‘Get off your bike and walk’: Female cyclist “petrified” after man grabs bike and refuses to let go “There's no way he would have done that if I weren’t a woman,” said Clare James, who was riding on a cycle lane at the time of the incident cycling
A female cyclist was left “petrified” and “visibly shaking” after a man confronted her while she was riding on a cycle lane. The man, who appears to have attended a nearby concert, grabbed the woman’s bike and told her to ‘get off and walk’. After a steward at the event intervened to fend off the attacker, another man “aggressively” jumped into the bike lane in front of the cyclist.
The cyclist also noted that the attacker ignored other people riding bikes in the lane, who she says were mostly male delivery riders. Following the two back-to-back incidents, Clare says she was targeted because she “stood out as a woman on a bike”. While Clare’s husband suggested closing streets to cyclists after concerts as a potential solution to the problem of harassment, she believes that “men’s attitudes towards women” were the root cause of the incidents, and that active travel to and from events should still be encouraged.
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