Not me. I’ll confess.

I haven’t been able to ride a bike since an op about five years ago. To be honest I really miss it. I’ve thought about getting one of those recumbent trike things, but they’re even less visible than your average bike, so decided not to.

i think the scrape down the side was perfectly reasonable seeing as i was doing about 15mph and he cut into me after deliberately overtaking to cut in just before the corner

and no you wouldn’t you’d look exceedingly stupid spitting your jacobs out just after you got out !!

what other options were left but to bang on the side he was shouting loud enough

and in a van in that situation the only way the driver will probably hear is by doing so

i’d certainly prefer that if it was my van rather than putting someone in hospital

but then logic doesn’t come into it when you can’t get past the mindset it’s only a metal box eventualy it will be a metal cube like 95% of them

No, its not reasonable. Its about as reasonable as thumping someone, like that idiot van driver did. That’s the point.

Logic? Logic says that if you see you’re going to hit something, then whoever’s in the wrong, just stop. Logic doesn’t suggest acting like a retarded lemming and running into something deliberately. Most of us stop doing that shortly after learning to walk.

I will admit I am defensive of my “metal box”. The reason being its a possesion I enjoy. Why should I allow you to damage it without me inflicting similar damage to your bike? As I said earlier, if I just wandered up and kicked your bike to get your attention, what would be your reaction?

I don’t usually mind cyclists. Apart from the odd one, the majority are alright and we do tend to get quite a few of them up here in the peaks.

However… what I do take exception to is ANYBODY banging on the side of my vehicle. It’s vandalism. Grab my attention reasonably when I’m about to do something daft, and I might be more sympathetic, but I don’t care that you might want my attention after you’ve taken offence to something. We don’t go slapping cyclists to get their attention if they misbehave do we? Or maybe kick their bike to get their attention?

As for T64’s statement about “cheerfully scraping down the side”.. 😡

Try it.

I’ll cheerfully see how you like a new career, as a crash test dummy.

Also when you’re on the floor with your elbows back to front and the remains of your mountain bike stuffed up your ****, I’ll remove your camera before I drive off too.