Helmet camera sparks death threats in Scotland

cee

DavidTQ wrote:

I have actually posted a few good example videos on you tube since I got my helmet cam, although bad driving ones do make far more interesting videos.

I have seen some of your videos David...Yes indeed you have, but I just think your attitude seems so much different than magnatom's

overmars

Good for Magnatom! 8)

(apart from the death threats of course!)

saveswalking

alfablue wrote:

saveswalking wrote:

alfablue wrote:

Kafka\'s Doll wrote:

On RLJing and how it affects motorists' view of cyclists in general, I completely disagree with most posters. Motorists don't like cyclists because they see them as smug, holier-than-thou and superior. It's the damned piety about being better road users that winds them up the most, in my opinion. And this piety is at its apex when it comes to attitudes to RLJing. In most cases it's just not that big a deal, but this forum has even equated it with drunk driving.

It's this sense of self-righteousness that is the biggest cause of cyclist-motorist conflict.

You only had to view a BBC documentary back in January regarding London's roads to hear many many motorists citing RLJ'ing as the first and often only grievance they had with cyclists - it is not imaginary.

No its not imaginary - its a lazy kneejerk response ('informed' by a media looking for a social conflict) to attempt to express their frustration and envy . Those motorists that 'hate' cyclists have no rational reason to do so and so pick up on the easiest visual examples of 'bad' cycling e.g. RLJ and :roll: pavement cycling. Its a red herring/smokescreen that appears to be setting the agenda and dictating the behavior of cyclists.

sw

Listen, I am not defending the thinking of those "hate" motorists (or indeed those that merely dislike cyclists), their reactions are obviously over the top especially when compared to their own transgressions, nevertheless we have to accept that as cyclists we are subject to such harsh and sometimes ill-informed judgement, and we pay the consequences - no amount of rationalisation about their frustration and envy will change that. Also, I do not subscribe to the "its the media" theory, either.

No I dont subscribe to the "its the media" theory, either - what I meant by that comment was that people are (in the absense of a better understanding) influenced by and their prejudices reinforced by the lazy sensationalist media looking for a 'story'.

sw

a bit of light lunchtime reading then for me 8) - thanks Mikey

gtvlusso

Lets all just film each other.......all the time, everywhere. Trucks, Buses, cars, Motorbikes, Vans, Bicycles, kids on bicycles, pedestrians.

Then lets put it on Youtube comment on each other and blame each other for every tiny little error or inconsideration - with no experience of driving a big truck or a bus or little experience in a car or a motorbike....blah blah blah

Lets face it - it's stupid; as everyone will have a different opinion and critique on things they have never done and situations they have never been in and it just breeds animosity and divides us from other road users - working together with all road users rather than creating a cyclist faction will help us more, saying thanks when people make space or slow down to let you turn right etc etc - after all we are not perfect by any standards and filming and commenting on other road users just makes us out to be tw@ts who hate everyone and wind them up by filming them and then criticising their skill as a bus driver, truck driver or whatever!

Deal with it and move on.

BentMikey

That's your opinion, and it would seem that most people don't subscribe to that viewpoint.