How many times can you get hurled abuse in one ride?

Went out for a ride on my pushbike today ... nice day for it and all that ...

But in one ride (~20 miles) I got hurled abuse on 4 separate occasions ...

Twice by car drivers, once by a cyclist and once by a pedestrian ...

People need to chill!!

Why were they abusing you? What did they say?

Originally Posted by StreetHawk

Why were they abusing you? What did they say?

I was merrily listing to my iPod, so to be fair, I was in another world ... they could have been shouting out anything ... even how s3xy I was ... but lets face it, I doubt that was the case

I am not saying I wasn't doing anything slightly unorthodox, but I was enjoying my ride and not doing anyone any harm ...

But you shouldn't do that on pavements and going the wrong way up one way streets

Originally Posted by Tim in Belgium

But you shouldn't do that on pavements and going the wrong way up one way streets

#1 I was cycling in the cycle lane ... admittedly the 'wrong side' of the road i.e. going against the traffic in the cycle lane on the RHS of the road ... I can't really see what difference that makes to the oncoming traffic as they shouldn't be in the cycle lane anyway ... and it actually means I can keep a better eye on the traffic rather than just getting clouted up the rear!!

#2 The oncoming pedestrians (row of about 5 yoofs) saw me coming towards them on the path (it was one of those shared footpaths and cycle thingys) as tehy were in a mob, they were taking up the whole path, but they refused to move out of the way to let me nicely through - so I stood up on the peddles and cycled up to 'ramming speed' ... I narrowly avoided 'collecting' one of the little sh1ts as I torpedoed my way through ...

#3 I was trying to cross a busy road, so I crossed the oncoming lane in a gap ... then had to sit/cycle in the middle bit for a bit to get up to filtering in speed of the other lane ... the oncoming car called me a t*** ...

#4 Whilst cycling the wrong way up a cycle lane I was faced with an oncoming bike ... as the road was clear at that point, I pulled off the cycle lane onto the road to let the bike going the right way continue on his path ... evidently that still qualifies me as a w***er in Portsmoof!!

As I said, not like I was being a saint, but no real need for anyone to get sh1tty with me!!

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Your a bike man, you will be pleased to know the wheels&street tyres I liberated from my £10 dump-bike are little minxes now they are on my old chassis I can go faster with 50% less effort now!!!

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

QFE

[chris8886]

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

Went out for a ride on my pushbike today ... nice day for it and all that ...

But in one ride (~20 miles) I got hurled abuse on 4 separate occasions ...

Twice by car drivers, once by a cyclist and once by a pedestrian ...

People need to chill!!

you should've abused the buggers right back!!

i get right annoyed when people have ago at me for riding on a very wide pavement (quite slowly), of a busy road (that in all probablility would see me knocked off). i stear well clear of them and they still have a go every now and then. i'm not gonna walk with the bike, when i could be riding it!!

I saw the thread title and thought you had invented a new game in order to inject a little excitement back into motorcycling. This game + helmet cameras + interwebs = smash hit. I'm a little disappointed.