Man cycling with family hit in face with bottle by passer-by

Some people take offence at cyclists on the pavement. (Even - as may be the case here - it's "we already squeezed non- motorists to the edges, our streets are too narrow after providing for motorists, fight it out amongst yourselves" - AKA shared space).

Some people take offence at others cycling on the carriageway. Sometimes even if in a cycle lane.

Some people just take offence to others. This might be one of those.

Owd Big 'Ead wrote:

Cycling on the pavement? Not condoning violence but the editorial states that the incident happened where the pavement narrows.

Eh? Not sure how you got that out of it, the report states that the conflict came "when they passed a large group of people at a point where the pavement narrows." My assumption was that because it was a large group of people they spilled out onto the road and someone then got cross with the family of cyclists coming through on the road. Either of us might be right but it certainly isn't unequivocally stated that the family were on the pavement.

Either way, these bastards set on a man cycling with his family and smashed a bottle in his face, so fingers crossed they're caught and properly punished.

Exactly!
Light on detail.
Just like me you've made an assumption, doesn't mean it's right.
I'm not suggesting that I'm right either, however what I do agree with is that they should be brought to justice and punished accordingly.

the little onion wrote:

Thanks, Shapps

While I can only concur with your observation that Shapps the Sh*t's comments will increase friction between cyclists and other people, this happened a couple of weeks ago.  More likely the result of the non-UK domiciled billionaire owned, cycle-hating media.