Got some helmet cam footage of YOUR commute?
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mapryan wrote:Actually, I'm curious about this. Does anyone know what could happen to you if you get pulled over for doing this? Is it the same as doing it in a car? Do you get points on your driving license or something?
Cheers
You get fined on the spot. No driving license points as not all of us have one of those!0 -
A near left hook by a BMW and an old codger who didn't look before stepping out... It couldn't happen, could it? Well it did, in this morning's episode of the commuting zone.
Let's watch, shall we...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7smDLZDlEAQ
Really thought I was going to hit the old bloke, properly tensed all my muscles and everything. Wide angle lenses are great but in this instance it doesn't show how close we were.0 -
Jamey wrote:A near left hook by a BMW and an old codger who didn't look before stepping out... It couldn't happen, could it? Well it did, in this morning's episode of the commuting zone.
Let's watch, shall we...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7smDLZDlEAQ
Really thought I was going to hit the old bloke, properly tensed all my muscles and everything. Wide angle lenses are great but in this instance it doesn't show how close we were.
In the onewith the car, knowing there's a junction coming up I'd move over behind it ready to go round the outside ( checking its safe of course ).0 -
Not sure I'm following... That sounds like what I did, doesn't it?0
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Sort of yeah but as the car slows you're still heading towards the left side of it. I'd move way earlier and further out.
As soon as he is past I'd be out somewhere near the central line. If he slows to turn you nip round the outside. If he carries straight on you tuck back in to the left.0 -
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I am definitely in the minority now on my daily commute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJfc6ACdPk0 -
mapryan wrote:I am definitely in the minority now on my daily commute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJfc6ACdPk
Thats just shocking.Novice runner & novice cyclist
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Orbea (Enol I think)0 -
On a simiar theme to mapryan's. A middle aged wobbler on a powder blue clunker. Judging by appearance and destination I'm willing to bet on middle management at a large govt owned bank at Aldgate.
I've got £10 for anyone who can tell me I'm wrong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk_qNKYAIaQ0 -
Lancslad wrote:mapryan wrote:I am definitely in the minority now on my daily commute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJfc6ACdPk
Thats just shocking.
Very shocking. And how ironic that the ASL was empty, and vehicles had stopped, dutifyly, behind it.0 -
I've just had my first stupid, anti-cycling YouTube comment on the video I posted yesterday. Surprised it's taken this long.
Comment is the one from lilu06, in case anyone can't spot it among the other banter
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Another reason not to take the bus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOk7r8TOjw0 -
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Craggers wrote:
It's a good job I have eyes and brakes, because this guy seems not to
To be fair to him though, he IS driving a bright yellow saab with the top down and his bald patch showing. He was probably in a rush to get to the paper bag shop to hide his shame.0 -
Cat With No Tail wrote:Craggers wrote:
It's a good job I have eyes and brakes, because this guy seems not to
To be fair to him though, he IS driving a bright yellow saab with the top down and his bald patch showing. He was probably in a rush to get to the paper bag shop to hide his shame.
Perhaps the bald spot is because he can't take is hand away from his head while driving. Rubbed a hole in his hair perhaps?0 -
To be fair to him though, he IS driving a bright yellow saab with the top down and his bald patch showing. He was probably in a rush to get to the paper bag shop to hide his shame.
I was desperately trying to keep up to have a 'word' at the next lights...didn't manage it though. No idea what I would have said "nice....err....hairdressers car..... umm...baldy!"
I like your chocolate orange 456...considering building one up myself...how's that frame working for you???0 -
Craggers wrote:To be fair to him though, he IS driving a bright yellow saab with the top down and his bald patch showing. He was probably in a rush to get to the paper bag shop to hide his shame.
I was desperately trying to keep up to have a 'word' at the next lights...didn't manage it though. No idea what I would have said "nice....err....hairdressers car..... umm...baldy!"
I like your chocolate orange 456...considering building one up myself...how's that frame working for you???
Tempting as it is to take the p1ss it's always better to be polite. That should throw him off gaurd since he's probably expected to be confronted by an angry red-faced 'lycra-lout'. Probably something like 'Hi. Please pay attention to the road. If you search for your registration on vimeo* later you'll see why I'm upset.' You could also throw in a threat to report him to police if he doesn't start driving with both hands on the steering wheel.
