Cyclists apopletic about law being applied to them
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is that even physically possible unless your on a bmx? did he have mudguards? I can't be bothered to try and notice but I'm guessing yes if he was commuting and didn't want a dirty wet horizontal line on his back
probably lose 0 speed turning as well since so less of the bike is actually touching the surface of the road and there's so less rolling resistance.
your trying to imply car physics to a bike?
An early 'mountain' bike. Halford's £100 special
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What I dony get is that unless you have serious tunnel vision (which maybe an issue with some road users), how did he not see the coach coming out? I agree with the situational posts at junctions. I live near Hull and I'm going to go out on a limb and say the amount of cyclists in the road is miles lower than London (even as a percentage of total road users), so I do see the odd car jump kights, but I'd say I only see maybe 3 or 4 cyclists on my commute (just cycling, not running red lights), and even then on fair weather cyclists, so I'm always going to see more car users doing it, even though that's probably only 1% of users I see. I do notice the further dough I've driven the lower driving standards get, seems to be past Derby it starts getting bad. We did used to have a die hard cyclist at our work and he was dangerous. He would weave through traffic that was at a dual carriage way (Humber Bridge roundabout if anyone knows it), and he would cut infront of people turning left as he wanted to go straight on which is incredibly stupid imo.
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Except I find it’s the vocal minority of poor cyclists that tend to sway the policies.. hence rules that just appear to make things worse and don’t remotely address the real issues.You could summarise this as there are good/bad cyclists/drivers. Yes it was equally unnecessary to quote your entire post to say that.
Or just put his foot down/hopped off...
It's a lame excuse, he was clearly going to fast and wasn't paying attention.
Anyway, another good one
I love how just no one gives a ****.
No one deserves to get hit, but wow, that’s a great example of the type of poor cyclist I see far too much of.. he’ll also be one vocally campaigning for more rule changes that legitimise his idiocy.
I think he had only one brake and was riding a fixie.
This one triggers a giddy sensation!Or just put his foot down/hopped off...
It's a lame excuse, he was clearly going to fast and wasn't paying attention.
Anyway, another good one
I love how just no one gives a ****.
Yeah that looks like it, which is even worse, illegal from the start, bad maintenance and no idea how to stop using the pedals.
Looking at the vid, he probably wasn't expecting a long coach turning right. If it had been a smaller vehicle he would have gone right behind it, but it was too late when he realised it was long and turning.
Meanwhile, over in Motors, a car driver thinks the law, with a much more serious offence, doesn't apply to them. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/anyone-know-any-decent-motoring-lawyers.18947851/
And this is quite a ironic thread by them just a few months earlier. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/rant-london-driving-cyclists.18943243/
And this is quite a ironic thread by them just a few months earlier. https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/rant-london-driving-cyclists.18943243/
Whilst in this thread, Trifid attempts the old 'whataboutery' routine.
Obviously your reading comprehension isn't very good as nowhere has the OP said his behaviour was acceptable.
The roll eyes smilie isn't big enough for you sir.
now that would have been epic!
These are not words of someone I want to be sharing the road with. There isn't even any remorse here.
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Or just put his foot down/hopped off...
It's a lame excuse, he was clearly going to fast and wasn't paying attention.
Anyway, another good one
I love how just no one gives a ****.
See a bar end mirror would have saved him
1) nearly getting hit by a car he didn't check for
2)stopped him crashing his bike because he can't do a shoulder check without crashing.
Technically not flipping off the driver to show off on his helmet cam would have saved him.
Also, why is the car horning? The cammer started his overtake just before the island but the car only starts horning after the island. So there isn't room for the car to pass when the biker starts pulling out and the road has narrowed after the island so the car driver should have swung out wide regardless. Did the driver not notice this guy going for an overtake.
The cammer is a dumbass and the driver sucks at forward planning.
Flipping somone off, shoulder check. Potato potato
Yeah you really have to assume everyone is either an idiot or malicious when on the roads and not in a car
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Or just put his foot down/hopped off...
It's a lame excuse, he was clearly going to fast and wasn't paying attention.
Anyway, another good one
I love how just no one gives a ****.
Plenty of drop kerbs and not a pedestrian in sight. Call me a dick, but I'd have simply gone on the pavement for 10s to overtake that other cyclist.
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I'm out, I just can't etc.
This one (London again) from a few years back is pretty funny
While I certainly wouldn’t want that prat of a cyclist to have been hurt or worse, maybe that incident or the video of it might make him or other dumb cyclists think twice about running red lights.
I won’t hold my breath though.
This one (London again) from a few years back is pretty funny
Are you 100% sure that's London?
Because from my eyes that looks suspiciously like Oxford Road in Manchester.
Just where do you get your information from? Because it would seem like 97.95% is bull****.
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Probably because it is doing the rounds on social media as being of London and most people wouldn't even bother to question it unless they were familiar with one or the other or both. The only thing which clued me in really was the wrong kind of bus for London.