Cyclist punched from a car and husband pelted with eggs on Sunday morning ride

I've had few instances of people leaning out of their car window and shouting just to give me a fright. It's worked every time but I've always (just about) managed to stay upright. I asked the CTC's legal expert whether what these people are doing is illegal and the response I got was as follows:

"There is no specific road traffic offence for deliberately distracting another road user, so this would probably come under Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986, which covers intimidating, threatening or abusive behaviour."

Might be worth mentioning that to the police if any of you are unfortunate enough to have to report an incident of this nature.

Having looked at the original story, I think it is possible that the attack was carried out by serious roadies that weren't convinced Stephen Collopy had earned the right to wear the jersey.

When I was out for a ride recently, someone mentioned the CRC, i.e. "Cyclists' Revenge Club".
I mentioned this "club" in a post a few days ago, as if it was my idea, hoping I'd get some replies, but had no one commenting on it.
Does anyone know anything about it ?
The revenge wouldn't of course consist of physical revenge. That would be illegal.

This happened 3 weeks ago.. Why is this today's news?

I have ridden 20 times since this happened and have neither been pelted with eggs or punched.. Over here people carry guns and I have not been shot at either…

DOes anyone else think road.cc like to distort the news.. I posted this on another similar thread..

“If you see lots of shark attacks in the news, you think, 'Gosh, sharks are out of control.' What you should think is 'Gosh, the news loves to cover shark attacks.”

--David McRaney, You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

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It is very unfortunate that road crime is seen as minor in the UK. Attacking someone , anyone, should be viewed as a jailable event. Its shameful that swearing at the police can get you arrested, but attacking someone one a bike is often ignored even with vidio footage.

"I'm sure these guys were deliberately out to cause trouble."

Understatement of the decade.

While I never advocate actual violence, reading stories like this makes my blood boil (and fantasise about chucking my heavy duty d-lock through the miscreants' windscreen).

Not sure about custodial sentences, but a life ban for the driver would be just.

It really does make cycling with a fake machine gun strapped to your back sound quite appealing, even a massive water pistol. Trouble is, you just know that the police would be down on you like a black man in 1950's America. Way to scary to think that cyclists might want to defend themselves.
Cyclists are the new 'racial' target, it's the only group that people that way inclined can pick on without fear of any real consequence.

Try the camera from Decathlon , G-Eye 720p £80 and is great quality.

Here's one of mine so you can see the quality of video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG4Mv55FCfs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

I previously posted the name and address of someone who has been punished by the law for this behavior (which has not changed) and told not to post names and addresses I would love to put it up here and have is stay we ought to be able to at least put registrations up.

I recently had a waterbomb thrown at me from a passing car, all caught on camera in full HD, including a very clear shot of the Reg plate and the fact that the driver threw it at me. I reported this via 101 and was interviewed at home by two PCs. The case was closed off as a non-crime. The driver wasn't interviewed our even had a letter sent to him.

I've written to the Borough Commander, and copied in my MP, but I'm not optimistic of a response.

Maybe cyclists need to take a cbt in taking number plates, seeing too many instances of "didn't get the plate" - it's not difficult

I'm saving up for a helmet cam, not because of things like this, but to capture fun moments when I'm out with me buddies and because of a hit an run last year. But it certainly makes you wonder about getting one for the sole reason of hate incidents like this.

I doubt that anything would happen to them if they did get caught. Vermin.

I was nearly driven off the road twice in about a minute yesterday, whilst cycling in a "full time" bus lane- the vehicles legally shouldn't have even been there. One seemed upset that I kicked his headlight (no damage- I was wearing street shoes, not ones equipped with cleats).