Riding broken

Really sorry to hear that, James--perhaps it's true what they say, that the hot weather breeds more aggression. :(

David will be in a better position to say what it was, but to me it sounds that he was simply following the Highway Code, not doing anything particular about road positioning. The rules concerning mini-roundabouts seem among the least-known rules in the Highway Code, judging here purely from my observations of people's behaviour around mini-roundabouts--very few people get it right. (That said, mini-roundabouts are a fairly nonsensical traffic measure. They rarely make sense, so people's confusion is understandable to a certain extent. One thing that always causes complete chaos is if someone is doing a U-turn at one (as they are entitled to).)

Riding primary does piss some drivers off (especially if the rider isn't communicating back) mostly they beep or sometimes swear. I generally put this down to them having their expectations of where a cyclists should be not met. also drivers must get fustrated by the stop start jammed nature of that form of transport with no physical means of working off aggression.

In the case of may incident I hadn;t been riding with that driver behind me for more than a few metres and i stopped at the roundabout as oliver suggested just in line with the highway code to give way. It was the passenger who attacked me and from his look (sorry aboiut the stereotyping here) White skinhead in what could have been an england football kit ,it may have nothing to do with my cycling but could have been something else .

I'm about to call the police to report back about the medical infomation and let them know that according to 2 of the witnesses he threw a penny at my head from the car window before he jumped out. It missed me and landed in the middle of the roundabout. Ihave the coin and hope it may have fingerprints