Risk assessment of assertive cycling

Mikey, I beg to differ

In my opinion you acted agressively not assertively towards that driver ; there is a difference. I came away thinking you had gone out for a ride looking for a bad driver to have a fight with.

Not the act of a gentleman cyclist is it?

I'm sure we'd all like to be the meek and polite one, but it's not easy after someone has barged past you with a 4,000 pound weapon like that, threatening your life. That's enough to make anyone angry, including yourself by your own admission that you've also done this. I wasn't angry at all before then, I was nothing more than a happy cyclist on his way home from work. It's a bit of a leap of imagination to assume I went looking for that incident, and I feel offended by that assumption.

To me, you come across as both personal and attacking, making your posts on this seem a little far from gentlemanly. You seem also to be following the description of drivers in TRL549 rather well, excusing the driver's behaviour by ignoring it, and focusing on what to me seems like a minor and very restrained reaction to some exceptionally bad driving. Is that fair comment, or am I misreading you?