Police release pictures of 'aggressive cyclist' in Bath who threatened and abused motorists

I do not condone his offensive behaviour in any way, shape or form, however? , . . ,
I do understand when your frustrations towards a few insensitive and dangerous drivers, boils over? . ... I have witnessed no amount of dangerous driving styles, acts of deliberate intimidation, downright ignorance and general dangerous driving towards pedestrians, cyclists, and other car drivers!!
Where will all this hatred towards each other end? How many deaths before we all realise that none of us own the road, and it is a privilege and luxury to be able to use the roads here??

Like others, I don't condone this cyclists behaviour, but as a female cyclist I'm subjected to vile abuse on a fairly frequent basis by drivers - not to mention being subject to dangerous driving every single time I venture out on to the road. I've given up reporting it to the police. I tried a couple of times but they couldn't have been less interested.

Anyhow, how do you end up with your cars wheels unintentionally in an ASZ? Had the driver been taken over by aliens for that part of the journey?

cycling site, bias, whatever

End of the day while this case has more "to grab onto" vs a dangerous overtake or aggressive behavior by drivers, fact is that that's acceptable whereas don't you dare kick off at a motorist.

Spitting is a bit ott in everyday terms, even if the driver did something not quite right.

The flaw is that the system appears geared to protect the stronger ones (cars etc) vs what should be the case of supporting and siding with the more vulnerable party. But I guess "justice" through law is just abstract and there are cases with blatant lack of it throughout the law if you are willing to look.

Having looked at the picture of the cyclist what comes to mind is that it appears to be taken from the drivers side of the car, therefore did the driver indeed take the image and if so should be issued with a fixed penalty notice for using a phone while driving!

So have they charged the motorist for their offence? Or are we having a Nigella moment by the police?

It's a shame the Police and driving public don't show so much interest when it is cyclists who have there lives put at risk and abuse given to them by motorists!
Not condoning the cyclists actions because lets be honest we don't have the full story (and not likely to through the article of some local sensationalising hack) when the Police sit on their arses and do bugger all about bad/anti social driving what do they expect cyclists are going to do.

They all look the same to me

Can't really praise his methods
however

"The other incident came to light when the first victim mentioned it to his friends in the pub and one of them said the same thing had happened to them.

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So perhaps we see a pattern

“There is no doubt that many other motorists would have witnessed what went on and were equally terrified by the bullying tactics of this offensive cyclist.

“On each occasion the drivers tried to speak to the cyclist, but he was not prepared to hear what was to be said and just continued with his vociferous ranting and intimidation.”

I wonder what could possibly drive someone to act in this way towards our universally considerate, careful and law-abiding motorists. How very odd. Hmm. Utterly baffling.

HA.

He sounds like a right charmer!