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Victim of bike rage?

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  • April 7, 2009 at 7:31 pm #11663
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    Have you ever been the victim of bike rage by a motorist or a pedestrian or even another cyclist? A few weeks ago I was shoulder barged into the canal in Hackney by a pedestrian who couldn’t be bothered to wait for me to emerge from the other end of a narrow tunnel before entering it with a push chair! The person who pushed me didn’t even stop to help me out of the 7 foot deep freezing green water. I think they should put signs up to give the right of way to who has approached the tunnel first.

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  • April 9, 2009 at 3:45 pm #627317
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    There was indeed a small
    There was indeed a small child in the push chair and the person pushing it was a fairly large fellow in his 40’s. I when I saw the push chair enter the tunnel I thought that he would retract it to let me exit the tunnel, oh no, he decided to enter it too! It was too late to get off the bike although I was going about 1 mph. Our shoulders brushed then came the push.
    Unfortunately it has left me a bit edgy at the moment and very weary of anything that might bump me which isn’t great riding through rush hour traffic.

    April 8, 2009 at 10:05 am #627315
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    voiplondon

    On my commute past Waterloo
    On my commute past Waterloo Station there are hundreds of people trying to cross the road at any given time regardless of the colour of the lights at the crossing. I try to slow down a bit but there are also 3 or 4 bus stops so I tend to worry more about being hit by a bus than hitting a pedestrian if they step in front of me. I generally slow down to make sure it is safer. Most weeks I have someone jump in front of me and need to swerve, get shouted at, etc. Thus far I have been lucky and avoided any collisions.

    April 8, 2009 at 7:32 am #627313
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    Jon Burrage

    Just the occassional
    Just the occassional pedestrian who thinks “oh its a bike and not a car so if I walk out in front of it I wont get hurt”. Getting hit by a bike at 30mph has got to hurt as much as a car, surely? Bikes arent smooth, dont have bonnets to roll over etc.

    Then when you suggest looking or at least waiting for a bike to pass you get abuse and cans of stella thrown at you…

    April 7, 2009 at 9:58 pm #627311
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    thebikeboy

    So was there a child in the
    So was there a child in the pushchair? Man or woman pushing it – maybe they didn’t know you were in there before they entered…

    April 7, 2009 at 9:34 pm #627309
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    Barry Fry-up

    That sucks. The other day I
    That sucks. The other day I had a go at a teenager who buzzed across a pedestrian crossing at about 20mph and nearly took out a mum and child on the way to school. he was wearing one of those gym bags with the string straps so i grabbed them at the lights and gave him an earful. I reckon that’s road wrath, not road rage… X(

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