Overtaking Other Road Cyclists - Abuse

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  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Captainlip wrote:
    ChrisAOnABike wrote:
    Captainlip wrote:
    Must admit the image of someone getting arsey just cos someone overtakes, and then getting kicked off his bike by Captain Lip (you do wear a suitable super hero costume, right?) is quite appealing, but not so much so in the real world.

    its also just as appealing in the real world. trust me this guy deserved it.
    Would your opinion be any different if he'd smashed his head against something and ended up a vegetable? Or broken his neck in the fall and ended up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life?

    For clarification, I meant 'appealing' in a sort of Tom and Jerry sense. Not in the sense where actions have real consequences.

    And in all honesty, if you're 35 going on 36 (or even if you're 26 as it says in your profile), that's even more worrying than if you were a hotheaded teenager.
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • Captainlip
    Captainlip Posts: 281
    edited October 2012
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    MADONE 5.2
  • dynamicbrick
    dynamicbrick Posts: 460
    If you were driving your car and another car driver tooted or flashed as you overtook, would you slow down then ram him off the road?

    As to how I would have reacted - I wouldn't. The same way I don't hurl abuse at other road users doing strange things... mainly because the world is full of violent idiots who will lash out at any percieved slight or injustice.

    There's a maxim that sales reps like me tend to live by when it comes to idiots doing idiotic things on the road; 'life's too short, let them go and be someone else's accident'
  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Captainlip wrote:
    id like to see how others would have reacted in the same situation, I take the same route quite often and passed this lovely chap since and since has not said a word to me, If I was so in the wrong surely he would have taken action? maybe it knocked some sense into what was once a tit of a road user.

    Forget that, what we all really need to know is how you found a pair of shorts big enough to contain those massive balls of yours??! ffs man, you are the daddy for sure..so please tell us?
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Ahhh sorry, you are twice 18 ... That makes it ok then, silly me.

    So psychopathic behaviour is the acceptable face of cycling then ...
  • Captainlip
    Captainlip Posts: 281
    edited October 2012
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    MADONE 5.2
  • NewTTer
    NewTTer Posts: 463
    Captainlip wrote:
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Ahhh sorry, you are twice 18 ... That makes it ok then, silly me.

    So psychopathic behaviour is the acceptable face of cycling then ...


    its a better excuse than arrogance road users are a disgrace and i hope to change that one kick at a time :wink:

    You are an IDIOT of the highest order, get some common sense you brainless thug.
  • Captainlip
    Captainlip Posts: 281
    edited October 2012
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    MADONE 5.2
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    I really shouldn't feed the troll but it is quite entertaining....

    If I had witnessed such a thuggish and unprovoked assault, I would be happy to give a statement to the police and to appear as a prosecution witness. If this was a recent incident, and given your open admission, perhaps your victim might still wish to make a formal complaint ...

    I'm still not sure if this is a windup or not or why I am bothering to respond
  • Captainlip
    Captainlip Posts: 281
    edited October 2012
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    MADONE 5.2
  • dynamicbrick
    dynamicbrick Posts: 460
    Mikey23 wrote:

    I'm still not sure if this is a windup or not or why I am bothering to respond

    In the interests of science I tried replicating the supposed actions of unclipping and kicking outwards at stomach height last night... even with supremely supple hips and bolted to the trainer, I couldn't do it without falling off, unless target is on a child's bike.
  • gaspode
    gaspode Posts: 110
    edited October 2012
    So if I understand this correctly Cap'n, when this 'incident' originally occurred, you were young, but that actually meant 35+ (by which time the majority of people would not call themselves young) - it then became apparent that people thought that you'd been totally disproportionate with your response, so it became a racist issue - what next? will you claim that the other rider looked like Jimmy Saville, so you attacked him for possibly being a paedophile? or was he wearing Livestrong Oakleys and therefore upset you by bringing your cycling into disrepute?
    If this 'story' has any truth in it, then I'd suggest that you as a minimum need some anger management counselling, however I think you'd be better served with a period of rest and recuperation at Her Majesties pleasure - the law does not take kindly to vigilante justice however provoked you may claim to have been.....
  • the playing mantis
    the playing mantis Posts: 2,129
    seriously, u kicked someone off their bike as you overtook, for no other reason than looking smug???? is that the only reason??

    what if this person had fallen in front of a vehicle or smashed their head? do you not care how dangerous what you did was? what if someone did this to one of your kids or wife??
  • Kerguelen
    Kerguelen Posts: 248
    Captainlip wrote:
    This is a great thread with interesting reading, I have been abused a couple of times for overtaking one recieving actual verbal abuse, my reply to him was the best move ive ever made and will I wont refrain from doing it again.

    after some abuse going for the pass I did not respond with words, a quick glance his way, unclipped and a swift boot to his waist, this resulted in knocking him off balance and clipping the curb and going over his handle bars in a heap.

    safe to say I will continue to use this on any of those arrogant pricks who think that because im young I can be spoken to like a piece of shoot.

    its time to sort this attitude out that roadies have, I hope some of you reading this learn as there will be a swift boot to anyone who dares give me lip again.

