Angry Cyclist.

Cheeky40

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Is he an Indian guy? If so he was swearing at me once when I came out of a roundabout on the A34 near park side, although he wasn't so brave when I chased after him and gave him a piece of my mind.
Luckily for him it wasn't that time of the month, as I might have just knocked him off.
I'm sure I saw that a lady used this as an excuse in court once when she rammed into her ex husbands car. :D
 

Floss

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Is he an Indian guy? If so he was swearing at me once when I came out of a roundabout on the A34 near park side, although he wasn't so brave when I chased after him and gave him a piece of my mind.
Luckily for him it wasn't that time of the month, as I might have just knocked him off.
I'm sure I saw that a lady used this as an excuse in court once when she rammed into her ex husbands car. :D


The guy clearly has problems and yes first encounter can feel intimidating, but I don't think chasing after him or knocking him off his bike is going to help his condition, if anything it makes you appear as aggressive as him. Out of interest would you have chased him if he had a physical disability ?
 

Cheeky40

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The guy clearly has problems and yes first encounter can feel intimidating, but I don't think chasing after him or knocking him off his bike is going to help his condition, if anything it makes you appear as aggressive as him. Out of interest would you have chased him if he had a physical disability ?

How do you know he has genuine problems on your first encounter?
Unless of course you actually know him personally or have witnessed this behaviour before.
If he has genuine problems it is very sad that no one is providing him with the help he needs, because one day he might meet the wrong person who might do something stupid.
As far as I am aware he is only ever aggressive when on his bike.
I see him in town occasionally and he SEEMS perfectly normal and friendly, but maybe this isn't the case.

I wouldn't actually knock him off his bike, I was obviously joking! Hence the smiley face.

This was a couple of years ago or maybe even 3 and yes I had used to get really annoyed with people on the roads when they did something stupid, and this was an instant reaction as I had wanted to find out what I had done wrong.
I am used to him now as I see him on a regular basis doing the same to others and swerving in and out the traffic.

Every morning I encounter tonnes of people being aggressive. Are you saying that you are a saint, and have never got angry before.
I am however a lot calmer now and tend to just laugh at people who have road rage with myself as this definitely has more effect, and stops yourself from looking stupid, plus I think it's an age thing and having more experience on the roads, you get to have more patience and understand that mistakes can happen and people can be lost etc.
 
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Staffordian

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How do you know he has genuine problems on your first encounter?
Unless of course you actually know him personally or have witnessed this behaviour before.
If he has genuine problems it is very sad that no one is providing him with the help he needs, because one day he might meet the wrong person who might do something stupid.
As far as I am aware he is only ever aggressive when on his bike.
I see him in town occasionally and he SEEMS perfectly normal and friendly, but maybe this isn't the case.

I wouldn't actually knock him off his bike, I was obviously joking! Hence the smiley face.

This was a couple of years ago or maybe even 3 and yes I had used to get really annoyed with people on the roads when they did something stupid, and this was an instant reaction as I had wanted to find out what I had done wrong.
I am used to him now as I see him on a regular basis doing the same to others and swerving in and out the traffic.

Every morning I encounter tonnes of people being aggressive. Are you saying that you are a saint, and have never got angry before.
I am however a lot calmer now and tend to just laugh at people who have road rage with myself as this definitely has more effect, and stops yourself from looking stupid, plus I think it's an age thing and having more experience on the roads, you get to have more patience and understand that mistakes can happen and people can be lost etc.

Is he an Indian guy? If so he was swearing at me once when I came out of a roundabout on the A34 near park side, although he wasn't so brave when I chased after him and gave him a piece of my mind.
Luckily for him it wasn't that time of the month, as I might have just knocked him off.
I'm sure I saw that a lady used this as an excuse in court once when she rammed into her ex husbands car. :D

I did the same near halfords and he apologised to me.
Maybe you werent aggressive enough.
 

