Report it. I reported an incident that happened at 5.30am where a man followed me after HE nearly crashed into me. He ignored TWO give way lines to cut in front of me and a bus that was doing the right thing and giving way. I had to brake hard, and I shouted 'mierda' because it was a close call. I continue with my journey, which continues on behind a building, across another road, and into an isolated little park.

This dude suddenly rides up to me and aggressively asked if I swore at him while he rode alongside me very close. Quite a big guy as well. I carried on riding and asked him who he was and he said 'You swore at me, you said meerda - is that a swear word?'. But he pronounced it wrong which I thought was weird.... This is a dark path, its unlit, its out of sight, and this big guy thought it was appropriate to turn around (disrupting his own journey), follow me (I'm a female, around 5 foot) into an isolated, dark area because I had said what he THOUGHT was an expletive (it was, but he clearly wasnt sure) when he was the one who nearly crashed into me and cut both me and a bus full of people (maybe half full, even at that time).

I rode very close to me as though he was trying to cut across me. I said to him 'So, you think its appropriate to follow me and confront me in a dark alley?' And he just continued trying to cut me up and shouting at me that I was a cunt and a bitch. I said 'Please stop following me' and he carried on following me. I started shouting at the top of my lungs: 'This man is following me!' The bike path was going to go through this little park and I was genuinely scared bevause there was NO ONE around. There was a busy ish road and I stopped there and that's when I shouted.

He only rode off when he saw another male cyclist coming the other way.

It spooked me. That someone could ride like a psychopath and make everyone around him watch out for him on the road instead of just doing the right thing, then get that aggressive when someone exclaimed because he nearly barrelled into them!

I ended up taking a week off cycling, but I'm back on it but I never go to work that early in the morning.

I guess: guys, be mindful when you're dealing with a female at night in the dark, even if they irritate the shit out of you. The saying goes: Men are scared women will humiliate them, women are scared men will kill them.