lechatnoir Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Hair-raising stuff. While I'm saddened by your experience, I'm stoked that your quick thinking resulted in you being safe and still having your bike
Wannabe Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you got away relatively unscathed. Looks like your "fight or flight" response is biased more to the fight side. Good for you for not giving up on your possessions without a fight. I always cycle with my pepper spray canister tucked into my cycling pants legs. Easy to get to in an emergency (even when on the bike) and it will give you just that bit extra time to be able to defend yourself when needed. no fumbling to pull it out of your shirt pocket.
cfcjim Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Very pleased to hear you're alright, that was an ordeal. Please, as Dr V12Man mentioned, see a counselor, the anger will need to be dissipated.
Christofison Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you got away relatively unscathed. Looks like your "fight or flight" response is biased more to the fight side. Good for you for not giving up on your possessions without a fight. I always cycle with my pepper spray canister tucked into my cycling pants legs. Easy to get to in an emergency (even when on the bike) and it will give you just that bit extra time to be able to defend yourself when needed. no fumbling to pull it out of your shirt pocket.Ditto on the pepper spray.
EmJayZA Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Crazy stuff. Glad you are ok. Sad that criminals these days can be openly violent and not fear any reprisal.
splat Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you are OK.Terrible experience! I would also fight back a bit if this was my bike.What a machine!
GrahamS2 Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you got away in one piece. This is the exact reason I always ride with a knife.
Pure Savage Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 This morning just before 6am I went for a ride on my trailbike. Plenty of traffic out and on a 'safe' route.Planning to ride from Somerset West on the R44 past Lord Charles, and then do a 20km return trip before work, just a quick spin.Around 300 or 400m up the road two guys are walking towards me - they've been walking down the road since I've started the climb, I took note, but nothing suspicious about them on first glance. Around 20m from them they go wide and one walks towards the yellow line, one towards the shoulder, meaning that I have to pass between them, since there's plenty of cars on the road, so I can't cut into the road. Small warning lights go on, but I dismiss it as being paranoid. As I ride between them, they both grab me. I almost break away and they become jittery and frantically grabbing at me and my bike. Smallish 20+ year old guy with dreadlocks and a bigger guy, short hair or shaven head probably around 1.8m wearing a dark hoodie (brown or green) with a massive logo on the front. I'm currently riding flats on my trailbike, and so when I pop off at least I'm not connected to the bike. They both grab at the bike and I get a hold of the rear wheel so we enter a tug of war. I realize after a second or two that there's no way these guys are just going to let go and so I do a quick check of their hands, and that's when I spot the saw in the one guy's hand. One of those pointy saws (lekker rusted) with the crooked handle used to do branch trimming. At that stage I decide that it is not worth it, so I let go of the bike and start running away from them. The guy with the saw actually starts chasing me with the saw down the road. I run in front of an oncoming car (the last one of the batch that crossed the green), so I'm pretty desperate.The gentleman stops and forms a barrier between myself and saw guy. But saw guy does not run away, he stands there looking at me. I ask the guy if I can get in his car and then saw guy starts walking away.At this stage I see the other guy is still up the road and now mounted my bike heading towards us (down the hill). I go on instinct and rugby tackle him. Note: I'm not a rugby player and tbh a guy on a bike carrying momentum gives you one helluva shot, but luckily take him down and quite hard on the road, and as he jumps up and tries to run, I get an ankle tap in for good measure. When he goes down again, I am considering a punch when I notice saw guy running towards us. I grab the bike, bars all skew from the fall and run up the road a couple of meters. The guy that I tackled luckily seemed rattled enough to stop the pursuit for the time being. He now joins saw guy a couple of meters down the road, and they just stand there nonchalantly waiting for the car to go before they come after me again. At this stage a bakkie comes up (AH building Supplies), the first vehicle over the new green light, and so I also stop him. After he stops they turn around and walk down the road (in no rush whatsoever).The bakkie gent (Gerrit) is nice enough to pop my bike in the canopy and give me a lift home. Flippen hell, what a morning! So blessed that only my knees are scraped from the tackle.Flip man, its the bloody wild west!! Congrats on the tackle, better than the Boks at the moment.
Andrew_Smith Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Hectic stuff man! Wow, glad you are OK and that you could retrieve your bike.
Wet Ears Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Yoh, good for you! Cannot believe how brazen these scum are!
Furbz Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you are ok.really glad you managed to get your own back! good on you! i certainly do not have the balls for that! Sad to say it, the sentiment in my riding group now is its not "IF" you are going to be bike jacked, but "WHEN".following that conversation we realised that over the years more than 50% of our group had been bike jacked in the last few years. all in JHB.
hansolo Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you managed to get your bike back without being stabbed/sawn. Crime is getting out of hand, hope we get a speedy solution.
TOPJOLR645 Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 this is so ***. I ride that route all the time, even the R44 is now fair game to these scumbags. Glad you "donerd" the oke.
Rouxenator Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Glad you're OK, and hats off for fighting back! Almost left home this morning without my pepper spray, was about to get on the bike. Never ride without it.
Stretch Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 Holy balls! Thank goodness you are ok. Please please tell me you were wearing a HRM...I wanna see those stats!
Butterbean Posted January 23, 2018 Posted January 23, 2018 So effing crazy... My regular route and honestly have never even considered it a safety concern... Wide shoulder, loads of cars, fenced off from most *** and in the middle of the suburbs... Really really doesn't sit well with me and I'm so sorry you had to actually go through this ***... Hopefully the bike wasn't too hurt - while it's crazy to fight back, well done on doing so well while involved and staying unhurt. Sad that it takes people some effort to actually stop and help!!! Fork... Good luck on the physical and mental recovery... And thanks for the heads up!
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