Shame you weren't in Surrey I'm sure you could've taken your anger out on me as I was out this lunchtime, but then it's usually me abusing car drivers overtaking you on bends and driving to bloody close.

P.S. I'm only a passenger.

No cyclists but we found a young girl on horseback and wrestled her into the mud.

I used to cycle on country roads a lot when I lived near the country. Now I find it terrifying due to increased traffic volumes and modern vehicles that can be driven at high speeds without any accompanying skill or road sense. I feel far safer cycling in Central London where car and van drivers homicidal impulses are generally curtailed by traffic mitigation features, cameras and congestion.

I used to ride on country roads with a road bike but moved on to mountain bikes, cycling off road when it started to become dangerous on the roads. In the summer I refurbished two Marin 1990s bikes and now avoid any roads with cars. I had more problems with motorists when I was running. It wasn't unusual to get abused, or have things thrown at me from car windows. The people doing this tended to be obese and would not dare to approach me face to face. I used to run in races on Sunday mornings and motorists would go mad if held up for a few minutes when roads were blocked off for running competitions.

@Runninggeez. Italy also seems so positively different when it comes to tensions between cars and cyclists. Friendly
greetings, but no insults. At least that was my experience at a racing bike training camp in Cesenatico.
And if you ride an italian frame, then it is ... Tutto il rosa della vita.

I also tend to 'fly off the handle' very quickly and in recent years I've had to rein myself in because I can no longer be sure of not getting a beating.

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What about a 'pedestrian persecution' thread?  I have great fun with cyclists riding toward me on the pavement.  A game of chicken ensues.  Then there are the motorists who drive up and down here using the pavement in order to pass something coming the other way.  The English have discovered a lovely game of throwing their arms into the air and showing the palms of their hands.  Much verbal abuse fills the air - all to very little purpose.  But getting behind the wheel makes even quite gentle people like my wife aggressive.  As for parking across her space...