VIDEO of a pushbike-hating truckie deliberately drenching cyclists with water in the Sydney Airport tunnel has sparked a social media storm and calls for police to investigate.

The footage, which appears to be taken by the truck driver, opens as he spots a group of cyclists in the Sydney airport tunnel and laments he is not allowed to run them over.

“So we hate push-bikes, we are not allowed to run them over but we can f*** with them, so let’s have a crack,” the man says. He then goes on to overtake the cyclists, steering through a puddle at the end of the tunnel.

media_camera ‘Oh yeah, nothing better than f***ing saturating a pushbike rider,” the driver chuckled.

He cheers and cackles with delight as they are sprayed with water.

“Oh yeah, nothing better than f***ing saturating a pushbike rider,” he chuckles.

“My day is complete.” The video has drawn the ire of cyclists, who have taken to social media saying that the stunt put lives in danger.

“Yep it’s ANOTHER disgusting Road Rage incident towards Cyclists in Sydney!! Total disrespect for Human Life!! ?#?nowords?

“?#?whatiswrongwithyoudrivers?” Facebook user Jay Luke posted. One of the cyclists in the video has referred the footage to police.

media_camera “?#?whatiswrongwithyoudrivers?” Facebook user Jay Luke posted. Picture: Seven News

media_camera Outraged.... One of the cyclists. Picture: Seven News

media_camera Truck driver’s road rage over cyclists on the road in Sydney. Picture: Seven News

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Truckies have backed the driver, with the popular page Truckin Australia taking a dig at the cyclists.

“While we don’t condone doing this we did find it funny... If these riders were in the left lane they wouldn’t have been hit with water and the truck driver might of been a bit less of a prick,” the page posted.

“I say the truckie was too nice he gave them more than a metre when he passed.. Not his fault there was a puddle.” Truckin Australia has more than 65,000 supporters on Facebook and the post has attracted close to 400 likes and messages of support.

Originally published as ‘Can’t run em over, but we can f*** with them’