Almost hit a cyclist

cyclists and the white van should be done. White van parking on the bleeping corner and the cyclists for cycling on the wrong side of the road (and cutting across to make turn without any due care and attention..nearly causing an accident)...both a hazard to law abiding vehicles on her majesty's highways.

Get a large condescending sticker on your windscreen notifying other idiotic road users they are being recorded.

Send your dashcam to mr plod. Cyclists are on the road so should be treated same as other road users (penalty points, fines, bans etc)
 
lemonade said:
The brakes all work fine and I have good quality pads on, but the limitation is in the grip of the tyres, they just start skidding after a certain point. Maybe I need better tyres?
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Probably. I was running Vredestein Fortezza Senso Xtreme, however I do find them a bit slow and reckon my usual Conti GP4000 SII would do fine.

Surfer said:
cyclists and the white van should be done.

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Send your dashcam to mr plod. Cyclists are on the road so should be treated same as other road users (penalty points, fines, bans etc)
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As if the police will care about a non-event. They barely do anything in the case of actual collisions so good luck getting them to do something about 'cyclist on the wrong side of the road!!!'.
 
Plod won't turn up to anything these days unless someones dead, a twitter troll, or a BBC presenter.

They aren't going to bat an eyelid at some cyclist with a deathwish :P
 
Nasher said:
Plod won't turn up to anything these days unless someones dead, a twitter troll, or a BBC presenter.
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Yep... last Sunday we drove to Taunton and as we reached the outer suburban area of the town we came upon an accident. A biker had come off, or had been hit by another vehicle, he was surrounded by people looking after him, and there were other bystanders helping with traffic flow with one side of the road blocked by the casualty and his bike/other cars... We carried on into town, did our shopping and returned on the same road about 50 minutes later... there was now an ambulance at the scene, tending to the biker, but no police... so, members of the public were still having to deal with the none too easy job of traffic flow. They were doing a good job, but on a quietish Sunday afternoon, where the hell were the police?

The funny thing was, just two miles up the road we caught up with a cop car, driving like a typical Sunday driver... but heading in the opposite direction to the accident :confused:
 
I'm not surprised he's all over the shop. That's probably 14kg+ of jelly bike with under inflated tyres and standard pedals/shoes. He may even be about to keel over with the sheer weight of it :D
 
Drollic said:
I'm not surprised he's all over the shop. That's probably 14kg+ of jelly bike with under inflated tyres and standard pedals/shoes. He may even be about to keel over with the sheer weight of it :D
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Spot the cycling snob
 
Surfer said:
Cyclists are on the road so should be treated same as other road users (penalty points, fines, bans etc)
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Whilst I agree cyclists should abide by the law, there is a fundamental difference some car drivers are unable to grasp. Being able to drive a car is a privilege and not a right, which is why you are allowed to drive under licence and that privilege can be revoked. No such thing exists for cycling, obviously you can still fine them.
 
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Bear said:
Whilst I agree cyclists should abide by the law, there is a fundamental difference some car drivers are unable to grasp. Being able to drive a car is a privilege and not a right, which is why you are allowed to drive under licence and that privilege can be revoked. No such thing exists for cycling, obviously you can still fine them.
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Cyclists having access to public roads, paid for by car drivers, is an enormous privilege.

My problem lies with how cyclists treat pedestrians. In central London most car drivers are sensible and cautious when it comes to pedestrians. Cyclists show no regard whatsoever and seem to think they're the most important object in existence to get from A to B.

In the last month alone AND on one of those cycle super highways in London, a cyclist has crashed into me as I was crossing a road on a green man - with red lights indicated on the cycle lane and the main road. There seems to be such a high proportion who have no clue and no regard for other users of the road. Frankly if a cyclist runs a red light and gets mowed down because of it then they deserve what's coming.
 
Yea they jump the lights at pedestrian crossings all the time. If they come close push them away tbh, if they snake in to a railing or lamp post then to bad.
 
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Barks said:
Cyclists having access to public roads, paid for by car drivers, is an enormous privilege.

My problem lies with how cyclists treat pedestrians. In central London most car drivers are sensible and cautious when it comes to pedestrians. Cyclists show no regard whatsoever and seem to think they're the most important object in existence to get from A to B.

In the last month alone AND on one of those cycle super highways in London, a cyclist has crashed into me as I was crossing a road on a green man - with red lights indicated on the cycle lane and the main road. There seems to be such a high proportion who have no clue and no regard for other users of the road. Frankly if a cyclist runs a red light and gets mowed down because of it then they deserve what's coming.
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You do realise that public roads are paid for though general taxation and local roads are via council tax? Or are you one of those deluded morons that thinks you pay "road tax" which goes to the up keep of the roads?

I don't disagree with the premise of your post otherwise. If people do dangerous and selfish things and they get hurt or killed then it's their own stupid fault. The unfortunate thing is someone will have to live with that.
 
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