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Originally Posted by Lozzo
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Hellooooooo 
I was never a big fan of cyclists, but working in Cambridge now has totally reinforced my utter dislike of them. Just the other day I was turning into the shop's bike park and a cyclist came hell for leather down the pavement towards me. Bear in mind she wasn't visible as I started my manouver, she then darted in front of me whilst all the time shouting obscenities. I had to brake pretty hard to avoid a collision and as I did so I gave her a mouthful back - unfortunately, even though I heard all she said (and I'm sorry medear, but I can prove my parentage and their marital status at the time I was born) all she would have heard from me would have been something along the lines of "Mffmllmmmffff furrrrcmmmfffing biiittmmmmmffffffch" because I had a fleecy balaclava on under my helmet. |
I can only agree with you on this, you met a git of a cyclist just as I met a git of a biker.
My point is minority road users seem to be prejudged based on the behavior of the worst and not of the individual, as far as I'm concerened in this instance this act was prejudice against the type of vehicle I had chosen to use that day rather than the quality of my manouver, if I had been riding my SV I doubt the hand signal from the biker would have have been the same.