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No amount of name-calling will get me off my bike

27 Sep 05:50am

Filed under: Bike Rage, Bikes, Cycling, Health, Roads, Rules, Traffic

Supposedly I’m a menace and a f*%king idiot. Why? I’m not really sure, but I think it’s because I ride a bike around Sydney.

I'm too busy getting fit to hear what you're shouting at me. Photo: Aaron Francis

I wear a helmet. I ride on the left side of the road. But, I have a cheap hybrid bike that can’t move all that quickly, and sometimes, when it’s dusk, I don’t put my lights on.

Last week two men in cars started yelling at me while I was on my bike. This isn’t unusual, it happens a lot, and I’m quite used to it.

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John Torkildsen says:

07:41pm | 27/09/12

Fair enough I’ll stop hogging the road on my bike & take my Ford F350 truck & trailer instead - its a bit bigger & slower then my bike but at least you wont have to suffer my selfishness. Happy now? Read more »
LC says:

06:26pm | 27/09/12

So what Jason? If the positions were reversed, they’d have found me through my rego and I’d be hauled in front of a judge. I couldn’t do that here. Do crime statistics show that driver-on-driver road rage is a bigger problem than driver-on-cyclist road rage? Yes they do. That does… Read more »

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