Biker in Wicklow: Sun 27th

Cookie_Monster

Came across many bikers today on my cycle around Wicklow.

99% or them no issue at all, some even waved or nodded hello to me.

But there's always one Fuckhead who ruins it for everyone. Cycling between Laragh and Rathdrum he came up behind me, slapped the back of my head and sped off with his two other mates. :mad:
If he's on here by any chance I'd just like to say the following to him:

1. You're fortunate I did not get your reg

2. If I had to brake or swerve suddenly to avoid a pothole etc I would have hit you because you were far too close and we both would have gone down.

3. Doing stuff like that does not make you cool, it makes you look like a complete tool who has no respect for others or for the rules of the road.


To any other bikers that may have passed me today, I hope you had a good ride, it was a great day to be out. (I had a boards jersey on )

Paparazzo

I was around the mountains on Friday at around 2pm till 4:30pm and saw a few bicycles, most gave me the nod which I returned.

But obviously the biker that gave you the slap is a complete tosser.

amacca

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Came across many bikers today on my cycle around Wicklow.

99% or them no issue at all, some even waved or nodded hello to me.

But there's always one Fuckhead who ruins it for everyone. Cycling between Laragh and Rathdrum he came up behind me, slapped the back of my head and sped off with his two other mates. :mad:
If he's on here by any chance I'd just like to say the following to him:

1. You're fortunate I did not get your reg

2. If I had to brake or swerve suddenly to avoid a pothole etc I would have hit you because you were far too close and we both would have gone done.

3. Doing stuff like that does not make you cool, it makes you look like a complete tool who has no respect for others or for the rules of the road.


To any other bikers that may have passed me today, I hope you had a good ride, it was a great day to be out. (I had a boards jersey on )

what a reckless cnut

riders like these are part of the reason insurance premiums are high as sooner or later they will be a statistic in an actuaries reference tables...

hopefully they wont take any innocent parties with them

daenerysstormborn3

What an ass.

KamiKazi

Were you cycling two or three abreast?

Pique

KamiKazi wrote: »

Were you cycling two or three abreast?

Does it make a difference ? He was a twat for doing what he did.

Cookie_Monster

KamiKazi wrote: »

Were you cycling two or three abreast?

why would that matter?

But no, I was by myself.

KamiKazi

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

why would that matter?

But no, I was by myself.

Because it's incredibly annoying to be blocked just because a few cyclists want to have a chat.

But if you were by yourself it's safe to say yer man is a twat.

-Chris-

It doesn't matter if you're single file or five abreast, nobody has the right to give you a slap.

KamiKazi

-Chris- wrote: »

It doesn't matter if you're single file or five abreast, nobody has the right to give you a slap.

Never said they did, just saying that'd be the most likely reason....

-Chris-

The most likely (only) reason is because the biker is a cnut.

Idleater

KamiKazi wrote: »

Were you cycling two or three abreast?

Two abreast being legal of course. Besides, I've never thought it an issue for a motorbike to pass cyclists.

Cookie_Monster

-Chris- wrote: »

The most likely (only) reason is because the biker is a cnut.

:pac::pac::pac:

Well put:D

seanybiker

Sounds like a complete prick. Deserves a nice knee in the face.

TheUsual

I own a bike and never seen any other biker do that for a laugh.

If some spanner did that to me on a street it would be assault and the Gardaí would be involved.

I hope he does it next week to some guy with a black-belt in Judo.

Karma.

rymus

what an awful pity you didn't get his reg. I'm sure that'd be a nice case of reckless driving and assault for the courts to deal with.

jimgoose

Ah HTFU and get off the road with yer silly toys.

Sids Not

Well i disagree with most here.....and i dont apologise in advance if you're upset by my comments....

The amount of times i've been stuck behind these wa**ers cycling 3 and 4 abreast on the roads between Bray and Greastones (usually from now till october) ..holding up the traffic because Ms. learner wont cross the solid white line to overtake..:rolleyes:...if I had a fu**ing truck i'd drive over them...total lack of consideration for other road users...i'm sure when they're in their cars their attitude is completely the opposite...and dont get me started on them not using the cycle lanes that i've paid for...:mad:

KamiKazi

Sids Not wrote: »

Well i disagree with most here.....and i dont apologise in advance if you're upset by my comments....

