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Sounds like a great idea to me

Losing battle? ☹️☹️

+1

Ooh! I can feel another helmet thread coming on

Get a real bike!! If you spend all day in front of a computer screen, why on earth would you want to do it on a bike??

Highly entertaining how people get so excited. Surely a bit of leeway is all that is needed - I work in the Taunton area, and have a phone number to ring for dispensation to park on the event of an emergency. Always seemed to me to be a very reasonable way to proceed.

Uuuuugh!!

It's not a Them and Us problem between cyclists and <insert other transport-using group of choice here> , it's a problem between reasonable people (be they on bikes, foot, in cars, whatever) and abject tossers. The majority if the pedestrian public, dog-walkers included, are IME entirely reasonable...

Fantastic, let me know how you get on with them

I was told i was not a proper cyclist and that people like me make life hard for all other cyclists .... because i don't wear a helmet. :roll: I wear a helmet most of the time I'm on a bike but on a short trip to visit a neighbour I went without and was told to "wear a helmet" by a passin...

Still sounds a bit strange to me! I’m always concerned when people complain and are then reticent about the actual details. I’m not sure how touching someone’s shoulder constitutes a collision! Call me suspicious, but.....

It all depends on your definition of 'cyclist'. I'm willing to bet that 10 March was the first time that the assailant had been on a bicycle for years, and it's probably the last (unless he decides to go out and repeat his actions). At a guess : a driver who got fined and/or lost his licence after ...

Agree! Weird that someone eminent in his field, therefore assumed to be ‘relatively intelligent’ can hold such views. Read about a judge a while ago who felt that ‘in the interests of safety’ cyclists shouldn’t cycle on the road! Don’t know quite how you combat this sort of attitude

As had been said, nobody has any idea about what could have happened prior to the incident. The injured guy could have started something way back!

Sad, but true! It doesn’t take much for people to be rapidly disillusioned! A bit like stereotyping drivers/cyclist et al. One encounter that effects you negatively, and the assumption is that every other interaction will confirm your conclusion. Incidents like this must do a disproportionate amount...