Got some helmet cam footage of YOUR commute?

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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    I wasn't saying it hadn't happened, I just didn't want to watch the whole 10 minute video for nothing! :lol:

    2:30, I can't see anything. 4:16, yep, he crosses the central line, but the van he's overtaking has got 4 feet of empty road to his left, and seems to move right as KB passes. The car coming the other way has got loads of room. At 4:14, when KB is just behind the van as the silver Audi comes past in the opposite direction, you could literally get a bus in the gap between the car and van.

    6:48....possibly a little naughty, if the traffic is over 10mph, but we don't know if it was.

    All in all, Kieran_Burns is a self righteous law breaking cyclist with a sense of entitlement and he deserves to be trolled/stalked! :lol::wink:
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/b ... ge-victims
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  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    edited February 2012
    Quite a fair article, that (though the Guardian Bike Blog is pretty good in general). I guess they've disabled comments after seeing the heights of intellectual discourse reached on YouTube... (Edit - They've got comments enabled now. Brave moderators!)

    Strikes me that if so many people experience road rage when cycling it's not a huge surprise that more people don't commute by bike which is a massive shame and a spectacular failure of road policing; there can't be many lawful activities that attract that much abuse. It's interesting that, according to the man from the Met, camera footage comes second to witness statements despite the somewhat patchy nature of human memory. Might have to get a rear-facing cam as well!
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,817
    nameinuse wrote:
    It's interesting that, according to the man from the Met, camera footage comes second to witness statements despite the somewhat patchy nature of human memory.
    I thought that odd. What happened to the camera never lies? I wonder if they are worried about selective editing.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    bails87 wrote:
    I wasn't saying it hadn't happened, I just didn't want to watch the whole 10 minute video for nothing! :lol:

    2:30, I can't see anything. 4:16, yep, he crosses the central line, but the van he's overtaking has got 4 feet of empty road to his left, and seems to move right as KB passes. The car coming the other way has got loads of room. At 4:14, when KB is just behind the van as the silver Audi comes past in the opposite direction, you could literally get a bus in the gap between the car and van.

    6:48....possibly a little naughty, if the traffic is over 10mph, but we don't know if it was.

    All in all, Kieran_Burns is a self righteous law breaking cyclist with a sense of entitlement and he deserves to be trolled/stalked! :lol::wink:

    Actually - you do: there's a speed sensor on the left :) it shows a single figure on the video as I go past
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    Kieran_Burns wrote:

    Actually - you do: there's a speed sensor on the left :) it shows a single figure on the video as I go past

    Ah, there we go then! :D
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    A stress fracture of the left hand crank at 10mph :(
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMGWN2IwBzk
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    redvee wrote:
    A stress fracture of the left hand crank at 10mph :(
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMGWN2IwBzk

    HOW rusty is that chain?????
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    I thought it was the flash on the chain but yes it is a lovely shade of rust colour :oops: Only a few links though. Guess I ought to stop riding through the fountains in Bristol

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDUBzGDPRk
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjlczlOqdxI
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  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    Dodgy junction and some dodgier driving. Really might have to find a route that doesn't take me down here, have had more trouble than anywhere else on my commute.

    http://youtu.be/kGOx-dRUDGU
  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    No one else posting vids? Had one of those days today, I think the bus company have a bounty out on me... I hope the next video I upload will be something rather more positive!

    http://youtu.be/qfMUwMp4Yy0
  • tigger123
    tigger123 Posts: 60
    You ever thought of taking up amateur dramatics there fella? Some seriously hammy, over acting. :roll:
  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    I'm afraid it's not acting, it's all natural...
  • generador
    generador Posts: 1
    You crashed i think? Its on vid??? Let's see it!!

    Ummm... you're ok right? i hope
  • Origamist
    Origamist Posts: 807
    Left hook (not me):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWXndP5zP58
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Origamist wrote:
    Left hook (not me):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWXndP5zP58

    Bad on the driver's part, driving off without exchanging details. Could be classed as hit n run with the right judge hopefully. She saw him approaching and still pulled out.
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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    It's one of those ones where because you know it ends in a collision you look out for, and spot, the danger.

    Would I have done the same as him? I don't know, hopefully I'd have spotted the inidcator and slowed down.

    Still, the driver shouldn't have pulled out in the first place, and certainly shouldn't have left the scene. Nice of her to admit she saw him and deliberately pulled out in front of him though.

    "Oi seen yow, un yow was nowhere near me"....which doesn't really explain how she hit him, if they were nowhere near each other!
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  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    Awful driving in that previous link, some people shouldn't be allowed driving licenses.

    Similarly, here's the youtube version of my rant from earlier - http://youtu.be/yvcnyHtoBmg - A fair number of incidents on my ride to work this morning.
  • tigger123
    tigger123 Posts: 60
    Blimey, more hammy over acting on your part there nameinuse. Complete over reaction on your part to all of those so called heinous crimes.
  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    tigger123 wrote:
    Blimey, more hammy over acting on your part there nameinuse. Complete over reaction on your part to all of those so called heinous crimes.
    Who called them heinous crimes?
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  • Origamist
    Origamist Posts: 807
    MF bike:

    http://youtu.be/hgCqz3l33kU
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    bails87 wrote:
    tigger123 wrote:
    Blimey, more hammy over acting on your part there nameinuse. Complete over reaction on your part to all of those so called heinous crimes.
    Who called them heinous crimes?


    tigger123 is a weird little stalker person - I would recommend treating him with the levity he deserves.
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  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    tigger123 is a weird little stalker person - I would recommend treating him with the levity he deserves.

    Aww, and there was me planning to recite Hamlet's first soliloquy the next time I got a close overtake... :)
  • king_jeffers
    king_jeffers Posts: 694
    Origamist wrote:
    MF bike:

    http://youtu.be/hgCqz3l33kU

    haha made my day :lol:
  • nameinuse
    nameinuse Posts: 71
    Just got home and had a chance to watch MF bike, that's brilliant!

    Had a few funny moments on my commute tonight, and I wanted to get some footage up showing the lighter side instead of dodgy driving...

    http://youtu.be/ZxcIiI87cOs
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    nameinuse wrote:
    Just got home and had a chance to watch MF bike, that's brilliant!

    Had a few funny moments on my commute tonight, and I wanted to get some footage up showing the lighter side instead of dodgy driving...

    http://youtu.be/ZxcIiI87cOs


    See! THAT'S why I got my camera! :D
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  • tigger123
    tigger123 Posts: 60
    You see Nameinuse? Even the pedestrians in your video know what a hammy actor you are. They are trying to get in on the act to show you up.
  • sturmey
    sturmey Posts: 964
    edited February 2013
    awaiting usual fatuous comments from our resident tool, Tigger123
  • tigger123
    tigger123 Posts: 60
    Apart from likening it to watching paint dry, what exactly was the problem with the two cars turning left? Both indicated and then turned left :| . That road needs resurfacing though. What does fatuous mean?
  • Dannyboy95
    Dannyboy95 Posts: 245
    Heres my first youtube vid follow the link plz. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7RQj4O ... Xi_Dwq0%3D
    cosna kick a bo agen a wo and ed it back till it bos-UP HANLEY ME DUCK

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