Police seek road rage cyclist after fight with Uber driver

His bias has nothing to do  with:  https://twitter.com/DriveTribe who he's chief spokesman for whilst no one else employs him. Looking for a decent gig at the mail no doubt. Do not feed the troll.

I tweeted the beardy Shoreditch guy who ruined the USA Soccer Guy Twitter account. He tried to explain himself, but was unconvincing; he then tweeted a photo of himself on a bike to "prove" he's not fibbing and it all became clear...

He's a bloody casual triathlete.

I think I actually saw this fight - if it was on the Old Street end of Great Eastern Street westbound?

There was a cyclist, big but soft, helmeted, with a backpack, wearing cargo shorts and a casual shirt but looking more like a harmless tech nerd, trying to wrestle an unremarkable fixie with four-spoke wheels away from another guy, who was frantically trying to grab it and get to the cyclist. The fixie guy was saying "let go of my bike, let go of my bike" and was using it to defend himself from his attacker, who was trying to wrestle the bike off him. This went on for a while with the bike getting twisted around, dropped, jumped on, stepped on etc by the attacker. Eventually the attacker just sat on the bike. By this time they were in that square in front of the Yard pizza joint. Very ugly.

I was late for work so didn't hang about.

In the light of the above, could it be the same incident? If so, it was quite different to the twitter account. Very different. Looked like the fixie guy was defending himself from a frenzied attack.

> “The cyclist catches up when we're in traffic, uses his bike to carve a dent in the side of the Uber"

How is this possible?  Beyond dismounting and throwing the bike into the car, I can think of no way this can be done.

Maybe we can start a club, ride around and hand out beatings to dodgy drivers..

Full Tour Gear City Boys 

Coffee stops will include a ritual chant in ode to our Uber beating founding father.

I think I'll have two twatwaffles with a side of egging himon for Saturday breakfast.

I had to stop myself from extracting a private hire driver from his shell on Thursday morning. I really object to having the front end of a car directly in front of me while the rear is still beside me.
To be fair he did at least start indicating as he cut me up.

We all need to start riding flats for easy dismounts and a decent footing when trouble starts. 

I like fact that you wear riding kit means you're pretending to be in the TDF according to the beard clone twat. Yes, we all really do think we're in the TDF. Maybe the TDF rider just expected a sticky bottle?

I visited the site. It is a mere drop in an ocean of pointless clickbait.

I too want to find this big guy, dressed like he was about to win the tour de france (but was also a City boy type: pin-stripe suit...? phone in each hand...?)

Rather cyclists had a tough reputation than a soft one. More riders would get less hassle..

That's a terrible road for getting squeezed if you don't grow a pair. Over reaction from cycloman though. That gives us all a bad name.

Wasn't me guv

Surely every taxi driver runs a dash cam these days so it will all come out in the wash and this Richard beech's story can be ignored because he's obviously anti cyclist and a totally unreliable witness.

haven't you noticed that drivers can't stand drive behind a cyclist at 15mph in a busy environment, but have no problem standing still for hours in traffic jam ?

Don't forget that he started it with "What follows is a true story" . .  the twitter equivalent of "Once upon a time"
There is absolutely another side to this story. He aludes to it himself 

"Mr Beech said the cyclist sped off afterwards, but the driver went after him, despite his passenger urging caution. But after overtaking the cyclist again, violence broke out between the pair."  - Yes Mr Innocent Uber Driver "went after him" (road rage) and after overtaking violence broke out . .  Uber driver jumps out car and attacks cyclist. The fight was not IN the car

Beech seems like an unreliable witness at best.  

His langauge indicates a strong bias. 

Pretty much screwed himself over as a reliable witness there.

Something started it and his omission of it is the most damaging to his version of events. 

The scrap aside, Richard Beech seems a twat.

Bloody cyclists, randomly attacking poor innocent Uber drivers. Yeah, a likely story.

Cyclists don't normally attack cars for random things. I'm willing to bet that the uber driver did something dangerous that upset the cyclist. I gave up using taxis because they drive like psychos.

And the speed limit things is true. You can be bombing it down a long, slight descent, doing 30-35mph in a 30, and still get overtaken! I bet even Todd Reichert at nearly 90mph would get overtaken if he weren't on closed roads!

Mr Beech's testimony sounds a little off.

This is the bit that doesn't ring completely true:

https://twitter.com/BeechardRich/status/778170050784223233

"Then we get onto Roman Road, and cyclists are clusterfucking this guy like I've never seen before. It's like a swarm of bees"

Would seem to translate at "there were a lot of cyclists using this road"

"This one guy, who's dressed like he's about to win the fucking Tour de France is snaking around the road, so the Uber guy can't overtake him"

Probably translates as 'was riding in primary becasue Roman Road is too narrow to safely pass, was rush hour so road was busy (and it's a 20mph limit anyway so a 'tour de france' rider isn't going to be holding up mr Uber)

https://goo.gl/maps/TdFhoagBqF62

"Uber guy eventually overtakes, & the cyclist pulls up alongside him at the lights & calls him a "twat", then squirts his water bottle in car"

Uber guy forces his way past dangerously but of course as expected hasn't actually got anywhere so is promptly caught and overtaken again.   

After that who knows what the truth is - obviously it escalated badly but I really don't buy that this was completely unprovoked.