* granted he may not know what vimeo is. youtube would strike a better chord
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mapryan wrote:I am definitely in the minority now on my daily commute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJfc6ACdPk
And is it any wonder that Motor Vehicle drivers don't like cyclists, when we make it easy for them to critiicise us for riding dangerously and proclaiming its never there fault. A generalism I know, but we don't make it easy for our selves do we.
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Kurako wrote:Craggers wrote:To be fair to him though, he IS driving a bright yellow saab with the top down and his bald patch showing. He was probably in a rush to get to the paper bag shop to hide his shame.
I was desperately trying to keep up to have a 'word' at the next lights...didn't manage it though. No idea what I would have said "nice....err....hairdressers car..... umm...baldy!"
I like your chocolate orange 456...considering building one up myself...how's that frame working for you???
Tempting as it is to take the p1ss it's always better to be polite. That should throw him off gaurd since he's probably expected to be confronted by an angry red-faced 'lycra-lout'. Probably something like 'Hi. Please pay attention to the road. If you search for your registration on vimeo* later you'll see why I'm upset.' You could also throw in a threat to report him to police if he doesn't start driving with both hands on the steering wheel.
* granted he may not know what vimeo is. youtube would strike a better chord
Or just D-lock the cnut!
Craggers Cheers The frame is great for what I use it for. Outstanding value too. Although it has to be said, the paint quality can be very hit and miss.
I'll be upgrading mine later in the year to either the carbon or Ti frame. I want a go on one of the carbon frames before I make my mind up though.0 -
MadammeMarie wrote:Lancslad wrote:mapryan wrote:I am definitely in the minority now on my daily commute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgJfc6ACdPk
Thats just shocking.
Very shocking. And how ironic that the ASL was empty, and vehicles had stopped, dutifyly, behind it.
It does seem that (at least in some places) the proportion of cyclists who jump red lights has reached a sort of 'critical mass', where there are just so many people RLJing that more cyclists begin to perceive it as acceptable because it is 'the done thing'. So then even more people start doing it, and therefore it becomes perceived as more acceptable still, and so on. Give the epidemic a few more years and we'll probably all be doing it... :evil:0 -
I've often thought about assuming an 'Angel of the North' position when sat at a red light and seeing what happens :PI've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0
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I really hate it when peds do this, the first guy in particular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVLBbLF-Q24
Is it dangerous? Probably not, but I hate it when people are that close to me when I'm cycling along.0 -
mapryan wrote:I really hate it when peds do this, the first guy in particular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVLBbLF-Q24
Is it dangerous? Probably not, but I hate it when people are that close to me when I'm cycling along.
Its the chicken game. They know you're not supposed to hit them and they like to see how close they can get to your handlars. I tend to stare at them and say 'Don't f*cking move'. I have a potty mouth though 0 -
redvee wrote:I've often thought about assuming an 'Angel of the North' position when sat at a red light and seeing what happens :P 0
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Todays excitement....rudely squeezed by a bus trying to beat me to a red light, and an old guy RLJing but having the courtesy to dismount before filtering!
http://vimeo.com/11243061
Whats the best way to repert sh1te driving by a bus driver???0 -
Holy Fcuk! That bus was shocking!
I'd imagine you can find an email address for the bus company off their website.0 -
Craggers wrote:Todays excitement....rudely squeezed by a bus trying to beat me to a red light, and an old guy RLJing but having the courtesy to dismount before filtering!
http://vimeo.com/11243061
Whats the best way to repert sh1te driving by a bus driver???
You should take up the whole bus lane to prevent stuff like this from happening. Not saying it won't happen but at least you have a better escape area of you do.0 -
Over-the-bonnet moment for me this morning.
No editing software on the work laptop, so you'll have to forward to about 3min 45 and watch from there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EocfuZML-YQ
Car pulls out of side street without doing proper checks, sees me at last minute, tries to bang it in reverse, misses, road is wet so despite my big brakes, I slide into the side of him, over the bars onto the bonnet, then proceed to smash his windscreen with my fist in a temper.
After that, for some reason I come over all polite and British, asking if HE is ok and so on. :?
To be fair to him, he was massively apologetic (and quite rightly so). There was no damage to me or the bike (thank god I chose to take the big steel 456 this moring) and I had just bashed his windscreen in. He honestly did look like he was about to faint.
Many thanks to the peds who rushed over to make sure I was ok, and to the lady from the ironing shop over the road for offering me a cuppa.
This is the 3rd time someone has pulled out of this road on me in the last 3 months, it's getting beyond a joke now.0 -
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Glad you and the bike are ok though 8)0 -
