A young woman suffered serious injuries when two men allegedly threw her from a Citi Bike and beat her in Manhattan.

The incident happened at West 35th Street on Tuesday night when the culprits blocked a bike lane as the victim rode towards them on Eighth Avenue at about 10pm after she was returning home from dinner with friends.

The woman, who is in her twenties and asked to be identified only as Ina, said the men ran to her and laughed when she made eye contact with them, before knocking her off her bike and punching her.

A young woman suffered serious injuries when two men allegedly threw her from a Citi Bike and beat her in Manhattan

The men are seen brazenly walking away following the vicious attack on the Northwest corner of 35th street and 8th avenue in Midtown

'They came out of nowhere and started running towards me,' Ina told DailyMail.com Saturday of the Tuesday night incident. 'We locked eyes and they were smiling and laughing. I thought they were kidding around and would get out of the way, but they didn’t, they knocked me off' the bike.

Ina said that the two men were standing shoulder-to-shoulder so that they blocked the entire bike lane and were each about 180 to 200 pounds in weight.

'When they ran at me, at the speed that I was going at, we crashed really hard,' Ina said, adding that the incident happened so quickly, she didn't have any time to react or stop her forward movement.

'They both slammed into me, but the one who assaulted me had his hand positioned so that he hit my chest,' Ina said. 'If it had been just a body slam, I think I would have peddled away.'

Instead, Ina said that she wound up tossed off her bike.

'I asked them what the matter was and that's when they hit me,' Ina said. 'That’s when one of the guys said, "What the f** did you just say to me?' and threw a punch. He threw another punch when I was down on the ground and said, "That’ll teach you."'

Ina said that the man hit her in the jaw and that the force was so strong that the punch also connected with her shoulder.

The incident happened at West 35th Street on Friday night when the culprits blocked a bike lane as the victim rode toward them on Eighth Avenue. The woman suffered bruising and was badly shaken after the attack

The victim claim she feels lucky she was not more seriously injured during the violent ordeal

The incident happened when the culprits blocked a bike lane as the victim rode toward them on Eighth Avenue. The woman was cycling a Citi Bike (file image)

As the men walked away from her, Ina used her cellphone camera to record video of them in an attempt to document what had happened.

'I picked myself up off the ground and was acting on pure adrenaline,' Ina told DailyMail.com. 'I saw that nobody was going near them or stopping them as they were casually strolling away and I thought nobody was going to be believe me if I didn’t get a video, so I took a video. And I’m glad that I did: It was some sort of survival mode, "If you want to catch these guys you have to take a video."'

She later posted footage on Twitter and Reddit of two men walking away but their faces are not shown in a bid for the public to help identify them.

It shows the two men, who appear to be heavy set, walking towards a subway station. One is wearing a blue t-shirt while the other is wearing a white t-shirt.

In a Twitter post on Thursday, Ina wrote: 'I was a victim of violent physical assault. Please help me identify these men in the video. Was hit off my Citi Bike, and senselessly beat. Attack unprovoked. Happened Tue 9/10 9pm, NW corner of 35th & 8th. Same block as Midtown South Precinct. Any info would be appreciated.'

She said that she reported the incident to the police and claimed the men had several tattoos.

One man had a gun tattooed on his neck. She believes each man had full sleeve tattoos on their right arms.

Ina also shared photos of bruising on her shoulder and the cuts and scraps on her knees which were the result of the attack.

She said that the EMTs that tended to her immediately following the incident had wanted to take her to the hospital, but that she refused to go.

However, the next day, 'I woke up in tremendous pain in the shoulder where I got punched,' Ina told DailyMail.com. 'I went to the hospital, they took an X-ray of my shoulder and a CT scan of my jaw to make sure there were no fractures.'

Fortunately, there were no fractures, but she said doctors found deep muscle bruising in her shoulder, bruising and swelling to her temple, where she was also struck, and welts on her. She also suffered from cuts and scrapes on her knees as well as bruising.

Ina said that four days after the incident, she 'there's still dull pain,' but that 'it’s subsiding, getting better.'

She said that although she has lived in New York City for the past 10 years, she has never seen or experienced an incident like the one she said happened Tuesday night.

Ina said that although she has no idea why these two men targeted her, she suspects she was both the perfect victim and a victim of opportunity.

'I'm small, female, 5’3" and don’t look like someone who will retaliate and I didn’t retaliate,' Ina said.

'I didn’t go up to them and start hitting them or anything like that and that's exactly what they wanted - they wanted to pick on someone very small who they knew wouldn't be able to fight back or hit them back.'

'If I think about what happened, it kind of seems like they were waiting for a cyclist and when I came that’s when they ran towards me. Like it was a game to them,' she added.

Ina said that police had shown her boyfriend surveillance footage from Thursday, two days after her attack, from outside a pub near where the incident occurred.

In the footage, 'there’s a group of people running up and down that stretch of the street, putting their arms out and trying to knock cyclists off of their bikes,' Ina told DailyMail.com. 'We think they might have been part of that group. I think I was just there at the wrong time. I just happened to be on the bike and they were targeting cyclists.'

When asked why there is no audio on the video that she made public, Ina said: 'I had to mute it for myself because I didn’t want to hear myself in that state again. It was recorded right after I picked myself up off the ground. It's not something that I want people to hear either.'

She noted that the men didn't say anything in the video and that in the audio you can hear her 'yelling to a bystander to call 911 and yelling that they assaulted me.'

An NYPD spokesman told DailyMail.com that no arrests have been made and the incident remains under investigation.

He said: 'On September 10 2019, at 21.10, a 27-year-old female reported that she was riding her back north on 8th Avenue when an unidentified individual knocked her off her bike, intentionally pushed her to the ground and then punched her.'

Ina said that police have surveillance footage of her 'being assaulted and it did happen the way I said it did.'

'This is in no way a case of a pedestrian bumping into me [accidentally] and a fight breaking out,' Ina told the New York Post.

She said police told her that they're still working on finding a clear shot of the men's faces.

Ina said that the incident has left her scared and unwilling to bike around the city.

'I used to be an avid cyclist, but I don’t know about that anymore and I don’t know when I’ll get back on the bike,' Ina admitted.

'So far, since the incident, I haven’t been outside unless it’s to meet with the police and go to the hospital and when it’s necessary to go out. I just feel like I’ve lost trust in strangers and there’s just this looming sense of dread and fear and anxiety because I never would have thought that something like this would have happened to me in such a crowded area.'

She said that when she has been forced to leave her home in recent days, she's 'much more aware, jittery, paranoid.'

'Every time someone looks at me now, I get this feeling, this thought, "Oh, are they going to attack me, too?' I'm just trying to take it slow and heal, but definitely there’s this fear.'