little fvcker playing chicken with me

[princeperch]

I had images of the incident becoming a harry flashman moment. Some tt in camden decided to walk out in the road before me with a stupid smile on his face, step back, then step forward. So I thought fk this, didnt change my course or speed at all, and went straight into him with my shoulder.

He went down like a sack of spuds, and then evinced an intention to kill me. If I hadnt been late for an appointment I would have probably gone back and taken great pleasure in stoving his moronic face in with my D lock.

If it had been a smaller person it probably would have knocked them off their bike. Be careful out there people.

[Pints]

Not sure if everyone will agree with your actions, but I certainly applaud you.

[BliarOut]

Bet he doesn't do it again. He learned a lesson, you weren't hurt, I'd say that was a result.

[Mars]

Pints said:

Not sure if everyone will agree with your actions, but I certainly applaud you.

Well I agree with them and also applaud.

[donfisher]

After several near misses through london. Many of which involved me shouting in public to get them out of the way; I bought a bell.

Fair play though, what's the best angle of approach? A colleague once took out a pedestrian and ended up going over the bars and made quite a mess of his face. The ideal scenario would be to be able to keep going.

[Omaruk]

I would say you need to chill out dude, and use your brakes that what they are for.

[princeperch]

more by luck the anything else that I didnt come off. It's all well and good that he did it to me and I'm a big lad and it did me no harm - but if he had done it to my missus on one of our sunday excursions, there is no doubt I would have done him some serious harm. No doubt at all.

Again, a further reason to discourage her from cycling to work...

[okgo]

Well done. People like this are tts.

I am a pretty bad cyclist in as much as I have a short temper, and people playing games like this need to learn not to be s.

Today in fact, some guy coming the other way on hammersmith bridge pretended to swerve onto my side of the road then laughed. I turned round followed him down to the traffic jam he was stuck in and asked if he wanted to get out of his car and tell me what was funny about his actions. Surprisingly he declined.

[AlexC1981]

donfisher said:

Fair play though, what's the best angle of approach? A colleague once took out a pedestrian and ended up going over the bars and made quite a mess of his face. The ideal scenario would be to be able to keep going.

[donfisher]

it did cross my mind.

[louiebaby]

I went over the top of someone a couple of weeks ago who stepped out into the road without looking. She went to hospital, and I had an achy shoulder for a day or two, and a pair of wheels like Pringles.

She admitted it was her fault, but I paid for the wheels myself. (£20.)

[Stu R]

Top marks OP

[KrazyIvan]

Run him over and kill him, I believe you'll only get a £2000 fine at the most.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/beds/bucks/...

Edited by KrazyIvan on Thursday 24th March 09:32

[princeperch]

KrazyIvan said:

Run him over and kill him, I believe you'll only get a £2000 fine at the most.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/england/beds/bucks/...

Edited by KrazyIvan on Thursday 24th March 09:32

2 grand is value to do my bit to clean up the gene pool non?

[The Walrus]

Good on you fella, I had a drunk try it and do something similar on christmas day last year he even raised a fist at my dad who was leading, luckily I saw what he was up to and caught his special brew can with my elbow as I went past which really pissed him off.

[HundredthIdiot]

What I really hate is when peds look at you coming then walk across blithely.

It happens when driving sometimes, which would indicate that people must have a basic lack of imagination or faith in my good nature, but in that instance I don't run them over so I guess they win.

So I try to do the same on my bike, i.e. not kill them.

Sometimes if I've feeling particularly aggreesive I mutter or shout something about the red man, buy since I am daily witness to swarms of cyclists swerving around peds as they cross on the green man they probably scoff at the irony.

[donfisher]

I was going through a light on amber, the red man was still lit. Some thespie looking bloke with a cravat jumped out and told me to stop. I swerved and told him to fk off. I've seen some people hammer through a red just about dodging people on the crossing so I suppose some people tar us all with the same brush.

In the case of people looking at you and still working I reckon it's just that they underestimate the speed you can get up to.

[princeperch]

Dont get me wrong, if I thought that he was just trying to cross the road and he got it wrong (which is easy enough to do), I would have of course gone around him or slowed. However since the little fecker clearly wanted to play games I thought I would join in.

Just be careful out there people - the peds are out to get us!

[R2FU]

Sorry to be a dissenting voice but regardless of the rights and wrongs of what he did I'm not sure deliberately riding into the bloke is to be commended. Let's say you catch him wrong, he falls badly and smashes his head in and witnesses say you took no avoiding action. Seems you're a solicitor, what would the law say on that?

Sorry to sound a bit namby pamby but my point is not that he didn't 'deserve' it, just that it's not really worth you taking the risk. Or in another scenario you fall off as a result of an avoidable collision and smash your own head in. Is some smart-ass tt really worth that risk?

[Zaxxon]

A bit like that young girl who was murdered by the cyclist who was on the pavement and shouted 'I'm not stopping'

Knocked her over and killed her.
Although she wasn't playing chicken and being a tt.