What a bunch of complete pricks - as has been said utterly disgraceful behaviour. Glad there were some sort of repercussions for those responsible.
This raises the interesting point of passing horses (as I had to the other day) - wide is obviously a given but I wondered about speed.. I know horses don't like noises behind them and I wonder whether they're more likely to be spooked by the sound of something relatively quiet (drivetrain / tyres / freewheel) ominiously creeping closer and whether it'd be better to press on just to get past them. Obviously the difference in the speeds cars and bikes are capable of is significant and what's considered slow for a car (say 20mph) is less-so for a bike..
This raises the interesting point of passing horses (as I had to the other day) - wide is obviously a given but I wondered about speed.. I know horses don't like noises behind them and I wonder whether they're more likely to be spooked by the sound of something relatively quiet (drivetrain / tyres / freewheel) ominiously creeping closer and whether it'd be better to press on just to get past them. Obviously the difference in the speeds cars and bikes are capable of is significant and what's considered slow for a car (say 20mph) is less-so for a bike..