Bicycle and cars......incident

[MercuryT]

Was driving home today and saw a typically avoidable situation regarding an clearly entitled bike rider and overly aggressive 4wd driver.

So down main st in reasonable traffic it's traffic light to light but free flowing generally.

Bicycle guy sits in middle lane of 3 and all cars give space and move forward. Then at lights, same rider splits lanes and it happens all over again (he was doing maybe 25 in a 50 zone.)

Eventually a 4wd driver gets out and confronts him, leaving the bike rider on the ground held by the throat. Quickly broken up by others all of which gave the rider a spray.

Fair to say bike rider left the road quick smart.

I don't condone violence at all nor what happened but it's this kind of complete stupidity that gives bicycle riders a really bad image imo. Most are fine I'm sure.

Why he had to keep lane splitting for seemingly no reason whatsoever is beyond me.

It's no race when driving or riding on streets, but it shows a complete lack of respect for vehicles on the road imo.