Screamers

paulo6891

Hi,

I'm going to come across as a grumpy old fart but...

when anyone here is cycling (particularly late at night), does anyone ever come across cars driving by you and as they are in the act of passing, having the passenger roll down the window and holler at you?

I find it immensely annoying and a dangerous too, it can give one quite the fright and that's the last thing we need when cycling on the roads.

Rant over.

Darkglasses

paulo6891 wrote: »

Hi,

I'm going to come across as a grumpy old fart but...

when anyone here is cycling (particularly late at night), does anyone ever come across cars driving by you and as they are in the act of passing, having the passenger roll down the window and holler at you?

I find it immensely annoying and a dangerous too, it can give one quite the fright and that's the last thing we need when cycling on the roads.

Rant over.

YES! Actually one of my "friends" from work did that to me a few weeks ago, I've been meaning to give him a bollocking for it...Possibly a bit late now...

Sprog 4

I've experienced this too and nearly fell off as a result. It is very dangerous and stupid - but idiots are idiots and will always do things like this.

2011abc

In an 'urban' environment round rush hour can backfire badly on perpetrator when ya catch up with them at next set of lights/traffic queue etc...In many situations they have little or no chance of catching up with you after ...'Penalties' applied can be left to one's imagination but some involving water bottles tend to be a good all round 'happy medium' ...
Bizarrely have been out for spins more than once where lads have been whacked on the ar5e with riding crops by horsey-set type females in passing cars .....alas never in urban settings !!!

demanufactured

2011abc wrote: »

In an 'urban' environment round rush hour can backfire badly on perpetrator when ya catch up with them at next set of lights/traffic queue etc...In many situations they have little or no chance of catching up with you after ...'Penalties' applied can be left to one's imagination but some involving water bottles tend to be a good all round 'happy medium' ...
Bizarrely have been out for spins more than once where lads have been whacked on the ar5e with riding crops by horsey-set type females in passing cars .....alas never in urban settings !!!

Kinky

Harrybelafonte

Being shouted at is the least of your worries, I've had a few things thrown at me as a pedestrian, the lowest was when they sprayed me and my son who was only seven at the time with ketchup. I learned a lesson that day, and so did he.

lennymc

johnk123

Regularly happens to me if I pass through bray on a sunny day.. was sprayed with water one time and was pretty annoyed, sprayed her back with my water bottle when I caught up at the lights... idiot left her window down... But that was a once off!

Surveyor11

I always secretly wish the door would come undone - instant karma. Looks who's screaming now, with half a stone of ar$e fat on the road.

paulo6891

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Being shouted at is the least of your worries, I've had a few things thrown at me as a pedestrian, the lowest was when they sprayed me and my son who was only seven at the time with ketchup. I learned a lesson that day, and so did he.

That's absolutely terrible, it's unfortunate that you (probably) couldn't catch up with them, a few of my friends have been egged as well.

deandean

A few years ago I was cycling back from Howth one night, two guys in a car came up beside me at Offington, window down, arm out, he was aiming to push me off my bike. Fortunately I was able to jump up on the footpath, and they drove off.

Later I heard about some poor guy who died as a result of a cycling accident at the same spot, a couple of months before my incident, no witnesses.

lg123

this usually does it for me;

manwithaplan

deandean wrote: »

A few years ago I was cycling back from Howth one night, two guys in a car came up beside me at Offington, window down, arm out, he was aiming to push me off my bike. Fortunately I was able to jump up on the footpath, and they drove off.

Later I heard about some poor guy who died as a result of a cycling accident at the same spot, a couple of months before my incident, no witnesses.

Howth used be dodgy enough in the evenings with a good few messers in cars around the place. Cars have pulled alongside me a few times for some impromptu comedy contribution and I have been shouted at a bit. Once or twice it looked like it might come to something worse. Haven't seen much of it recently so maybe there's been a bit of a clampdown.

Zyzz

Disguise a C02 cartridge with a small container of mace..

:cool:

Harrybelafonte

I've tried to be all cool with these kinds of situations, but after a few years of them now, I'm tempted to cycle with one of these (Replica btw) sticking out of one of back pockets:

manwithaplan

lg123 wrote: »

this usually does it for me;

Pretending to be a German with an imaginary basketball?

lg123

manwithaplan wrote: »

Pretending to be a German with an imaginary basketball?

Siuin

I had this happen to me a few times. One guy also pulled up at the side of the road in front of me to inform me that I had a "lovely bottom"

On another bizarre note, I recently saw a cyclist speeding down the middle of Dawson Street screaming and possibly drunk, not paying attention to the pedestrian crossing and promptly smacking into a poor guy making his way across the road, sending the cyclist flying over his handlebars. The cyclist promptly started cursing the pedestrian who seems to have been hurt.

Cycling: not for the feint hearted!

kerry4sam

paulo6891 wrote: »

Hi,

I'm going to come across as a grumpy old fart but...

when anyone here is cycling (particularly late at night), does anyone ever come across cars driving by you and as they are in the act of passing, having the passenger roll down the window and holler at you?

I find it immensely annoying and a dangerous too, it can give one quite the fright and that's the last thing we need when cycling on the roads.

Rant over.

Yes, not only at night either!
Yesterday though I had a lovely encounter with 4 d***heads out driving. I was in my right-hand lane to go around an island and looking back at them approaching, they indicated to move into left-lane; then swerved in behind me almost touching my bike to turn right with me; before swapping lane again and back in behind me again! D***heads! Lucky the road was so quiet! A car then approached from the front and they stayed in behind me thereafter before passing me out a good 3km's ahead, despite having ample opportunity to pass before that point.
Their were words as they passed by, nothing I haven't heard before as a female cyclist; but then I had words for them when I saw them pulled in further up the road! D***heads!

I did receive an apology from the driver; the other 3 were not expecting me to stop and ask why the fck they were messing on the road like that and almost hit my bike when they swerving from lane to lane behind me?! D***heads!

harringtonp

Happened me fairly regularly when living in Cork a few years back (Kinsale/Cork main road a favoured spot). Couldn't figure out whether it was general abuse for the sake of it or they felt I was holding them up