    ITG-like typing detected.
  • NewTTer
    NewTTer Posts: 463
    the playing mantis wrote:
    seriously, u kicked someone off their bike as you overtook, for no other reason than looking smug???? is that the only reason??

    what if this person had fallen in front of a vehicle or smashed their head? do you not care how dangerous what you did was? what if someone did this to one of your kids or wife??

    Oh no, now we have all criticised him for being a Thuggish twat he has decided to play the Racism card, and amended his original story now claiming the target of his kick racialy abused him as he over took him. This guy really has some issues!
  • Fursty Ferret
    Fursty Ferret Posts: 189
    Captainlip wrote:
    Mikey23 wrote:
    Ahhh sorry, you are twice 18 ... That makes it ok then, silly me.

    So psychopathic behaviour is the acceptable face of cycling then ...


    its a better excuse than arrogance road users are a disgrace and i hope to change that one kick at a time :wink:

    Come and try this round my way with some of the people I work with. I guarantee you'll be crawling home, crying like a child.

    You stupid muppet. I've never heard anything so pathetic in my life.
  • Mystique
    Mystique Posts: 342
    Captainlip wrote:
    This is a great thread with interesting reading, I have been abused a couple of times for overtaking one recieving actual verbal abuse, my reply to him was the best move ive ever made and will I wont refrain from doing it again.

    after some abuse going for the pass I did not respond with words, a quick glance his way, unclipped and a swift boot to his waist, this resulted in knocking him off balance and clipping the curb and going over his handle bars in a heap.

    safe to say I will continue to use this on any of those arrogant pricks who think that because im young I can be spoken to like a piece of shoot.

    its time to sort this attitude out that roadies have, I hope some of you reading this learn as there will be a swift boot to anyone who dares give me lip again.

    Just what every thread needs, a keyboard warrior :roll:
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    It never happened. Just another dreamer, probably inadequate in real life, so gets a 'kick' about imagining he gets one over on someone.
  • dmclite-3.0
    dmclite-3.0 Posts: 845
    I think he is trolling. even though I'm older than him. I am double 20.5 years of age.

    Anyone else want to tell us their age in the new double format ?
    I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, but I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast...
  • Joeblack
    Joeblack Posts: 829
    edited March 2014
    dmclite-3.0 wrote:
    I think he is trolling. even though I'm older than him. I am double 20.5 years of age.

    Anyone else want to tell us their age in the new double format ?


    I'll bite, makes its sound better anyone

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    One plays football, tennis or golf, one does not play at cycling
  • Mystique
    Mystique Posts: 342
    23.5 doubled...that's depressing
  • chrisaonabike
    chrisaonabike Posts: 1,914
    Mystique wrote:
    23.5 doubled...that's depressing
    25 doubled. However, no point in getting depressed - we're both as young now as we'll ever be again, so best make the most of it. :)
    Is the gorilla tired yet?
  • confused@BR
    confused@BR Posts: 295
    I like this idea, the thought of being 33 again is quite attractive......

    Hang on..... married to wife Mk1, mortgage, job, stress......

    Hmm....
    'fool'
  • Mikey23
    Mikey23 Posts: 5,306
    Hmmm ... 122 here. Not good!

    I do hope that mr 2x18 comes to east Cornwall for a holiday. Would love to engage in a little light hearted racist kicking. Perhaps synchronised in a Tom daly kind of a way?
  • Secteur
    Secteur Posts: 1,971
    Now disnt i tell you all not to feed the trolls?

    Children, please listen to daddy secteur in future.

    And i'm double-16.5
  • TheCornishMong
    TheCornishMong Posts: 88
    Secteur wrote:
    And i'm double-16.5
    Err, double -16.5? Minus 33 is young by anyone's standards :?
  • Joeblack
    Joeblack Posts: 829
    Secteur wrote:
    Now disnt i tell you all not to feed the trolls?

    Children, please listen to daddy secteur in future.

    And i'm double-16.5


    Ahhhhhhh it was fun for about 2mins though, now there's an Anal fungus thread I'm sooooo over the lip boy
    One plays football, tennis or golf, one does not play at cycling
  • pride4ever
    pride4ever Posts: 510
    Lol cyclists are a funny breed and men have an inbuilt competitive urge that often gets the better of them. Just this week I was riding the Strines near Sheffield, anyone who rides it will tell you its crazy steep in places (25% in places). I had pulled over to relieve my bladder on a flat section when this dude went whizzing by me. 200 mtrs or so on he had slowed down to a crawl and was looking back. I thought he might want to ride together up the next steep ascent. In fact he had seen my skinny frame next to his much heavier muscular one and had decided to let me pass him on the flat rather than on the hill so as not to feel less of a man when I passed him. Sad really.
    the deeper the section the deeper the pleasure.
  • nunowoolmez
    nunowoolmez Posts: 867
    Blimey, this is all new to me, & i live & ride in London! Abuse from motorists is a given but not other cyclists. I also have an added joker to play if required in my warrant card i can shove in someones face if their behaviour requires. Doing this with motorists is great, just watching their stupid face turn red while i give them a few choice words. Seeing a grown adult turn into the way a child looks being told off is really satisfying, plus it's the last thing they expected!
  • ElLawro
    ElLawro Posts: 59
    This is obviously some parallel universe that I've obviously missed.........Phew;-)

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