Good driver vs Bad Driver

[flibbage0]

OP: What kind of batty boy has a video camera on his push bike?

I just don't understand why. I drive a car and don't have a camera installed for when a cyclist jumps a red light and nearly hits me.

Hahaha.


On a serious note, I just passed my test and you are advised to leave about a cars open door width.(If you have a lambo murci don't count )

 

[Shimmy]

I'm doing a coast to coast in 2/3 weeks and I've spent the last month backpacking around Europe. Plus I'm using big MTB tyres at 30-40 psi because some of the route is off road.

Should be fun

 

[hurfdurf]

OP: What kind of batty boy has a video camera on his push bike?

I just don't understand why. I drive a car and don't have a camera installed for when a cyclist jumps a red light and nearly hits me.

This is certainly a post

 

[Dogbreath]

It sounds to me like you want excuses to moan about other road users.

This is exactly why I made the response I did on the OPs first post. Bad driving exists everywhere, the OP is not special in encountering bad drivers so why does he feel the need to post videos of it?

Post them to YouTube and revel in the comments left on there if you have to, but please lets not clog up the Motors forum with this crap.

 

[Rybo89]

Some cyclists have balls of steel.... Riding down dual carrige ways, country roads, getting stuck in on big round abouts. Clearly got a death wish and hopefully have a will ready for when they end up under a lorry.

No way would i ever cycle on such roads.

 

[ubersonic]

It's been a few years since I passed my test now, but when taught to drive I was always told to try and leave a cars width between myself and cyclists when overtaking

I was taught to leave the same room I would leave a car, which is about 1.5-2 m.

Aren't they the same thing?

 

[Dr House]

You seem to be more hassle then its worth, why don't you just drive to take the bus and save the biking for the weekends.

 

[lordrobs]

I used to get this multiple times during my 2.8 mile commute normally on blind bends. Basically cycling to work felt like an accident waiting to happen!

My solution was simple though, a 4.5 mile route through empty country roads and a closed off section of road that is now a cycle path If that option wasn't there I think I'd have just resorted to not bothering to cycle in. The fact that I now drive to work every day is more down to my own lazyness

 

[Dup]

I've no problem cycling on country roads (10 miles a day for 9 months) and then no problem blasting past them in the car. Never had an issue. We're not near any major built up areas though, just a few towns and villages.

Although cyclists who sit two abreast on a blind bed deserve to die.

 

[Django x2]

Pay road tax? No, then use a designated cycle path, or, take your moutain bike where it's supposed to be, off road!




/JOKES

 

[mikeh501]

Aren't they the same thing?

i was also taught that if they were doing 12mph or less then you could treat them as a static obstacle rather than a moving vehicle and therefore give them less room.

 

[PMKeates]

You are idiot though, come back when and say that when you knock someone off, smarmy ****

Please don't quote my posts; I fear your stupidity may be contagious

 

[Participant]

Interesting video OP, thanks for posting.

An awful lot of people in here not liking the fact that a cyclist has posted a video of examples of bad AND GOOD driving, for some reason. I can only imagine they're feeling a little bit sensitive because they know deep down that they are better at illustrating the former than the latter.

 

[Dogbreath]

Interesting video OP, thanks for posting.

An awful lot of people in here not liking the fact that a cyclist has posted a video of examples of bad AND GOOD driving, for some reason. I can only imagine they're feeling a little bit sensitive because they know deep down that they are better at illustrating the former than the latter.

Imagine what you like, that is your prerogative. If you want to see videos of bad driving, especially ones taken by cyclists then there are many, many thousands of them on youtube. It's just plain boring.

 

[Participant]

Yet here you are. I think it's interesting, there are loads of things in this forum that are also available elsewhere on the internet. Face it, you only dislike this because you dislike perceived cyclist propaganda.

 

[jon.bda]

I took exception to your previous post because you came across as yet another wannabe power ranger who thinks filtering is your right and not a privilege, if a car drivers fancies removing that privilege then more power to them

Go back and read that first post of mine again (which i might add wasn't even aimed at you), refresh your memory and you might realise that i was more concerned about that Ryan persons dad cutting a biker off on the exit of a roundabout and leaving him nowhere to go as 'teaching him a lesson'...i'm sure a passing policeman would have had more than a word had he witnessed that.

I didn't bother replying to you in the previous post because your level of retorting wasn't remotely interesting me and you were just rolling

You missed out a t somewhere there mate i'm sure, and given that your quality of argument consisted of...

"how's the weather, by the way how gay on a scale of 1 to 10 do i look in this leather"

?

Was it the power ranger comment or the part where I questioned bikers sexuality when they squeeze into their tight leathers?

Either way, my bad, truly

if only there was a forum where you could find like minded power rangers and you could exchange tales of extreme road rash and rain enjoyment

oh wait

Not remotely upset me chap, I'm enjoying my Sunday afternoon hangover watching breaking bad smirking to myself about last nights stag do antics

I'll not disguise my dislike for motorcycles, best thing I ever did was get knocked off my rs250, leather just didnt look good on me

In other news.....

bikers assemble!!

Damn, how cool do you look...

 

[Jonny69]

Lol @ the angry driver massive

Oo I'm so scared.

 

[Kenai]

jon.bda, your hardon for WillGill is getting incredibly boring now, just let it go

i can't believe a comment about bikers looking gay in leather has upset you so much

 

[jon.bda]

jon.bda, your hardon for WillGill is getting incredibly boring now, just let it go

i can't believe a comment about bikers looking gay in leather has upset you so much

It hasn't upset me at all mate, what does is people who cannot see anything wrong in literally running someone on two wheels off the road because they think that they have been somehow wronged because someone on a bike filtered past them.

Is it too much to ask for a decent reply to why this would be acceptable?, and don't mention hard on's or he'll just post even more random crap...