I had a particularly unpleasant experience the other day. I was on my way to work, and waiting to turn right (remember i'm in the UK) into a main road from a side road. The traffic I needed to pull into was at a standstill so I went between a car and a van to the other side of the road. When the traffic started moving again the van I had crossed infront ofme overtook me the passenger leaned out the window and started shouting abuse "you stupid f****** b****" and so on.

I was shocked, but less shaken than i have been with other unpleasantries by drivers. the level of rage seemed so over the top it just made him look like a complete idiot. All i'd done was cycle relatively assertively. They were stationary and could clearly see what I was about to do.

On a slightly odder note, yesterday I had a more bizarre anti-cyclist incident (presumably by a motorist). My bike was locked up in central london while I went to an exhibition. When I went to collect it someone had built a little cage around it out of orange plastic panels usually placed around roadworks. There were 4 walls and one on top. then written in chalk on the pavement was:

"not paid road tax, tut tut",

with an arrow pointing towardsd my bike. Just really quite odd.