<]:^D wrote:jiggles wrote:he didn't exactly lose his cool.
He was screaming and kicking the guy's car. What was that supposed to achieve?
He remained in control of his bicycle throughout and was able to cleanly dismount and put it on the ground. He was going slower than the car and has a smaller turning circle, so he
probably could have avoided contact entirely if he didn't get angry or affronted at the idiot in the car. I'm not saying he did anything
wrong, just that he made a meal of being
wronged.
i think youre seeing this from a unrealistically detached viewpoint. i dont know if you cycle but i only do about 20 minutes a day and im not exactly a high-risk cyclist and id say on average i get cut up or subject to a shitty driver about once a week. so i can understand him getting pretty pissed off in the moment.
I don't know if you drive, but I get cut up, am subject to a shitty driver or stupid pedestrian multiple times per
journey. I've had cars swerve in front of me so wrecklessly that it forced me out of my lane, people just walk out without even looking, parents waddle across a main road with their prams, and the local teens have taken up a craze of "stepping out" where they see a car coming and slowly cross the road in front of it to make it do an emergency stop. All this is strawberry floating infuriating, but the priority is always to avoid contact above all else.
If you let your emotions take the wheel, no matter how idiotic someone else is being, people's lives are at risk, so you put a lid on it. If this was two cars instead of a car + cyclist, I suspect we'd have seen a more determined effort to avoid a collision, and certainly the outburst wouldn't have started until after the incident.