The amount of times i've been stuck behind these wa**ers cycling 3 and 4 abreast on the roads between Bray and Greastones (usually from now till october) ..holding up the traffic because Ms. learner wont cross the solid white line to overtake..:rolleyes:...if I had a fu**ing truck i'd drive over them...total lack of consideration for other road users...i'm sure when they're in their cars their attitude is completely the opposite...and dont get me started on them not using the cycle lanes that i've paid for...:mad:

+1

I find it hard to believe the OP received a slap for no good reason.

RosieJoe

KamiKazi wrote: »

+1

I find it hard to believe the OP received a slap for no good reason.

Unfortunately I can well believe someone getting slapped for no reason. How many times have you heard of some scum throwings eggs at people for no reason?

Regardless of what they did/didn't do, getting a slap from someone who is travelling at speed could cause serious damage.

IMO Biker was a feckin gob****e showing off to his mates! True hard man :rolleyes:

Cookie_Monster

KamiKazi wrote: »

+1

I find it hard to believe the OP received a slap for no good reason.

The only reason was the biker was some scumbag who thought it'd be hilarious.

Not that I need to justify my behaviour on the road but:

I was as far to the left on the lane as I could be
I was by myself so single file
I was minding my own business, not veering around or anything, not blocking people and keeping a reasonable 25-27 kph.
None of the other 30-40 bikers who overtook me had reason to gesticulate or otherwise express any annoyance.

Regardless of any consideration there is never reason to physically hit another road user. I came off as best I could, merely being startled by it, but I could easily have fallen and at worse fallen against him and caused us both to go down. Needless to say I would would have come off worse, with no protective clothing and maybe even being hit by the 2 other bikes directly behind him. Extrodinarily reckless stunt for a cheap laugh IMO.

gsxr1

Terrible tragic thing to happen.

I hope the OP concerned makes a speedy recovery from this horrific slap around the lugs.

What sort of bike was it. Did he look like this by any chance

cantdecide

That biker was certainly a nob to do that. A huge amount of cyclists are unconsider exhibitionists. However, the issues are unrelated.

amacca

gsxr1 wrote: »

Terrible tragic thing to happen.

I hope the OP concerned makes a speedy recovery from this horrific slap around the lugs.

What sort of bike was it. Did he look like this by any chance

yeah cookie...perhaps he was just getting a dna sample to see if you were John Connor!

that or he was a foolish cnut.

I'm a biker myself but I'd like to see that happy slappy get his teeth kicked in the more I think about it.

Sids Not

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

(I had a boards jersey on )

That explains it......they must have been from here....:D:D

http://www.biker.ie/forum/index.php

smellslikeshoes

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Came across many bikers today on my cycle around Wicklow.

99% or them no issue at all, some even waved or nodded hello to me.

But there's always one Fuckhead who ruins it for everyone. Cycling between Laragh and Rathdrum he came up behind me, slapped the back of my head and sped off with his two other mates. :mad:
If he's on here by any chance I'd just like to say the following to him:

1. You're fortunate I did not get your reg

2. If I had to brake or swerve suddenly to avoid a pothole etc I would have hit you because you were far too close and we both would have gone down.

3. Doing stuff like that does not make you cool, it makes you look like a complete tool who has no respect for others or for the rules of the road.


To any other bikers that may have passed me today, I hope you had a good ride, it was a great day to be out. (I had a boards jersey on )

Sorry lad, I was aiming for your arse, it's them tight bike shorts you all wear they do bad things to people.

dMaN24

People on pushbikes seems to have problem to realize what they are.
This morning is an example. I was on my bike (the one with an engine on it) going in to work. I spot a person on a fancy pushbike (a la tour de france) in the bus lane. Something wrong with the bike-lane 2 dm to your left?

And as i came up to the red light you swished by giving toss about the traffic coming from the left. Surely, why would you? You are on a pushbike, you don't have to obey traffic-laws, now do you?

And going up around Sally/Wicklow gap it's narrow enough without people on pushbikes going 2 abreast doing 15-20 km/h discussing what weetabix is most nutricious.

Yes. I stereotype, but so do the people on pushbikes.

