… on purpose … I dropped back after the 1st and wiped me visor … back up to speed … the twonk did it again … he thought it was highly amusing … he even gave me a 2 fingered salute as he turned left out his window …
Just teasing . I was squirted yesterday too and it smeared my visor (but better that than getting comma screen wash in your eyes from having your visor open ). I always overtake cars on this stretch. I was waiting to see if the boys in blue were hiding behind their usual hedge…
… it’s not as if I antagonise people when I ride, and I wouldn’t lower myself unless I was really pee’d off
It begs the question though, are female riders more vunerable than men ?
I don’t want to appear as an easy target, but what do I do to avoid being targeted ?
If male drivers think that we are easy targets, I pity them as that’s just malicious
A friend of mine was recently victimised by this kind of behaviour, however the driver didn’t know that her better half had gone for a blat and was waiting just up the road for her to catch up … he was sorry when he caught up with him though and made him turn off up a one way street … priceless
Reminds me of years back I knew a guy who cycled everywhere, and he had an aerosol air horn attatched to the handlebars of his bike - a bit louder than a bell shall we say.
One morning was was cycling along and a couple of blokes in a car cut him up and shouted loads of abuse, for no apparent reason.
A little further along the road was a set of traffic lights and lo and behold who should he catch up with ?
Anyway they still had the window of their car open so he unhooked the air horn and stuck it in their window and gave a mighty blast.
I’ve got a ‘friend’ and he uses his leg like a lance when pissed off by motorists, lines his boot up with the wing mirror and a quick blast of the throttle and away comes the mirror. I wouldn’t reccomend it, two wrongs and all that.