PeterD

ST16 Represent.
I am as unaggressive as they come, wrists of a small girl and I bruise like a peach, others are not so and I wonder if he has took a few hits due to first encounters. I was aware of him via this forum so it was a pleasant surprise when I got my first piss off/wanker from him.
 

db

#chaplife
How do you know he has genuine problems on your first encounter?
Unless of course you actually know him personally or have witnessed this behaviour before.
innit.. it's all very well saying "aw bless, he has 'problems'" etc, but if one were confronted with him unexpectedly, having no knowledge who he is or what is causing his behaviour, most people's immediate reaction would be to assume he is just a violent bloke being aggressive for the sake of it.. with the benefit of knowledge of the situation and/or hindsight i'm sure most people would react differently, but if i was walking along the road and this bloke appeared out of nowhere, if in that moment i thought he was going to get anywhere near my missus or my little girl i would not hesitate in knocking him off his bike and making sure he posed no threat..
 

Gareth

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Many arsehole cyclists shout similar to pedastrians in victoria park, especially over Victoria bridge which thin in width, it can be veryintimidating and they never slow down.

even though the park has a no cycling byelaw except of the path that runs along the river.

made me smile one slippery winters morning as a cyclists shouted at speed ' out my bloody way' to a number of pedestrians on the bridge, not taking into account the steep right incline off the bridge ( by bowling green) and his racer lost all grip and he went flying. As he lay clearly having felt it I laughed as nobody bothered too help or ask if he was ok. Well apart from when I said ' shouldn't be riding through the park' good times :)
 

captainpish

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I agree most cyclists who take themselves seriously enough to wear lycra do have massive chip on their shoulder when it comes to motorists, even though they are probably motorists themselves. It seems that donning lycra makes them aggressive, maybe its too tight around their scrotum and squeezes the testosterone from their grapes into their system? The gimps who ride 2 or 3 abreast in the road with the "feck you motorist we're busy chatting about the tour de france, you're gonna have to look at my arse for another 10 minutes whilst we tootle along at 15mph" attitude really wind me up.
 

Floss

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How do you know he has genuine problems on your first encounter?
Unless of course you actually know him personally or have witnessed this behaviour before.
If he has genuine problems it is very sad that no one is providing him with the help he needs, because one day he might meet the wrong person who might do something stupid.
As far as I am aware he is only ever aggressive when on his bike.
I see him in town occasionally and he SEEMS perfectly normal and friendly, but maybe this isn't the case.

I wouldn't actually knock him off his bike, I was obviously joking! Hence the smiley face.

This was a couple of years ago or maybe even 3 and yes I had used to get really annoyed with people on the roads when they did something stupid, and this was an instant reaction as I had wanted to find out what I had done wrong.
I am used to him now as I see him on a regular basis doing the same to others and swerving in and out the traffic.

Every morning I encounter tonnes of people being aggressive. Are you saying that you are a saint, and have never got angry before.
I am however a lot calmer now and tend to just laugh at people who have road rage with myself as this definitely has more effect, and stops yourself from looking stupid, plus I think it's an age thing and having more experience on the roads, you get to have more patience and understand that mistakes can happen and people can be lost etc.

If you'd read the previous posts prior to posting you would know he had problems, I take it you hadn't read them to make such comments that you would knock him off his bike? And no I'm no saint but I don't threaten to knock people off their bikes joke or no joke.
 

macabremagpie

Active Member
There is a bit of writing seemingly by said cyclist online (I don't want to post a link as it contains an email address...) in which he claims to suffer delusions and have brain abnormalities. Of course it could be someone else with the same name and location, but thought I'd mention.

If I get abuse from him these days (which I have recently) I just ignore him now, and most of the time I have earphones in so don't even catch it anyway, but I can totally understand why someone might chase him down etc under the right (or wrong... depending on how you look at it) circumstances.
 
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darben

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I've come across him twice! & , found his antics dangerous and intimidating he looked as if he was going out of his way to put himself and other road users in danger.
 

jpphotography

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I do feel sorry for him, but what worries me is that I have seen him driving a silver car (I think it is an Nissan Almera) around town recently, shouting at pedestrians as he goes. I just hope he doesn't harm himself or anyone else.
 

Cheeky40

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Ha ha, I am, ' honest '
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If you'd read the previous posts prior to posting you would know he had problems, I take it you hadn't read them to make such comments that you would knock him off his bike? And no I'm no saint but I don't threaten to knock people off their bikes joke or no joke.

No I didn't read ALL the other posts, just first one, as quite frankly I do not wish to or neither have the time to go through them all.
You 'must' a saint if you have never said anything similar in jest in your entire life, as I am sure many people have said things like ' I just want to smack him/her around the face' etc, although they never actually would.
 
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