Snowdog, your arguments make no sense at all.
Cars hold motorcycles up but you don't see cars moving to the side of the road or slowing down to let them by.... In that video by your logic the car was also holding up the motorcycle, the cyclist was traveling with the traffic flow.
Only with congestion, which is why they are allowed here to pass jams between cars with a diff of 15 mph max...
It sounds like you are also suggesting it is unusual and should not be allowed that cyclists travel at fast speeds... flippin ek I do 21mph for 50 miles sometimes....
It is unusual, but not disallowed, I mean, luckily here we have the infrastructure for cyclists to travel like cyclists want in the UK, in the UK however, I am of the opinion there must first be enough cycle paths and cycle roads, before they act like they do... There are enough cyclists like in the VID here, but they are a minority, but they can do so fine because mostly ( say about 60-70% of the way) the cycle traffic here has their own cycle paths with no cars and they aren't annoying anyone, when they do share the road with cars, they do not act like they do in the vid of that guy, they behave like, erm, cyclists, not motorists.
Cycling in busy city's can often be quicker or less hassle than using public transport or cars.. No one is above anyone on the road, well, that is how it should be, but drivers think they own the road.
I understand that, but the drivers DO mainly own the road here, while cyclists own their own cycle paths, cyclists claiming the road as if they are drivers is a receipt for disaster imho... I don't know but from that vid, if cyclists would be here remotely like that, it'd be chaos like over there in the UK, they behave and see themselves differently, as ''cyclists'' not ''motorists''. There's a whole different attitude when cycling. Motorists are seen differently as kind of ''faster traffic''. While not necessarily true here ( since cyclists have their own tunnels, overpasses, etc) they simply do not claim as much when they're sharing the road with cars or other motorists.
ALL the arguments to do with cyclists are all from the fact that a driver may loose 10-20 seconds probably not even that and it's stupid. And as for drivers trying to overtake cyclists traveling with the traffic flow, that is basically like a bullying tactic.
I guess it's more a fault of the infrastructure, but partly, I think the attitude of cyclists in the UK is VERY wrong, I am a professional driver for work, but I can't remember any situation where I'd get as annoyed by a cyclist like in that vid. I'm used to them either letting me past or being on their own roads so to speak... The only issue with cyclists here I really have is kids going to school ignoring many traffic laws, adult cyclists usually are very polite and they're actually surprised if I wait for them and wave to me ''thank you'' if I brake for them, yes there are situations here where the cyclist has the right of way, mostly though, drivers have the right of way and often let cyclists pass if they're not in a hurry or are being polite.
I'm not used to cyclists traveling with traffic, they're slower 99% of the time...
I understand the mentality is not even comparable between motorists and cyclists in the UK, but how cyclists and motorists are acting over there is wrong, they're not trying to make life easier for each other, they're fighting over the sparse space instead...
I see every cyclist as a car less on the road, which I like, more cyclists simply means better roads for me as a car driver. These days I just cycle when it's really nice weather and when I'm drunk, other wise, moped>pushbike and car>*... Before 18, I always used to cycle everywhere for years, school, work, drinking ( from 16 here remember, all 16-18 year olds always cycle when they go out), always cycle...
But the cyclist is a bit of a **** no helmet, wrong way down a street.
