Cyclist abuses woman after he rode two abreast.

[Cuchilo]

The driver sounded hot .

 

[davidphilips]

No. Its very easy NOT to get wound up about it. If I am still up on 2 wheels, you can beep at me all you want. I will just think you are a twxt. If you go off on one like the guy in the clip. You could end up on here. That guys life is going to be a misery for weeks. He will end up making a grovelling public apology and a feeble justification.

Or he could just do a Dominic Cummings and say he has nothing to apologise for and just move on from it?

 

[Vantage]

No. Its very easy NOT to get wound up about it. If I am still up on 2 wheels, you can beep at me all you want. I will just think you are a twxt. If you go off on one like the guy in the clip. You could end up on here. That guys life is going to be a misery for weeks. He will end up making a grovelling public apology and a feeble justification.

Maybe you wouldn't snap in certain situations but other people do. It's called losing your temper.
As I said earlier, we don't know exactly what happened prior to the video and we only have the lady and her friends word to go on.
How many times have we heard from a motorist "It wasn't my fault. I did no wrong"?

 

[Smokin Joe]

Maybe you wouldn't snap in certain situations but other people do. It's called losing your temper.

If you lose your temper because somebody bips a horn at you then you've got a problem.

 

[Vantage]

If you lose your temper because somebody bips a horn at you then you've got a problem.

Again, we don't know what else if anything happened along with or before the beeping.
Other incidents may have lead up to the bubble bursting.

 

[Cycleops]

I'm left wondering if Ron Pickering has taken up cycling?

You have to admit, there’s quite a similarity;

 

[CXRAndy]

Cyclists get confused about this, rule 66 of the Highway Code states:

• never ride more than two abreast, and ride in single file on narrow or busy roads and when riding round bends

So there is not an automatic right to ride two abreast, only where conditions allow.

One persons of conditions differ from another.

I invariably ride in the middle of the road 95% of the time whether A/B or country lane, I move over to the left when I deem it safe for me.

 

[Stephenite]

Other Grimsby news names cyclist killed on straight road on a sunday morning:

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/fatal-crash-cyclist-duncombe-street-2685904

 

[Blue Hills]

Although legally entitled to ride in the middle of the road, he was an absolute a55hole for behaving the way he did.

Good manners are free. I wondered if he'd be so arrogant if instead of a woman there was a big scary dude at the wheel. I doubt it

I hope they track him down and make him pay the damages to the car. Gives a bad reputation to us all.

Where's your evidence for the damage to the car?

 

[Blue Hills]

I wonder if the cyclist would have been so aggressive if the car were full of bodybuilders. Nasty bully.

Do you have a character profile of the woman?
Or any info on the nature of her honk at him?
There's friendly short hoots to let someone know you are there/coming thro, and then there's plain aggressive extended blasts. Which was it?
There's lots of bullies in the world.
Some of them, shock horror, are women.
Some of them are periodically pregnant.
Sorry, there's not enough info to go on in this story.

Personally I'm inclined to blame the terribly offended/social media hogging unborn child.
(Confession - i once chased down and shouted at a woman driving an elderly woman, very probably her dear old mum - she thought me mad i am sure but i felt in the right. More details available.)

 

[Slick]

Other Grimsby news names cyclist killed on straight road on a sunday morning:

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby-news/fatal-crash-cyclist-duncombe-street-2685904

That's not great is it, I already have my suspicions about what happened that I'll keep to myself but it does illustrate who the real loser is when cyclists have to interact with some drivers and can explain why some react the way they do at times.

Thoughts with the family.

 

[Binka]

We’re only seeing one side, which she has chosen to film and release. Maybe before she started filming she was stuck behind him honking her horn non stop, revving her engine and screaming abuse? The only thing I can say with certainty is that she was wrong saying he shouldn’t be in the middle of the carriageway.

 

[BigMeatball]

Where's your evidence for the damage to the car?

I said in another post that it does look a bit suspicious so keep quiet, ok?

So far it's only speculation and probably we'll never know the whole story but based on the limited recordings we've got, we can't say he's not at fault.

 

[BigMeatball]

We’re only seeing one side, which she has chosen to film and release. Maybe before she started filming she was stuck behind him honking her horn non stop, revving her engine and screaming abuse? The only thing I can say with certainty is that she was wrong saying he shouldn’t be in the middle of the carriageway.

So, Just based on the recording that has been released, do you justify the cyclist's behaviour?

 

[Drago]

Yes, but I'm sure the cyclist's behaviour would have been different and more civilized. He would have given the same message, but in a more polite way.

What about the fat that the female driver felt it ok to misuse the horn because she was safely ensconced withing a tonne or more of metal? Would she have been so horn happy with a hulking great giant Haystacks type driving a Hummer? I think not.

This superiority-domination syndrome works both ways, not conveniently for one person and then not for another.