A man has been charged after a 70-year-old cyclist was attacked by another rider in Dundee earlier this month.
The victim, a retired artist who is profoundly deaf, suffered a double fracture of his cheekbone after being attacked on a cycle path by a man who had followed him from the city centre on Monday September 3.
Police Scotland said the attacker "seemed to take umbrage” at the victim outside Nandos on Nethergate. He then followed the older man to the cycle path behind Sensation Science Centre.
The pensioner stopped when he realised the other rider was following him and the man swore at him, attacked him and knocked him off his bike.
The victim made his way home where his wife called an ambulance. He was treated at Ninewells Hospital.
“He’s terribly upset about it,” his wife told the Courier newspaper shortly after the incident. “He’s in an awful state and he’s pretty shocked by what happened. I only knew something was wrong when he collapsed at the front door of the house.”
Police Scotland said a 48-year-old man has been charged in connection with the attack and is due to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court today.
11 thoughts on “Man charged after cyclist-on-cyclist ‘bike rage’ attack”
Isnt more a case of a nutter
Isnt more a case of a nutter who happens to own a bike, than a “cyclist”. The cyclist bit is incidental, if he had a car he would have followed in that.
lolol wrote:Isnt more a case
Agreed it just so happens that the f***wit was on a bicycle. I’m glad they nicked the twat though.
lolol wrote:Isnt more a case
Seriously, fuck off with this childish tribalism.
zanf wrote:lolol wrote:Isnt
+1 – it is pathetic. You sound like knobs.
So a ‘cyclist’ was attacked
So a ‘cyclist’ was attacked by ‘a nutter who happens to own a bike’?
Poor guy…hope he gets better soon.
am i missing something?
if a
am i missing something?
if a person gets on a biek they are cyclist..
if they get in a car they are a motorist…
what is the big deal?
anyway, hope the old dude is ok. any news on WHY he was attacked by another cyclist???!!
No it means he was riding a
No it means he was riding a bike, it doesn’t mean he was a cyclist.
This is a cyclist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47cGzu6-q40 enjoy 🙂
Assault is assault regardless of the form of transport. It’s only legitimate to call it bike rage if that was the reason for it.
I live and cycle in Dundee.
I live and cycle in Dundee. My own imagining of this event sees the perpetrator doing that wobbly knees-out type of cycling only possible when grown man is riding a small girl’s Argos mountain bike. With the seatpost slammed right down.
Call that person a cyclist if you want, but he’s probably not on a bike for any reasons that roadcc readers would identify with.
Feel free to call me out for jumping to conclusions.
I can’t agree Paul, if he’s
I can’t agree Paul, if he’s riding a bike to the world and to us he’s a cyclist.
Good vid, but wrong title the distinction it is surely trying to make is between people who rides bikes (cyclists), and roadies – a subset of cyclists.
We don’t know what type of cyclist the attacker was – could well be the sort Andrewd is imagining, but might not be. We’ve reported in the past on at least one incident where a cyclist of the lycra-clad variety attacked another cyclist – it’s rare enough to be newsworthy.
As for the reason for the attack – the assumed reason mentioned in earlier reports of the incident, but not here because an arrest has now been made, was indeed a cycling one. I’d also point out that bike rage in the title is in quote marks.
Whether I be accused of
Whether I be accused of tribalism or of being a knob, if you can’t spot the difference between a ‘cyclist’ and an ‘idiot on a bike’ then you are that idiot on a bike…
Anyway, this is a story of assault and has nothing to do with cycling really, that’s just incidental. Hope the OAP fella gets back on his bike soon (regardless of whether he’s a ‘cyclist’ or not!)
[[[[ PUB-RAGE? Pavement-rage?
[[[[ PUB-RAGE? Pavement-rage? Footy-terrace-rage? Carpark-rage? Lido-rage? Army Barracks-rage? No, to describe aggressive driving (leading to fisticuffs?) as “road-rage” shifts the blame (for neanderthal behaviour) onto the car, or the traffic conditions. “X-rage” is nowt but a copout, be it by drivers or by cyclists.
Boxers, and streetfighters, have a motto: “Be first”. My philosophy these days—unlike when I was a teenager—is: “Never be first”
ASL-Rage, anyone?
P.R.