Thread: Lycra lunatic takes womans keys

This was a road rage incident. It is astonishing how many people there are here who are condoning it. You need to seperate the issues. If the woman was texting or something, sure, her bad. That is one issue. The other issue is some coward terrorising her because he could. The two things are seperate. If the cyclist is actually NOT a coward he will come forward and let the cards fall. I would have a reasonable bet that he won't. Most thugs are gutless. I suspect that this one is too. He has every chance to prove me wrong.

1980's I saw a Yellow Cab and a small Jap ute pull up alongside each other at the Vulture St.& Main St. lights in the Gabba. The cabby chucked a middle finger salute at the ute. The ute driver got out in about 4 layers, probably 6'5" and big. The cabby must have been ****ting himself hoping the lights would change. Ute driver strode around to the cab, opened the door, grabbed the keys, and threw them into the gardens outside the Dental Hospital, got in his ute and drove off with the next green light. Cabby left sitting in the middle of Vulture St, with every Tom, Dick and Harriet blowing horns and abusing him.

Such a story, she was minding her own busIness and then this just randomly happened. I still spect she is absolutely clueless about what's going on around her and she probably needs to be removed from the road anyway.

Originally Posted by johntins

This was a road rage incident. It is astonishing how many people there are here who are condoning it. You need to seperate the issues. If the woman was texting or something, sure, her bad. That is one issue. The other issue is some coward terrorising her because he could. The two things are seperate. If the cyclist is actually NOT a coward he will come forward and let the cards fall. I would have a reasonable bet that he won't. Most thugs are gutless. I suspect that this one is too. He has every chance to prove me wrong.

I don't condone her ignorance, and if she isn't a coward she would hand in her licence before she kills someone.

I think the biggest problem - which is shown here in this thread, and every thread that runs on cyclists, here and other Australian forums I’m on is the ‘Us versus them’ mentality that most come out with defending ‘their’ side to the death.

I’m sure that the woman involved here was oblivious to her surroundings and did something to cause the response from the rider, but his actions are reprehensible even if he did so it in the spur of the moment. BOTH of them, but at least the woman stopped to see what was going on, the cyclist in this case was IMO too cowardly to stop and discuss this which may have led to the woman’s actually learning something, instead she just ends up being the victim of a road rage incident - no winners there.

There are dumb and angry cyclists, dumb and angry motor cyclists, dumb and angry motorists. What we need to do is learn how to take a deep breath and all work towards making the roads usable by everyone in a safe and polite manner. No idea why we can’t do this here in Australia, Europe seem to have this down pat and all road users get along fine.

Despite who was right and who was wrong here, give cyclists a bit of room - it really isn’t that hard, and cyclists - don’t do dumb illegal **** in front of motorists all the time. If both of these things could happen there’d be a lot less problems and a lot less of the bull**** ‘us versus them’ mentality.

Until we can do that, we’ll be back here every time something like this happens going over the same old ground.

JUST HELP EACH OTHER OUT ON THE ROADS PLEASE, IT ISN’T HARD.

Originally Posted by Homestar

I think the biggest problem - which is shown here in this thread, and every thread that runs on cyclists, here and other Australian forums I’m on is the ‘Us versus them’ mentality that most come out with defending ‘their’ side to the death.

I’m sure that the woman involved here was oblivious to her surroundings and did something to cause the response from the rider, but his actions are reprehensible even if he did so it in the spur of the moment. BOTH of them, but at least the woman stopped to see what was going on, the cyclist in this case was IMO too cowardly to stop and discuss this which may have led to the woman’s actually learning something, instead she just ends up being the victim of a road rage incident - no winners there.

There are dumb and angry cyclists, dumb and angry motor cyclists, dumb and angry motorists. What we need to do is learn how to take a deep breath and all work towards making the roads usable by everyone in a safe and polite manner. No idea why we can’t do this here in Australia, Europe seem to have this down pat and all road users get along fine.

Despite who was right and who was wrong here, give cyclists a bit of room - it really isn’t that hard, and cyclists - don’t do dumb illegal **** in front of motorists all the time. If both of these things could happen there’d be a lot less problems and a lot less of the bull**** ‘us versus them’ mentality.

Until we can do that, we’ll be back here every time something like this happens going over the same old ground.

JUST HELP EACH OTHER OUT ON THE ROADS PLEASE, IT ISN’T HARD.

AMEN!!

I certainly don’t disagree with anything that’s been said , on both side of the coin really.
But when I watch a bike rider go through two sets of red lights, after squeezing past several cars,,, I really wonder about the mentality of them.

So we we have to give them a wide birth when passing them, but they can lean on our car to stop themselves from falling over after over balancing, because there’s not enough room between the gutter and us,, that’s quite ok 👍 🤬 No doubt we’d have been abused if it was the other way around.
Im sure if a car had gone through the lights, every man and his dog would have been up in arms, and rightfully so to.

There just seems to be a major arrogance factor with a lot of people on the roads these days, both cars and bikes.

Some of the posts in this thread, on both sides, are exactly what’s wrong with society today.