Video: San Francisco Critical Mass cyclists attack car

Felixcat you are a twit. You wont know why but let me assure you, you are, or you are a child, hiding somebody's keys how adult is that!!

Cycling against traffic? Why would you do that? What point are you possibly going to prove by doing that?

I'm usually an advocate of helmet cams and confronting bad drivers (in a non-violent way), but the poor driver was just trying to get out of the way and wasn't endangering people. Those cyclists look like a bunch of thugs and they just bullied that poor woman.

It's one thing to slow/stop the flow of traffic, but they looked unnecessarily antagonistic. At least no-one got hurt.

Real big man. Probably spent the rest of the night bragging about his bravery. Dick.
If he'd tried that obnoxious behaviour here in England someone would have stepped off the pavement/out of a car and given him a lesson in manners, probably resulting in surgery required to remove that D-lock.
I wouldn't stand by and watch that happen, no right thinking person would.
That sort of poor excuse for a man doesn't represent genuine cyclists who want to share the roads. Hopefully someone will out him via the video and he'll get his collar felt.

What a bunch of bell ends..... I really feel for the woman in the car. I hope she presses assault charges.

Let's do everything we can to turn this into tribal warfare, then we'll be safe on the roads.

Ffs.

If I were in her position I'd have invited them to have a look at my Roadcc sticker
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Cyclists drive cars too.

Idiots. They engineered that situation and cornered the woman. What did they expect her to do?

If they want changes to the law then they should lobby the authorities / politicians. Aggressively harassing other members of the public is not going to help their cause.

Cyclist breaks traffic laws, car-driver uses car as weapon. "Real" cyclists snuggle down tighter on their (saddle-less) seat posts.

Disgusted, these aren't cyclists they are moron's who are riding bikes.

Complete idiots pushing back any good will to the dark ages (when bikes had steel frames).

It doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet but the initial protagonist left the crossing and cycled the wrong way up the road towards the female driver. To me this indicates he was clearly looking for confrontation.

I'm definitely on the more militant end of the spectrum, but these guys are being idiots. Admittedly it might be nice to turn the tables on motorists, and bully them. And unlike a punishment pass, smashing in someone's windows isn't going to kill them. So part of me is cheering them on. But... the motorist wasn't really aggressive, and must have been pretty scared when surrounded by those guys. Unnecessary, bullying and stupid.

Aggressive driver, or merely frightened?

I was at a Critical Mass where a woman tried to drive around the cyclists on the pavement. They quickly moved to block her and she got out of her car to harangue the demonstrators. They argued back, so the row made good TV for the cameras.
I noticed she had left her engine running and door open. Its illegal to do this, so I reached in and turned off the engine. I noticed a handy drain grid, but reluctantly pushed the keys under her seat. Everyone else's attention was elsewhere.
When she returned to the car she missed the keys of course, and started shouting about it. I joined in, "She's lost her keys."
She eventually discovered them. "Its alright, she's found them."
Childish I know, but she was that sort of aggressive driver who makes the roads unpleasant to share.

She appears to be using her car like a tank to plough through the cyclists, smashing the front of her car to make her aware of what she is doing could be argued to be a reasonable response. I don't think using something that is going to cause damage to the car is a wise idea though.

Really brave surrounding & attacking a lone woman. Dicks

That's what keeps putting me off about critical mass. I know it attracts a good natured crowd. It also seems to attract dickheads.

From what I have seen of the London rides, there's more alcohol than there used to be. Apart from whether that's wise from a safety view, not everyone is a happy drunk.

Wankers. Tried that if it was a beefy guy in the car? Doubt it.

If the BNP were holding a protest march and beat up an asian person who got in their way how would that be portrayed? Far from hurting the BNP it would likely hurt anyone who held views on the right of the political spectrum.

In the same way this hurts the majority of cyclists who are NOT on a critical mass protest.

For my part when I have something to get off my chest about the cause of cycling I drop by my local MP's and councilors surgeries and make a nuisance of myself. I reckon if more people did that we wouldn't be looked upon as renegades.