In the last couple of months I’ve started cycling for getting around the city where I live. Was enjoying it.
Yesterday I was on my bike cycling into the centre for a work event. Sat at traffic lights in the cycle area at the front of the queue. Traffic lights still on red when the car behind me starts beeping really long and repeatedly. I can also hear lots of jeering.
Traffic lights turn green so I go off, leaving loads of room for them to come past. They don’t. They carry on beeping and shouting at me before tearing past and cutting me up. I carry on but unfortunately catch up with them at the next traffic lights. Shouting, swearing and intimidation continues.
In the end they cut in front of me again and do an emergency stop causing me to nearly hit them.
No one else on a bike asks if I’m ok. Lots see it and go past.
I was so upset I got off my bike and haven’t used it since. It was such a pointless and nasty thing for these 2 twats to do, it’s really shaken me. Wish I’d got their reg as I would have reported them.
Whole experience was so uncalled for and left me not wanting to cycle again. Sorry for the rant, I just needed to tell someone as I haven’t told anyone else (everyone advised me not to start cycling for safety reasons).
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MindBodyChocolate · 18/07/2018 17:30
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