Caught by Strava – US cyclist charged with malicious wounding after being identified from one of his recent uploads

I've cycle the WOD a few times, it really is easy to go 2x2 most of the trail. Surely a bit more to this story.

Amazing trail to ride, done it 3/4 times Reston to DC and back, first time I did it, hungover to buggery I was flagging badly & i came across a Whole Foods that had a cafe selling fresh pizza and craft ale. Heaven for a fat pedaller.

Sounds like a personal targeted attack to me

Fucks sakes that stretch is easy to go two by two, what's the matter with some people!
Though this does highlight one thing, to find an incident where a person on a bike did something that had a bad outcome for another Road CC had to dig deep to the other side of the Atlantic for 'news'.

Attacks on people by motorists and pedestrians in the UK are in the hundreds if not thousans per day.
And yet it always seems that those doing the least harm (remember only 4/20 ped deaths in the last 6 years were the fault of a person ob a bike) and generally just want to get from A-B without grief are targetted as the devils spawn in the media, in government and even by actions of most of the police. It's a fucking sick world we live in.

Loudoun* Times, otherwise it looks like a typo and is a bit confusing.

"He attempted to pass two cyclists and was riding on the centre line when one of the cyclists, who was travelling in the opposite direction, reached his arm out and hit his helmet."

A very confusing report.  Why would you ride on the centre line if you were approaching two cyclists riding in the opposite direction?  Surely you'd pull over to the right since that is the side of the road they drive on the the US?  But looking at the picture of the accused and having seen so many reports of rednecks attacking coloured people since Trump was elected, I'm tempted, with almost no evidence but lots of prejudice, that the victim was coloured.

He was passing in the center lane between 2 cyclists on a bike path and the guy in the opposite direction (Edward) wasn't happy.  Edward didn't like that he was too close to him (passing in the center lane) so he had a lapse of judgment (he's obviously psychotic) and turned to violence.  He was a ticking time bomb and got pissed off at the wrong time.  People can be very territorial on bike paths.  

I'm conflicted with this story. Did the helmet protect the victim (saved his life) or was he attacked because of it?

Re: "People dont tend to attack random strangers  without provocation or reason"

I'm guessing that you've never visted Bedford?

I wonder if he'll get a criminal record to go with his personal record.