Assault!

[Poenster]

Something interesting about our Testosterone driven fellow cyclists... Once again hogging the road... and getting knocked down...

 

 

http://www.thinkbike.co.za/talk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=120970#120970

[slowpoke]

ok, unless you are a registered user of the thinkbike site you can't see this... please copy the relevant to here or just give a brief run-down...

[Poenster]

Here we go again... Sorry!

http://www.thinkbike.co.za/talk/phpBB2/templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gifPosted: Fri 16 Feb, 2007 11:37    Post subject: Cyclist 0 - Biker 5 http://www.thinkbike.co.za/talk/phpBB2/templates/subSilver/images/lang_english/icon_quote.gif Hi So listen to this one. Go for a blast on the bike this morning. I am riding up Nellmapius ext in Centurion, past the Cornwall. I am behind a lady driver in a polo, there are a gaggle of cyclists riding in the road. At this point they are 2 abreast, next moment without looking a third one just whips out and tries to make it 3 abreast, the lady driver swerves out but there simply was not enough space, she clips him and down he goes. She stops almost immediately and so do I. So these cyclists basically attack this poor woman as she runs over to check that the guy is okay. 4 guys, 1 woman. I intervened and asked them just to calm down, I saw the whole thing and there is no need to get aggressive. En toe is daar k@k. I am not sure which is the sad part here really the fact that bravado only comes in multiples or the fact that said cyclists tried to write a cheque their bodies could not cash. So luckily someone called the ambulance to take the fellows off to the hospital. Now I have to go and lay an assault charge at the SAPS because I know they will!! Unfortunately I don't have a scratch on me, no one will believe I was in a fight!!! The lady driver is on my side though and will give a witness statement. I am a pacifist at heart but when you are attacked by 5 guys (yes the 'injured' one decided to get involved), there is no way to be soft about things. I have a sick feeling that somehow this will come back and be my fault although I sincerely believe I am in the right here. I also feel terrible about all this but surely they were in the wrong? I need some reassurance!

[Evan Andreou]

Did these guys belong to a club, do they know or say? Maybe it's time clubs start doing some internal policing

 

We do this drag on our Saturday club ride and give the guys hell that don't go single file. There is no shoulder, it's fairly narrow, not to mention the roadworks up at the Pierre v Ryneveld turn off.

 If this is an unbiased, objective account of what happened it doesn't reflect well on cyclists.

[slowpoke]

and these are the $%^&s who make cycling dangerous for the rest of us. we seriusly need to figure out a way of naming and shaming this type of idiot cyclist.

heck, on our morning rides we go single file whenever a car approaches from behind EVEN on 2-lane sections. that is the law. for a third rider to pull out and make it 3 abreast is absurd and in this instance is it the motorists's fault that the $%^& bought a patch of real estate? NO.

[TNT1]

 

Did these guys belong to a club' date=' do they know or say? Maybe it's time clubs start doing some internal policing[/quote']

 

Very good idea.

 

 

 If this is an unbiased' date=' objective account of what happened it doesn't reflect well on cyclists.

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Hah, the motorists can just be thankful OB wasn't there

 

(that was a joke before anyone tries to tear me a new one)

 

[DRIVETRAIN]

Man Poenster sorry to hear you got a  from cyclists -- goes to show some of them are a bunch of moron's.....U stood up for what's right mate....guess now we can see why the fued between us & them (motorists) are gonna take a loooooooooong time to resolve !!!

 

Guys & gals like this give cylcing a k%$k name !!

 

"DT"

 

[IanJ]

Think Bike were the one's that marshalled our protest ride and supported us so well !!!

 

They were very keen on looking at joint safety projects with us, who knows where that will go now.

 

[scotty]

Some would say the motorist was at fault for trying to overtake and not following the whole way behind.

 

Not me, but some.

[Kranswurm]

Some would say the motorist was at fault for trying to overtake and not following the whole way behind.

 

Not me' date=' but some.

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Ja and I have also had just as about as much as I can take about"some"

They must wake up and smell the roses

[Guest Big H]

Testosterone Thugs in a bunch..... not one of them thinks straight.... their hypothalmus thinks for them.... they are all the same (all of us included!!!!)

[Man with no name]

Hypothalamus? Big word for a blue bull supporter!

 

 

 

[dirtrider]

Jy soek nou sommer openlik vir #@#$@

[Pantani]

Yeah, I had a similar thing happen this morning, was riding behind some guys who were almost 'clipped' and they went 'bos' on the lady driving the car when actually, from where I was she really didn't do anything wrong. The behaviour that followed was appalling, and involved but was not restricted to spitting on her car and snorting snot on her car amongst other things. Then they wondered why I wasn't consumed by the same sense of moral outrage as they were because she almost killed them. Problem was that from where I was they seemed to be at fault, but I was outnumbered and chose not to air that view. 

[Jinx]

Yeah' date=' I had a similar thing happen this morning, was riding behind some guys who were almost 'clipped' and they went 'bos' on the lady driving the car when actually, from where I was she really didn't do anything wrong. The behaviour that followed was appalling, and involved but was not restricted to spitting on her car and snorting snot on her car amongst other things. Then they wondered why I wasn't consumed by the same sense of moral outrage as they were because she almost killed them. Problem was that from where I was they seemed to be at fault, but I was outnumbered and chose not to air that view. [img']smileys/smiley18.gif" align="absmiddle" alt="Ouch" />

 

 

 

 

If Narra was there with you ... you might have aired you view ... he he

 

[pastapouch]

Its so sick that some guys have this attitude. Ya, sometimes I wanna do worse things to a driver who messes up than spit on his car. and they give us a bad name. Where were you riding Pantani.