We've all been there - quite happily cycling along the road when out of the blue a car, saving a precious few seconds rather than waiting until we've passed a junction, drives past and cuts us up. Mention to many avid car drivers that you cycle to work and you will often be met with a mixture of disbelief and distaste. And then recounting the tales of having run the gauntlet each morning to work colleagues garners little other than questions as to why you cycle when the roads are so dangerous.

Blowing off steam isn't easy - and then came Raging Bike. The name itself strikes a chord with the feeling of many cyclists and delving in you find that you are certainly not alone.

Tales of near misses, cyclicidal driving and plain ignorance get regular airings - and it's all thanks to one man and his breached breaking point.

City Cycling talks to Euan, the man whose bike rages.

Euan, 43, Edinburgh, Specialized, Edinburgh Bike Co-Op, British Eagle.

.when did you first get into riding?

When I was 4, then a bit more seriously living in Belgium as a teenager.

.do you commute to work on your bike?

Not as much as I would like given my current 120 miles commute, but I've commuted off and on since I was 19. On average 3 days a week over the last 25 odd years. I should add I am a driver as well.

.what prompted you to start the website?

For several years I had a 12 mile round trip commute from north-west Edinburgh to Leith for several years. Apart from the other cyclists at work, I had no way to express my anger at the inconsiderate, careless and downright murderous behaviour of car drivers. In the last 20 years I have been hit and/or been deliberately targeted by drivers innumerable times, many of these incidents were in cycle lanes. Initially I wanted RB simply to be a forum where cyclists could let off steam, but I felt by showing cyclists how they contributed to lowering greenhouse emissions could be a positive step. The emissions calculator is a fairly nice piece of code. We also built a groups emissions calculator for companies to measure their savings when introducing cycle policies. And for those of us with spreading waistlines it was essential we put in the calorie counter and BMI measurements!

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