It's not just motor vehicles you know....

[Grouchfungus]

Was out on my bike last night on the main road.

A cyclist pulls straight out in front of me from a side turning without looking.

The guy looks over his shoulder and lets rip with "you c***. trying to ride up my f****** a*** are you?" He continues with more similar expletives and then offers to beat the crap out of me.

To say I was a bit taken aback was an understatement. Normally I'm ready for trouble with buses cars lorries etc and am ready with my comebacks.

 

[yello]

The guy clearly has problems of some kind. Ignoring is the best - and safest - option I reckon.

 

[just4fun]

what a nutcase

 

[Grouchfungus]

The guy clearly has problems of some kind. Ignoring is the best - and safest - option I reckon.

I know you're probably right. But it still leaves you wound up, thinking that if you'd booted the guy off his bike you'd feel better.

 

[Arch]

I know you're probably right. But it still leaves you wound up, thinking that if you'd booted the guy off his bike you'd feel better.

Yeah, you can't help the flood of adrenalin you get from being threatened like that. Nutcase.

If you were surer of your fitness than me, I guess you'd overtake and ride off into the distance laughing,..

 

[Joe24]

Just ride past him, and when your back wheel is by his front one, swing in on him.
You will take him down, while you can just carry on safe in the knowledge that this nut case is still picking himself up and wont be able to get you.

Or failing that, i would of just started to shout at him before he shouted at me, or just overtook him as he pulled out and not said anything.

 

[Will1985]

What do you expect? You were wheelsucking without permission

Keep doing it for a mile or two and then leave him for dust.

 

[semislickstick]

"Careful now and that sort of thing". Booting him off his bike sounds very similar to the everyday crap we usually get from motorists "teach him a lesson"
Maybe a 'watch it mate', when he turned out into you, so he knows he turned into you and not the other way around. Then use him to slip stream if he wasn't going painfully slow.

 

[Crankarm]

Those with Airzounds, would you have used yours on him?

 

[Black Sheep]

To say I was a bit taken aback was an understatement. Normally I'm ready for trouble with buses cars lorries etc and am ready with my comebacks.

"i just love the smell of your farts" would have worked well in this situation or,

"sorry, i thought you were my boss, his monthly a**e kissing is overdue"

 

[fossyant]

Should have passed him and shouted in a camp voice 'chase me' then shot off..... (oops not quite the correct term)

 

[Joe24]

Those with Airzounds, would you have used yours on him?

If i had one i would of. So i didnt have to hear him going more then anything, i would of kept my finger on it and gone past him so i didnt have to listen to the rubbish.
I would of just swerved around him in the first place though then sit behind him.

 

[Joe24]

Should have passed him and shouted in a camp voice 'chase me' then shot off..... (oops not quite the correct term)

Careful now Fossyant, people might come after you for saying that term

 

[thomas]

Those with Airzounds, would you have used yours on him?

If I saw him going to pull out without looking, or I thought he might, at that point I might give a LIGHT tap to make him turn his head, see me and preferably stop if he shouldn't have gone.

If I didn't expect him to pull out/see him/whatever and he did pull out without looking it really depends on the situation so I wouldn't like to comment on this one. I will use my airzound after things that have frightened me - both to make the person aware they did something stupid and it lets out my aggression a bit so I don't brew on it for the rest of the ride. This is more for vehicles just because they're generally very good sound insulators so yelling probably won't get heard.

With another cyclists it would be more likely that I'd just make a polite comment as going past. When he started mouthing off I'd of probably just told him to piss off and fuss about him jumping out of the junction without looking, then overtake him and leave him in my dust (then a quick left turn and hide as I regain my energy from the overtake ).

For the definitive answer, pull out at a junction without looking when I'm cycling along and you'll find out my true reaction ...do it a few times and you can call it research