C*nt on LY07UVR, a red and white motorbike

Bod, if you want a sensible discussion, suggest you lose the attitude and just ride.

in all seriousness the problem is this:

a car driver does something stupid and dangerous. He hits another car, in the main, both cars are totalled, but everyone gets out and walks away.

a car driver does something stupid and dangerous. He hits a bike or motorcyclist. He walks away, cyclist / motorcyclist does not.

So, when another road user (bigger/faster/heavier) does something dangerous, it's not their own life they're gambling, it's the life of the (motor)cyclist.

It's not that they're wrong per se (though I would argue that the original poster found himself in a situation where the motorcyclist was wrong by deliberately attacking him) but that few other road users consider the fact that they're not really gambling their own lives but that of (motor)cyclists.

I would have thought you'd sympathise. If LY07UVR was a car, would you stick up for him?

+1

I would've thought motorcyclist would sympathise with the cyclists (as well as cyclists sympathise with motorcyclist), because of the greater risk of losing a life from a simple collision.