Three Superbike stars were threatened with a meat cleaver in Melbourne, Australia, in a road-rage incident while they were cycling.
Northern Irishman Jonathan Rea, Frenchman Fabien Foret and Australian Andrew Pitt were out on a training ride Sunday ahead of the first round of the Superbike World Championship on Victoria's Phillip Island later this month when, they claim, an irate bus driver attempted to run them off the road.
"We went for a bit of a ride and on the way back we were cut off by a bus," Pitt told Melbourne radio station 3AW.
"He missed us by centimeters — he had to be doing it on purpose. Then he stopped a few meters up the road and we ran up to confront him. He just sort of waved his arms and said we shouldn't be riding there."
Pitt said a teenage male on the bus then pulled a meat cleaver out of his bag and threatened them.
"I don't know what the world's coming to when kids run around with meat cleavers," Pitt said, adding that the situation was eventually diffused by the bus driver, who closed the doors and drove away.
It is the second high-profile road-rage incident involving cyclists this year in Australia, after cricketing great Shane Warne was involved in an altercation with a bike-rider while in his car last month.
