Help a guy out...

skoota I have wanted to do a 'ryan' almost everyday, infact i don't feel i've woken up in the morning until i've shouted my first 'WANKER!' and i don't cycle nearly as much as he does. Its not the amount of cycling its the fact that someone, anyone has no respect for my life. I know this because they jsut put it in danger for a yard o' tarmac. I had a taxi cut me up in the summer and scare the living bejesus out of me. I chased him down, (he had no idea, never saw me coming) i leaned in his window, about 2mm from his face and screamed and spit that he had just passed me, "at exactly this distance." He shit himself and screamed for me to calm down. I put the back of my hand 2mm from his face and repeated the distance he had passed me at, asked him if he liked it and whether it was scary? He said "calm down, havent you ever made a mistake?" I replied when i make a mistake it dosn't engdanger anyone's life.

This sounds almost identical (including the head in the window screaming with my nose practically touching his) to a situation I found myself in, except that I took the bloke's glasses off his head and smashed them in the road telling him he needs new ones as these are obviously not working.

Of course I would have looked like some very cool Clint Eastwood cycle vigilante if a massive bastard looking bloke (who had not witnessed the event leading up to the confrontation) hadn't got out of his car and chased me off like a scared kid cycling away on his battered bike with my handle bars at 45° to the front wheel.

Better all that than the idiot in the car being dragged through court for 8 months because he was a thoughtless idiot.