Woman cyclist gets her own back ...

[rualexander]

Her scarf is an accident waiting to happen.

 

[sarahale]

Yes happens to me and I'm not attractive just in shape. Guys who think they are hilarious trying to provoke a reaction. Worst bit is you can't get away so just have to sit there and take it.

 

[winjim]

[QUOTE 4692771, member: 45"]It would not have happened if she were a he.[/QUOTE]
Or would it? Maybe they were just exploiting a perceived weakness. If the guys were just out for some aggro, might they not have taken it out on a male cyclist but just used some other trait to bully him with, colour, dress, whatever?

This argument is of course predicated on the assumption that the video is genuine.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

[QUOTE 4692771, member: 45"]It would not have happened if she were a he.[/QUOTE]

I get where Twickers is coming from; it's obvious from the personal pronoun that the cyclist is a woman so saying so in the title is redundant.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Is this a true representation of what women have to put up with?

Never to me in 6 years of commuting, but I'm not a young, pretty girl.
Got my fair share of abuse from taxi drivers and wvmen, from some women too, to be fair.
Alas, nothing ever remotely resembling romanticism, well, once a British Gas van man howled something that I could not understand ...

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

[QUOTE 4692771, member: 45"]It would not have happened if she were a he.[/QUOTE]
now you can read that several ways (she' wouldn't have been treated that way if she wasn't a woman or the thread title wouldn't specify man if she was a man... ...) but yes, I was being pedantic and it wasn't a dig... as for "if she were a he" that's got me humming Walk On The Wild Side.... doo doo doo doo doo do do do...

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

Film's fake, I reckon, but the story it tells is not so fake.

What makes it appear fake... if it is its well done (you can normally spot the fake ones because the filming, especially the sound, is 'too good' if you know what I mean)

 

[raleighnut]

I know a couple of girls who'd have dragged the guy out of the van and knocked 7 shades out of them.

 

[Lonestar]

What makes it appear fake... if it is its well done (you can normally spot the fake ones because the filming, especially the sound, is 'too good' if you know what I mean)

Why hasn't the motorbike fugged off?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Never to me in 6 years of commuting, but I'm not a young, pretty girl.

Awright darlin' fancy a bunk up? Oi oi saveloi! Yer luck's in tonight lavvah! I got a traaaaynsit an everyfin!

I'm quite irresistible as you can tell.

 

[theclaud]

Too good to be true

Speaking of which, van driver checks behind before opening his door...

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

The following biker arrives at the right moment, then follows more slowly than bikers tend to ride, finally catching up with the action to deliver the punchline. Too good to be true

There are loads of videos where the driver arrives at 'the right moment' - by definition we just don't see the millions where they don't... then he follows fairly slowly because he's just witnessed an incident and knows he has it on camera - at the end he appears to be looking for teh cyclist - perhaps to tell her he has evidence... that's probably how I'd behave in the same situation...

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

Why hasn't the motorbike fugged off?

See post above...

 

[Lonestar]

See post above...

Good point.I'm tired/groggy and missed that.

 

[winjim]

Is the original footage somewhere, perhaps on the moped rider's youtube account, or does it only exist with a "viralthread" watermark?