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(This happened in York)
I was riding a long a shared bike and foot path yesterday. Came up behind a group of 15/16 year olds, walking across both the bike and foot path sides. I said “excuse me” twice, one of the ladies turns round, sees me grabs the arm of one of the guys and pulls him to the side. As I ride through they tell me I could of said excuse me, I reply saying I did twice and the lady heard me. This just led to them shouting loads of abuse. Then one of them tries to run after me, I shout “run faster” as I ride off.
Then again today I come across the same group on the same shared path. This time we are coming towards each other. They don’t move at all and I slow down to try to ride around them on the muddy grass. As I get on the grass one of them pushes his bike in to me, which causes me to fall. The whole time they are shouting abuse.
30mins later I see them again and this time one of the girls tries to kick me off my bike while I’m riding in the road.
I called 101 to report it, I couldn’t give much of a description. Typical 15/16 year old chavs with grey/black track suits and hoods pulled up.
At home now some ice on my ankle as it’s massively swollen and a few bruises on my shin and knee.