Regarding slap or no slap. I wasn't there, so i cannot pass judgement.

seamus

If a guy in a car buzzed any of you on your bikes close enough to give you smack on the back of your helmet, you'd be all in here raging about bloody cagers and how the biker should have caught up with him, dragged him out of the car and beat him to within an inch of his life.

Nice to see hypocrisy is alive and well. Bikers suffer from stereotyping just like cyclists do, and this biker doesn't do anything to dispel the common opinion that all bikers are just speed freak scumbags with no respect for the law.

If you had any respect for yourselves and consider biking to be an honourable priviledge, you would condemn this guy's actions, regardless of what the cyclist may or may not have been doing.

KamiKazi

seamus wrote: »

the common opinion that all bikers are just speed freak scumbags with no respect for the law.

I thought that was the truth?

Noone is condoning the guy's actions, it's hard to accept the OP's story at face value though.

seamus

KamiKazi wrote: »

it's hard to accept the OP's story at face value though.

Really? How many bikers here had snowballs thrown at them during the snowy period? The OP's story sounds like a mild incident to me, certainly nothing unbelievable.

There are idiots everywhere with no concept of what is and isn't safe. Cyclists on account of us looking ridiculous and travelling pretty slowly are a common enough target for these muppets:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056190507

Bikers get away with it by virtue of having street cred in their leathers and travelling a good bit faster.

thewatch

What's not funny about the slap?? I'm wildly amused I hope it turns up on youtube

Green_Martian

OP i would just like to apologise for my actions, i did it as a joke and cos i don't like ppl on push bikes for reasons already pointed out above















:D:D

Only kidding, biker was bang out of order for his/her actions no need to assault anoyone else using the road

karlram

gsxr1 wrote: »

Terrible tragic thing to happen.

I hope the OP concerned makes a speedy recovery from this horrific slap around the lugs.

What sort of bike was it. Did he look like this by any chance

classic. am still gigglin. long live the gsxr!!!!

Sids Not

seamus wrote: »

If a guy in a car buzzed any of you on your bikes close enough to give you smack on the back of your helmet, you'd be all in here raging about bloody cagers and how the biker should have caught up with him, dragged him out of the car and beat him to within an inch of his life.

:D:D.........If a biker was caught by a "cager"..he deserves to have his helmet smacked..............:eek:

seanybiker

seamus wrote: »

If a guy in a car buzzed any of you on your bikes close enough to give you smack on the back of your helmet, you'd be all in here raging about bloody cagers and how the biker should have caught up with him, dragged him out of the car and beat him to within an inch of his life.

Nice to see hypocrisy is alive and well. Bikers suffer from stereotyping just like cyclists do, and this biker doesn't do anything to dispel the common opinion that all bikers are just speed freak scumbags with no respect for the law.

If you had any respect for yourselves and consider biking to be an honourable priviledge, you would condemn this guy's actions, regardless of what the cyclist may or may not have been doing.

excellent point.
You have every right to be on the road.
Sadly your going to me bellends everywhere.
Don't worry we are not all like this prick.
I see plenty of posts by bikers claiming that people in cars treating them like lower class people and now ya have some prick treating cyclists like a lower class person. Hopefully this tool does it to some chap and gets caught at the next set of traffic lights and yer man kicks him all over the shop.

daenerysstormborn3

There are jackasses everywhere, on two legs, two wheels, four wheels, see where I'm going here? It's nothing to do with what mode of transport they use. You can be guaranteed someone who is a jackass on his bike is a jackass in life and this will soon catch up with them.

Paparazzo

seamus wrote: »

If a guy in a car buzzed any of you on your bikes close enough to give you smack on the back of your helmet, you'd be all in here raging about bloody cagers and how the biker should have caught up with him, dragged him out of the car and beat him to within an inch of his life.

Nice to see hypocrisy is alive and well. Bikers suffer from stereotyping just like cyclists do, and this biker doesn't do anything to dispel the common opinion that all bikers are just speed freak scumbags with no respect for the law.

If you had any respect for yourselves and consider biking to be an honourable priviledge, you would condemn this guy's actions, regardless of what the cyclist may or may not have been doing.

Ahem...

Paparazzo wrote: »

But obviously the biker that gave you the slap is a complete tosser.

amacca wrote: »

what a reckless cnut

riders like these are part of the reason insurance premiums are high as sooner or later they will be a statistic in an actuaries reference tables...

hopefully they wont take any innocent parties with them

pixiebean22 wrote: »

What an ass.

