super-seagulls
Soup! Why didn’t I get any Soup?
No he gets ignored for pointing out the drivers Highway Code rule breach. He gets lamped for chasing after him, banging on his car window and shouting obscenities at him, I imagine!
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Road rage video. Which side are you on - Team Bike or Team car?
- Thread starter Billy the Fish
- Start date
No he gets ignored for pointing out the drivers Highway Code rule breach. He gets lamped for chasing after him, banging on his car window and shouting obscenities at him, I imagine!
brightonrock
Dodgy Hamstrings
- Jan 1, 2008
- 2,482
If the cyclist was weaving in and out of lanes or running lights then he's being a tw*t and will eventually get hit by a car and probably deserve it. But in this case the cyclist is stationary, whilst the car is cutting into a cycle lane at a red light to get what, a 1-second head start when the lights change? The cyclist is 100% right to call him on it, although why he chases him down is another matter. However, the driver getting out and whacking him is proof of what a cock the bloke is. He's in the wrong and when called on it, he knows it, but with no actual defence to offer he resorts to a punch. Brilliant. A lot of cyclists take their lives for granted in the city but this bloke, other than swearing at the driver, has done nothing wrong in the laws of the road. It saddens me that so many people will instantly jump to the defence of this motorist when the guy is so clearly in the wrong.
If you were driving and got cut up at a roundabout, then ended up next to the culprit at the next junction, would you be fine if person then got out and smacked you in the face for him cutting you up? No. So why is it any different for a cyclist? Because a lot of people are self-obsessed bullies who think they have any right to do anything they want on the road, and a cyclist is an easy target.
If you were driving and got cut up at a roundabout, then ended up next to the culprit at the next junction, would you be fine if person then got out and smacked you in the face for him cutting you up? No. So why is it any different for a cyclist? Because a lot of people are self-obsessed bullies who think they have any right to do anything they want on the road, and a cyclist is an easy target.
StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
Cyclist aggressively knocks on car window 'effing and blinding at the driver.
Driver gets out and lamps cyclist.
Cyclist whimpers off as he can give it but can't take it.
Evens.
Ceej
Active member
Two prats. One on a bike and one in a car. Some people are just wound up before they get on their bikes in the morning and some are wound up before getting in their cars. In this case I couldn't help smiling when the shouty cyclist got lamped. Deary me.
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,642
I'm with Team 'not an ********'
The cyclist really pisses me off, getting all indignant and self righteous but when it comes to an actual confrontation what does he do? ****ing nothing. If you're going to bang on the window and shout whatever it was he shouted (cant be assed to watch the video again) then be prepared to get punched and throw a couple back.
Pevenseagull
Anti-greed coalition
- Jul 20, 2003
- 19,642
'aris toil
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
car parked in the bike space = illegal
symyjym
Banned
The cyclist was holding up traffic and didn't even notice the lights turned green?
The light was red when the cyclists stopped, it was red when the car pulled into the cycle box, it was red when the cyclist backed up to the car. The light changes as the cyclist is trying to point out to the driver he is in the cycle box, that car pulls away when the light goes green, the cyclists follow. There was no holding up of the traffic.
You're on your own here BoF.
We covered this in Geeks, when it came out, my opinions haven't changed.
That is not true.
Matey screams 'f*****g prick you nearly ran over my bike'.
pastafarian
Well-known member
This is no time for fence sitting Hippy! Vote car! You know you want to.
BadFish
Huge Member
- Oct 19, 2003
- 17,121
What have his employers got to do with this?
dougdeep
New member
Anyone that drives a BMW is at fault.