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@WillMelling
Of course if you are talking about aggressive cyclists then it's hard not to talk about Skully. Big Skully, Slasher Skully, Skull Crusher Skully, The Skullinator, he has earned as many nicknames as he has broken hearts, bones and pub urinals. It's doubtful than anyone before has turned a gentle hobby such as cycling in to force for evil in the way Skully has. Even that well known amateur guitarist and professional racist Eric Clapton didn't do as much harm to cycling's reputation when he brought a Colnago as Skully has done over the years. How many people have a restraining order banning them from both Evans and Cycle Surgery? Or an ASBO specifically prohibiting them from owning a pump of more than 5 inches in length?
It was Skully that persuaded the Kray twins to buy a tandem. And it was Skully that caused the Inter City Firm to turn up late for three consecutive away matches in the eighties when he organised their 'two wheeled ride of terror'. Rumours persist of Skully spiriting away Lord Lucan on the back of his curly Hetchins.
And yet, even as, once again, his trademark lurid pink and chartreuse Dave Yates is spotted outside the carnage of another smash and grab, another bank job gone wrong, another filming of Strictly, it's hard not to feel a begrudging affection for the fixed gear hooligan with the gurning face of a Charlie Drake prototype. A man who has infamously used a puncture repair kit for such cruel and unnatural purposes on victim after victim might seem hard to love but this Chris Ackrigg of the criminal underworld is ultimately one of our own. In the end anyone on two wheels riding over the legs of a screaming pensioner is a friend. And I think that says all that needs to be said about this wonderful obsession of ours.