Pique wrote: »

He was a twat for doing what he did.

KamiKazi wrote: »

But if you were by yourself it's safe to say yer man is a twat.

-Chris- wrote: »

The most likely (only) reason is because the biker is a cnut.

seanybiker wrote: »

Sounds like a complete prick. Deserves a nice knee in the face.

TheUsual wrote: »

If some spanner did that to me on a street it would be assault and the Gardaí would be involved.

I hope he does it next week to some guy with a black-belt in Judo.

Karma.

rymus wrote: »

what an awful pity you didn't get his reg. I'm sure that'd be a nice case of reckless driving and assault for the courts to deal with.

RosieJoe wrote: »

IMO Biker was a feckin gob****e showing off to his mates! True hard man :rolleyes:

cantdecide wrote: »

That biker was certainly a nob to do that.

twowheelsonly

In fairness to the OP he has stated that he was on his own so therefore it was unlikely that he was holding up too much traffic.

This guy was obviously just a dip****. Usually to be seen on Sunny Sundays.

To be fair to cyclists, the usual reason that they cycle 2 abreast is for self preservation!!! How many times have you seen tosspots in cars drive so close to cyclists that they force them to wobble or cycle into the ditch/footpath. Being two abreast forces the motorist to take a proper overtaking manouver, thereby reducing the chances of the cyclist being injured. Another factor is that by being two abreast in a group of 6/8/10 the distance needed to overtake is actually shorter!!
Overtaking them shouldn't be an issue for bikers most of the time as there normally is sufficient space to get past them.

That's my take on it on Open roads or Country roads. In town though they're fair game!!

gsxr1

Maybe he thought you where his missis. Hard to tell with all that Lycra.

Your lucky he did not try and feel your arse as well:D

Limerick Bandit

today bikers giving slaps :eek: tomorrow who knows


:D:D

Techo

Glad you got home ok..was out that way myself on engine bike yesterday..great day for it..agree there are tossers everywhere and this lad is a case in point.

Think OP has a fair grievance. The whole cager vs biker vs cyclist debate is for another day. Most of us are at some stage one or all of the above..I own a cage, bike and bicycle, and depending on which mode of transport I'm using, the other users p*ss me off at some stage or another. We could rant here about each other for days and won't solve the issue. Only thing that might work and produce harmony is if every road user purchases a copy of the Rules of the Road and actually reads it and practices what is preached therein!

BigBenRoeth

thewatch wrote: »

What's not funny about the slap?? I'm wildly amused I hope it turns up on youtube

lmfao +1

Sids Not

This is a typical cyclist........check out his riding after the event...he's the one thats driving like a lunatic....:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrEgSFtjwgU&feature=related

-Chris-

Sids Not wrote: »

This is a typical cyclist........check out his riding after the event...he's the one thats driving like a lunatic....:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrEgSFtjwgU&feature=related

I'd think he's more of the road rager than the Mondeo man, but I'd say that's more of an instance where they both should have been the "bigger men".

I don't know if that applies very well to Cookie Monster's instance though, except to point out that there are idiots on every form of transport.

Del2005

Techo wrote: »

Glad you got home ok..was out that way myself on engine bike yesterday..great day for it..agree there are tossers everywhere and this lad is a case in point.

Think OP has a fair grievance. The whole cager vs biker vs cyclist debate is for another day. Most of us are at some stage one or all of the above..I own a cage, bike and bicycle, and depending on which mode of transport I'm using, the other users p*ss me off at some stage or another. We could rant here about each other for days and won't solve the issue. Only thing that might work and produce harmony is if every road user purchases a copy of the Rules of the Road and actually reads it and practices what is preached therein!

There's no need every house in the county was posted the current one.
Biker is a pr!ck no way around it. No matter how frustrated other road users makes you there's no excuse for hitting anyone unless your both in a ring.

Paparazzo

Sids Not wrote: »

This is a typical cyclist........check out his riding after the event...he's the one thats driving like a lunatic....:rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrEgSFtjwgU&feature=related

That cyclist is a knob of the highest order. But definitely not typical. Theres a few militant cyclist around, but they're not the norm. Same with bikers, drive through town every day and there's dickheads out there. They use all forms of transport.