Cyclist seriously injured by egg thrown from car

It is a fact of life that D!ckheads in cars hate us cyclists for reasons known to them. 

Poor chap didn't deserve this and I wish him well. I hope this nasty incident hasn't    put him off cycling.

I know that road, it's essentially a spur of a dual carriageway, but is just a single carriageway into Crowthorne.  There is a shared use path alongside, which is almost always empty so I tend to just roll along that but I'm normally right at the beginning/end of a ride.

The irony is that it's a horrible road right next to the Transport Research Laboratory.

Hope the guy recovers and is back on his bike soon.

Cheers for that.  I dread to think how bad the damage would have been without glasses.

 “I was wearing sunglasses and they took the brunt of the impact." ES

A nasty assault -  he was fortunate to be be wearing eye protection.  The impact of the egg must have been pretty substantial as most lens are polycarbonate  - I guess the specs frame may have 'deformed'/knocked out of way.  I always wear cycling specs, including clear lens when it's cloudy/dull/dark.  

It's a good thing no one has to wear glasses for any other reason that might mean they can wear cycling glasses 

I assume he wasn't wearing cycling glasses at the time?  One more reason why you should... though not really one you'd expect to have to invoke.

And no, I'm not victim blaming.  My point is you could just as easily sustain such an injury from a stone thrown up from the road, and no one needs that.

Doubt very much its a 305, they're rarer than a clean Astana rider. 309 maybe.

#peugeotnerd

It's wierd how his eye has swollen up the the size and shape of the egg that hit him.

Lucky they didn't throw a water melon.

To be fair to Willo, he does espouse everyone not doing themselves/others any harm.

And then we can disband the police and all go and live with him in Trumpton, the simplistic berk.

Come on, Willo, justify this one please.

It seems to be a predictable annual end-of-school-year thing.

Needs police-school liaison to be on the calendar every year.

If it's any consolation you can sleep well knowing that their life is complete and utter shit and lacks any sense of reward at all. The only occassional moments of relief they have are getting wasted or doing cowardly nonsense like this, both of which makes them feel more isolated and shite ultimately. 

You on the other hand get to HTFU courtesy of rule 5 and receive a +1 tolerance to dickheads. Nice one.