Dublin Bike right in the stomach!!

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Dublin bike....thought for a sec Twink gave you a dig in the stomach!

Is this the gap you were trying to "squeeze through" OP??

Yeah that was the exact place.

He used the words squeeze through. He was walking the bike at the time but here was still ample room. He had to step into me to get me with the bike.

I was at the lamp side, I had passed the lamp and I had my back pushed against the lamp with the force of the bike.

I only said I'd call the cops after he threatened to call them and report me for "squeezing through a gap". I was just turning it around on him more of a threat to get him to calm down and apologise.

There was no calming him down though, even when the garda arrived he was still going balloobas.

I know, sounds mental, but if I didn't hold onto bike he would have just gone away. In the moment I felt like a dick just letting him walk away with no apology after jamming bike into me and then shouting abuse.

You know yourself, you'll always have people bumping into you by mistake but this guy really shoved it into me. It was just nuts, he was so angry.

Cars were beeping away as they passed, must have looked pretty funny in fairness. Like we were fighting for possesion of worst bike ever.

"You take it"

"No you take it"

Feisar wrote: »

Basically some guy hit you. Assault. And the guard had no problem with that!?!

And to clarify I'm not the sort of person that starts screaming assault if someone touches my shoulder.

I told garda that he did it and the guy said he did it because I was trying "to squeeze through" - so he admitted it in front of garda.

Garda asked did anyone else see it, I said no. He said then it's a civil matter and we'd have to settle this in court and asked could we just sort this out now with apologies.

It think he was trying to diffuse it basically.

We both said fine then he refused to apologise and said it was my fault he did it as I shouldn't have tried to walk through (between lamp and wall) at the same time as him.

The guy just walked away shouting and the garda let him. I was eager to just return to normal morning so was cool about that.

Garda just said the guy had mental issues and introduced himself and told me the department he worked in and asked me where I was from. I think just some casual chat to see that I was ok before going away.

He was blocking traffic because of where he parked up next to us and was getting dogs abuse from passing cars so I'd say he was anxious to get on. He could see I wasn't injured or emotional so I think he handled it well. Very calm and cool but kept giving the bike guy opportunities to relax and move on.

He didn't relax, just moved on.

I got an email an hour ago from a guy I used to work with saying wtf as he saw it on his way to work.

Edit: And I'd be the same about assault. It took a few seconds for me to think to myself - that guy just stabbed me with his bike! I actually turned around and asked him did he just hit me with his bike on purpose, my tone would have been one of incredulity. It was surreal.

wild_cat wrote: »

He shouldn't have been on the path, especially around that area at rush hour. Full of people.


Not to generalise but I've heard that the blue bike users are a tad less bike confident and even manage to annoy other "bike owning" cyclists a lot during the day.

If he wasn't confident enough to cycle through that junction at rush hour he should be on his feet.

He was walking his bike on the path at the time.