Road Rage!

[HelloRyanFowler]

The ride is tomorrow (https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/175774-road-rage/?p=3318323). Spread the word. Come along. There will be vouchers up for grabs courtesy of Crown Cycles. Remember to pin a page to your shirt showing that you are not just a cyclist. I’ll be going with “dad”.

 

With regards to the motorist: we sat down for a beer yesterday, shot the breeze, and parted amicably. Nice guy. And not just a motorist.

[Long Wheel Base]

The ride is tomorrow (https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/175774-road-rage/?p=3318323). Spread the word. Come along. There will be vouchers up for grabs courtesy of Crown Cycles. Remember to pin a page to your shirt showing that you are not just a cyclist. I’ll be going with “dad”.

 

With regards to the motorist: we sat down for a beer yesterday, shot the breeze, and parted amicably. Nice guy. And not just a motorist.

Did he apolagise for being a d!ck

[Escapee..]

The ride is tomorrow (https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/175774-road-rage/?p=3318323). Spread the word. Come along. There will be vouchers up for grabs courtesy of Crown Cycles. Remember to pin a page to your shirt showing that you are not just a cyclist. I’ll be going with “dad”.

 

With regards to the motorist: we sat down for a beer yesterday, shot the breeze, and parted amicably. Nice guy. And not just a motorist.

 

 

And that was that?

 

Sounds like a beautiful story

[Sven137]

Assaulting someone is a game changer... .. and letting off this bully / thug so lightly is a sin......

[Zatopek]

The ride is tomorrow (https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/175774-road-rage/?p=3318323). Spread the word. Come along. There will be vouchers up for grabs courtesy of Crown Cycles. Remember to pin a page to your shirt showing that you are not just a cyclist. I’ll be going with “dad”.

 

With regards to the motorist: we sat down for a beer yesterday, shot the breeze, and parted amicably. Nice guy. And not just a motorist.

I tip my hat to you.

 

This effort have a bigger chance of making a permanent impact on his (and most likely his close friends& family) behavior towards cyclist than what any amount of shouting and zapping will do.

[Patchelicious]

The ride is tomorrow (https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/175774-road-rage/?p=3318323). Spread the word. Come along. There will be vouchers up for grabs courtesy of Crown Cycles. Remember to pin a page to your shirt showing that you are not just a cyclist. I’ll be going with “dad”.

 

With regards to the motorist: we sat down for a beer yesterday, shot the breeze, and parted amicably. Nice guy. And not just a motorist.

While I think you are a bigger man than most for your approach to this, I am not sure I am ok with not pressing charges? Many a murderer have been "nice guys" too.

 

Now I am not comparing the crimes, but what if this guy assaults somebody else now? I suppose its the fine line between personal choice and societal obligations....

 

Edit: Im not judging, Im just try to grapple with it. 

[NickGM]

The ride is tomorrow (https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/175774-road-rage/?p=3318323). Spread the word. Come along. There will be vouchers up for grabs courtesy of Crown Cycles. Remember to pin a page to your shirt showing that you are not just a cyclist. I’ll be going with “dad”.

 

With regards to the motorist: we sat down for a beer yesterday, shot the breeze, and parted amicably. Nice guy. And not just a motorist.

Well done and thanks for setting a good example. I agree with other comments, this is the most likely thing to change his behaviour and probably took more courage than the "I just would have klapped him" approach, which is actually a fear/fight or flight response.

 

I have a dog that used to get really aggressive with other dogs. He acted the toughest when he was most scared. And if I tried to correct his behaviour with further aggressive action (eg: pull leash, reprimand), it just made him worse the next time. He only got better when I changed my approach, which was to patiently ignore aggression and instead reward good behaviour, to the extent that he can now play nicely with other dogs. True story.

 

We are not that different from dogs. 

