This is the moment a man jumps on a primary school worker’s motorbike and grabs her hips in front of his laughing pals.
Ellie, who would not give her surname, was left horrified when an ‘inappropriate’ man ran into the road in Manchester city centre and hopped onto her motorcycle without her consent.
The 32-year-old uploaded a video of the incident online and received a wave of support from social media users who branded the man ‘vile’.
Footage – captured on her friend Charlotte’s bike helmet camera on September 12 – shows Ellie waiting in traffic on Oldham Street on her bright green Kawasaki ER-6F bike.
Dressed in all black with a black helmet, the biker revs her vehicle as she gets ready to start moving again.
Then, from nowhere, and in front of crowds of passersby, a man dressed in blue jeans and a grey jacket dashes from the pavement to the middle of the road and mounts the bike behind Ellie.
Steadying himself, he then grabs the stunned biker’s hips, as screams of surprise ring out among the bystanders.
Ellie then shouts and gives the man a slap across the face with her right hand, holding out her palm afterwards incredulously.
This is the moment a man jumps on a primary school worker’s motorbike and grabs her hips in front of his laughing pals – before she slaps him and he hops off the bike
Ellie, pictured, who would not give her surname, was left horrified when an ‘inappropriate’ man ran into the road in Manchester and mounted her motorcycle without her consent
He then grabs his ear in apparent pain before jogging back towards a bar where his friends are waiting for him and laughing.
The biker fires a sharp glance at the gaggle of men and shakes her head in reaction to the unpleasant incident.
While waiting at the next set of lights, Ellie tells her friend, ‘I am shaking,’ before the pair mock the man’s pained reaction to the slap.
The primary school employee has claimed her ‘survival instincts’ kicked in once the man was on her bike.
‘Never would have happened if I was with some of the guys,’ Ellie, from Salford, said.
‘A man jumping onto a woman’s bike without consent is weird.
‘I was so focused on not dropping the bike I genuinely didn’t even process how inappropriate the whole thing was until afterwards.
‘Gave him a good whack though, so at least the survival instincts kicked in.’
Ellie shared the outrageous footage online, where the clip racked up over 387,000 likes.
She captioned it: ‘Someone come get their grandad. He’s out here touching women and bikes.’
The footage begins with Ellie sat on her bike solo hile she waits for the lights to change
But the footage – captured on her friend Charlotte’s bike helmet camera on September 12 – shows Ellie waiting in traffic before the man comes out of nowhere and climbs on to the green bike
Undeterred, Ellie gives him a slap without even getting off the seat of her ride
He puts his hand to his face, showing off the full efect of her slap, before ismonting in front of his laughing friends
Ellie and her bike in happier times. ‘A man jumping onto a woman’s bike without consent is weird,’ she said
In response, one person wrote: ‘He wouldn’t do that to a man.’
Another viewer added: ‘Drunken over 40s men are so embarrassing. You didn’t hit him hard enough.’
Another wrote: ‘The way his friends are all laughing in the background too. It’s vile what men will do to women just to impress other men.’
And one social media user added: ‘This is disgusting oh my God, where do these men get the audacity?’
* Do you know the identity of the man? E-mail sam.lawley@dailymail.co.uk
