Bummer about the arm-grab thing. If he was enraged enough to forgoe thinking about the consequences he probably shouldn't be driving. Eventually, he probably will grab some other less experienced cyclist and we will hear about it on the news; you could have been seriously messed up if you had gone down.

Out of curiosity, are you a big guy? I find that people mis-judge how large or small a person is when they are on a bike and the couple of times I have had to stop and sort something out with a motorist, they were both surprised at how big I was. I am not huge or anything, 6'1, but I think that I appear to be smaller and this might contribute to their stupid behaviour, the whole suspension-of-disbelief while in their cars.

Do we all appear smaller on our bikes? Women cyclists must have a really hard time in Toronto as well because if someone is willing to **** with a guy my size, they wouldn't hesitate to give a female cyclist worse treatment.