[HelloRyanFowler]

If someone assaults you in the traffic and you want a simple and easy solution, I would recommend pedalling off to your nearest police station and laying an assault charge. Done. Then you can go home, justifiably rant about motorists, and forget about it in a day or two. (I guess there will be some later admin with the courts.) Arguably, any cyclist in this position has a responsibility to the cycling community to do this – lots of you have said so. But I’m with Zatopek: I too think this has more chance of making a permanent impact. Case in point: CapeTalk has just picked up on this. It looks like I will be briefly on air before the ride tomorrow and again on Sunday morning. That’s a lot of listeners who might be a bit more thoughtful when next passing a cyclist.

[Reg Lizard]

He might have realised that he is in big trouble and therefore his changed behavior. The real question is whether the fact that he got away with it this time will be a deterrent tomorrow when he is confronted with the same situation or will he think that he got away with it once, why not again!

 

I guess that it all boils down to whether the person that was assaulted is happy with the outcome.

[cfcjim]

He might have realised that he is in big trouble and therefore his changed behavior. The real question is whether the fact that he got away with it this time will be a detergent tomorrow when he is confronted with the same situation or will he think that he got away with it once, why not again!

 

I guess that it all boils down to whether the person that was assaulted is happy with the outcome.

Your Autocorrect hopes he'll clean up his behaviour.

[Escapee..]

While I think you are a bigger man than most for your approach to this. I am not sure I am ok with not pressing charges? Many a murderer have been "nice guys" too.

 

Now I am not comparing the crimes, but what if this guy assaults somebody else now?

 

Some people will take this as a big learning experience and some okes will forget this happened in a day or two and will be back to his old ways again

[koukie]

If someone assaults you in the traffic and you want a simple and easy solution, I would recommend pedalling off to your nearest police station and laying an assault charge. Done. Then you can go home, justifiably rant about motorists, and forget about it in a day or two. (I guess there will be some later admin with the courts.) Arguably, any cyclist in this position has a responsibility to the cycling community to do this – lots of you have said so. But I’m with Zatopek: I too think this has more chance of making a permanent impact. Case in point: CapeTalk has just picked up on this. It looks like I will be briefly on air before the ride tomorrow and again on Sunday morning. That’s a lot of listeners who might be a bit more thoughtful when next passing a cyclist.

Your approach to this is mind blowing. Well done! You are actually trying to make a change how motorists react towards cyclists.  

[Eugene]

There's a Bully doing the rounds and my son's school. His parents have been called in, his teachers have addressed it with him and he still carries on beating other kid.

 

He got stuck into my son some time back and punched him a couple of times. My son was the first kid to fight back. He had Mr Bully in tears. Now he is **** scared of my son. He was causing *** again last week with another kod, my son just pointed at him and shook his head. Mr Bully apologized and walked off.

 

There are times when people who like to resort to violence cannot be treated with kid gloves, they need to be taught a lesson. Whether it's by the cops or someone who gives them a lekker snot clap.

[Reg Lizard]

Your Autocorrect hopes he'll clean up his behaviour.

 

[Gav1]

If someone assaults you in the traffic and you want a simple and easy solution, I would recommend pedalling off to your nearest police station and laying an assault charge. Done. Then you can go home, justifiably rant about motorists, and forget about it in a day or two. (I guess there will be some later admin with the courts.) Arguably, any cyclist in this position has a responsibility to the cycling community to do this – lots of you have said so. But I’m with Zatopek: I too think this has more chance of making a permanent impact. Case in point: CapeTalk has just picked up on this. It looks like I will be briefly on air before the ride tomorrow and again on Sunday morning. That’s a lot of listeners who might be a bit more thoughtful when next passing a cyclist.

Kudos to you. Although I wouldn't have done the same (would not have been so cool about it that is) , I do agree that we need to consider alternative approaches to this issue. Violence doesn't work...the legal system is plagued with inefficiencies and doing nothing will be shirking our responsibilities as members of the community.

 

So many a@holes in the world though.....sigh...brick by freaken brick

[The Ouzo]

Great approach, I hope the discussion you had with him involved explaining the need for space when cycling and how close encounters on a bike are much more life threatening than in a car.

 

I think if more motorists used the roads without their cage around them they'd be a heck of a lot more tolerant to others as they then understand the challenges you face when not protected by a cage.