I had the experience of a pedestrian trying to grab my bike when I was going at speed a few months back. Had to dodge into the middle of the road to avoid him, not fun (ended up screaming "what the fuck?" in his general direction). However, a) it was a very busy road and b) he was obviously drunk, so it didn't really scare me in the shady guy sense. (ETA: I think he was yelling something about "give me a lift!" so, yeah, drunk.) Brrrr. *offers hugs*
...somewhere in my head I always figured that you're relatively safe when cycling because stopping you generally entails getting injured as well. Frightening to think that someone obviously doesn't care.
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I had the experience of a pedestrian trying to grab my bike when I was going at speed a few months back. Had to dodge into the middle of the road to avoid him, not fun (ended up screaming "what the fuck?" in his general direction). However, a) it was a very busy road and b) he was obviously drunk, so it didn't really scare me in the shady guy sense. (ETA: I think he was yelling something about "give me a lift!" so, yeah, drunk.) Brrrr. *offers hugs*
...somewhere in my head I always figured that you're relatively safe when cycling because stopping you generally entails getting injured as well. Frightening to think that someone obviously doesn't care.