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There is a degree of ambiguity in the rules relating to bike-to-bike contact, which goes back to the original 'like to like is permitted', and the 'don't be a dick' thing.
As I said above, my own personal view is that we are playing a ball sport that happens to take place on bikes, as opposed to a bike based game like foot-down, so we should be making contact with the ball a key component of deciding whether a given incident is a foul or not. Intent should not, in my view, be factor in determining whether a foul is called, or what the penalty is.
Pretty much any contact body to body which is not incidental to playing the ball is now frowned upon, so it's clear that bike to bike contact should be treated the same way.