Holding onto people's cars - do you do it?

[400bhp]

Absolutely not and if a cyclist leaned on my car I would go nuts! Think how you would feel if someone came and leant a cluncky old BSO against your +£1k roadbike then consider that most cars cost around £15k or more. If you need to stop just put a foot down or lean on street furniture if you need to. Touching or leaning on someone elses car is just asking for trouble and shows no respect at all.

Or twatstand

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

Never - I always unclip as I feel safer and steadier on take off

 

[green1]

If someone insists on cluttering our road space with their semi mobile obstacle why not? Especially in a situation where, were they not in the way, I'd be able to ride on uninconvenienced.

So i suppose if a queue of car is behind you its ok for them to give you a push to speed you up as you are slowing down the flow of traffic?

 

[Belfastox]

I don't do it often but I do do it sometimes with lorries and buses.

 

[Boris Bajic]

Interesting that none of us have admitted to it.

I think that may be because most would consider it rude and slightly presumptive behaviour.

I've never seen it done; I imagine most people haven't. Cyclists tend to be a civilised bunch.

I'm quite pleased that no-one's admitted to it and I find that quite pleasing. For all the comedy posturing about material fetishism in slightly jokey earlier posts, the fact that I've never seen it done suggests that most cyclists think it rude.

 

[Gary E]

I'd ask them very politely to kindly remove their hand from my car....

...but only once!

 

[RedRider]

Ewww. I wouldn't put me hand on a dirty car.

 

[lulubel]

I occasionally touch people's cars with my hands. I find a decent thump on the roof or window often gives the fcuktard within some indication that they are way too close.

Same here. If it's close enough that I can thump it, it's too close.

 

[Primal Scream]

It depends who as got to close to whom, if someone thumps my roof then they can expect a thump in the mouth in return and the sex of the roof thumper wont matter a jot, sexual equality and all that.

That said you are welcome to lean on my motor as i dont give a tossd.

 

[BentMikey]

Is that tit for twat, or is it unwarranted escalation?

 

[al78]

If you want me to respect your artificially extended personal space, be that at your car's surface or some notional position beyond, try affording me a similar space first.

You regularly get drivers touching your bike then?

 

[theclaud]

You regularly get drivers touching your bike then?

Well, the verdigris finish is famously alluring...

 

[slowmotion]

A couple of years ago I was at the stop line with a red traffic light. To my left was a big red double-decker bus. I was turning right, he was going straight ahead. It was December, cold, and pouring with rain in London. An ambulance, with siren blaring came round the corner so I shuffled the bike over to my left to make more road space for it. I came close to losing my balance during my lateral shuffle and reached out to steady myself against the bus.....and met air. My hand went straight in through the open driver's window and hit his arm.

Profuse apologies followed, but he took my assault in good humour.

"It must be miserable to be on a bike in this weather"
"No, it's great fun actually, but I would have said the same thing eighteen months ago."
He have gave me a big grin and wished me well as the lights changed.
It was a rather wonderful "ships in the night" exchange.

 

[Jezston]

If someone put rollers on their front bumper and gently pushed me up a difficult hill I probably wouldn't mind too much.

 

[al78]

is that what I wrote?

Yes.

You said "If you want me to respect your artificially extended personal space, be that at your car's surface or some notional position beyond, try affording me a similar space first" as a justification for holding on to other peoples cars.

That is a "you do it to me therefore I'll do it to you" argument, so the implication is that if you are using that sort of argument to justify touching a drivers car, then drivers must be touching your bike.