WHAT THE HELL???

That's the thing about calling someone a "fu#$ing Punk"......you better be ready to fight,  because to some people that's worth fighting over.  I'm not saying it's right, but that's how it can go. 

So is your "WTH?" in regards to the cyclists or the Audi driver?

IMO, the cyclists should have not chased him down, remiknds me of the old saying

Don't start none, won't be none!

x2

I'm sure the audi driver was in the wrong being in the bike lane.  However, if your willing to race through traffic (and pedestrians) on your bike to confront the guy, you'd better be able to back it up.

Haha there was some pretty hyped up vernacular in the article. "Horrified bystanders looked on at the sickeningly violent scene." What a joke, the guy got pissed off and then got a love tap to the face. Perhaps the video cut off before the vicious curb stomp?

Sure the car was wrong, but I have never understood cyclists who think they are going to win a fight with a car. Move on. 

Naw, it was just a left cross.  If the passenger would have had bear mace he'd have laid the biker out.

I wonder how it goes when you get home after that?

Do you just come right out and say you got the swollen face because you got your arse handed to you by some guy you mouthed off to, or do you say you stood up for bikers everywhere and really duked it out with some azzhole in an Audi?  Or maybe your wife/girlfriend already knows you're a dumbarse and probably figured someone dotted your eye no matter what you tell her.

His cats don't care either way...

LOL....damn.

Originally posted by strykergt I remember back in the early 90s i would have done the same thing as the Rider did only diff is i am holding my hand pump on the other hand and back in the days those are long steel Handpumps.

You used to ride for Cinzano, didn't you?

Originally posted by strykergt

Originally posted by moondawg14

Originally posted by strykergt I remember back in the early 90s i would have done the same thing as the Rider did only diff is i am holding my hand pump on the other hand and back in the days those are long steel Handpumps.

 

You used to ride for Cinzano, didn't you?

Ryan Thats Funny!! I know that movie "Breaking Away" 1979 just watched it the other day at Netflix.

Wow.  I just watched this the other day too.....  Strange coincidence.  I tried getting my 10 year old to sit through the movie and appreciate it for it's 70s awesomness.  He was not amused.

There's a couple different reasons for the bike boxes.  They're supposed to reduce collisions between cyclists going straight through an intersection and cars turning right (or in this case since it was in England, cars turning left).  They also help cyclists who want to make a left turn by giving them a safe path to the middle of the street, instead of working their way from a bike lane on the right, through moving traffic, to a left turn lane.  Finally, they're actually supposed to speed up the flow of traffic, especially when there is no bike lane (like in the video).  Without one, cyclists will be interspersed with vehicles, so when the light turns green a car goes, then the cyclist behind him gets started, then two more cars, then the cyclist behind them get moving, etc.  With a cycle box, the cyclists will all gather together at the red light and then start moving at the same time.  

You have to keep in mind, bikes are a much bigger part of life over there.  Higher gas prices, less urban sprawl, and they don't have the American love for the automobile means the cities go out of their way to design for bike traffic.  Compared to over here where we design our streets to move as much vehicular traffic as possible, and if there's any right of way and budget left over they might paint a bike lane.  I'm not saying the American way is wrong, just that our city engineers are working to please a whole different mindset than theirs are.

I agree with most of you.  If you are going to pound on someone's window, curse and call names, and try and act like a "tough guy"...  Better be ready if it goes down.  Also, never know who's pack'n these days.

The rider was obviously fine if he could chase down the driver.  Maybe a bit mad or scared if the driver did something reckless, but physically fine.  Now, after acting like a tough guy, isn't so physically fine. 

Yup

Most "tough" guys re-evaluate just how tough they are once they get popped in the mouth.

This is kind of like the bicycle version of the motorcycles chasing the dude in the range rover.

The car was definitely in the wrong going into the bike lane, but from that point on it's all the bicyclists in the wrong as far as I'm concerned.  I'm kind of glad the guy got popped.