his turn off at a roundabout, I was trying not to have to stop and he waved me to go on, when he could have just drove around me, rare but nice moment.

 

[hackbike 666]

Yeah they aren't all bad.....Obviously.

 

[Arfcollins]

Because he is a BMW driver, a synonym for a twat.

What a silly thing to say.

 

[Peter10]

What a silly thing to say.

Well said. Heaven forbid someone buying a BMW because they want one.

 

[Maz]

One car gives me a long beep on the horn as he comes past (but not a close overtake at all). I couldn't see what, if any, gestures he was making.

You should've beeped him back with an Airzound, mate. I've just ordered 3 from Wiggle! They're the dogs wotsits!

 

[Maz]

Because he is a BMW driver, a synonym for a twat.

Yeah, that's it. Just like all cyclists are red-light jumping, roadtax-dodging scum.

 

[Chutzpah]

Quiet, wide country road BMW coming in opposite direction and entirely unprovoked the driver lowers his window and screams abuse. ???Why.

I had a silver van driver lean out of his window and yell 'tiiiiiiiiiit' at me the other day. He was driving in the other direction too (and no, definitely never seen him before). Like you say, simply... why?

Still, if it makes them feel big and clever....