Bikejacking on Kingsland Road

There are so many arseholes out there, little idiots that are nothing but cowards, thats why they hang around in gangs, so they can bully and intimidate people, because they would be too scared to do it on their own.
Be vigilant out there and I think the best advice given here is anticipation, prepare for the worst and hope for the best, getting into a confrontation with these idiots is the last thing you want to do, and after having seen it first hand I will tell you why.
You might be a tough nut, you might kick the shit out of them there and then, but a lot of these little wankers are part of larger gangs, or have lots of other idiotic friends around them.
So as great a thing as you feel you might have done at the time, imagine your surprise next week when after seeing where you cycle/hang out travel, they are waiting round the corner of a road to jump you, except this time they're there with 10 of their mates, tooled up and waiting to pay you back for hurting their worthless pride, now you're really fucked.
Worse still, they catch you with your girlfriend, and she gets a knife to the kidney or something equally as nasty, i'm sure you'd feel really good about winning "that little fight" then, as she's bleeding away in front of you.
No matter how big and tough you are, sometimes you need to think about the bigger picture before you get involved in these things, and the consequences for other people, not just yourself.
Fighting should be the last option when you have no where else to go, unless you want to be continually watching your back.

I agree with you, but my actions weren't thought through, they we're completely reactionary. I guess my instincts lean more towards fight rather than flight.