Numpties..one lucky and one not so lucky!

city_boy

A cyclist and a black cab driver jump a red light.
Which one smacks into the side of a bus and makes the headlines and which one goes un-noticed?

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/cyclist-red-light-bus-crash-9318981

pinno

If you have one of the listed media you could add a comment as such.

chris_bass

Regardless of the red light, how did he not stop in time? He could see the bus for ages, it wasn't going fast and he hits it about half way down.

pinno

Chris Bass wrote:

Regardless of the red light, how did he not stop in time? He could see the bus for ages, it wasn't going fast and he hits it about half way down.

Maybe he was aiming at it. Bike 1 - Bus 1

city_boy

pinarello001 wrote:

Chris Bass wrote:

Regardless of the red light, how did he not stop in time? He could see the bus for ages, it wasn't going fast and he hits it about half way down.

Maybe he was aiming at it. Bike 1 - Bus 1

Maybe a suicide attempt by Manc33...????

pinno

City Boy wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

Chris Bass wrote:

Regardless of the red light, how did he not stop in time? He could see the bus for ages, it wasn't going fast and he hits it about half way down.

Maybe he was aiming at it. Bike 1 - Bus 1

Maybe a suicide attempt by Manc33...????

Maybe he thought that buses were the root of all evil.

RideOnTime

brake cable snaps...

pinno

RideOnTime wrote:

brake cable snaps...

It looked like a fixie although it did also look like he was freewheeling. If you look at the first few seconds, there's no sign of any brake levers though.

RideOnTime

It is compulsive viewing...
He seems just destined to wallop the bus like he intended to whatever...
may be he's a crash test dummy.

chris_bass

He's almost lucky he hits the side of the bus, if he doesn't he'd be hit by a car very shortly after.

I blame strava!

Origami02

Chris Bass wrote:

I blame strava!

Joking aside, that's actually a very possible cause. It seems to turn some very unlikely looking heroes, into Raging Bull on a bike... :shock:

MountainMonster

Typical great reporting.

What an idiot though.

veronese68

RideOnTime wrote:

brake cable snaps...

Just read these quotes from the bus driver and cyclist n Road CC:

“I was the driver of the bus and just to let everyone know I parked just round the corner and ran back.

“The cyclist was very lucky and only suffered a cut to one of his knuckles. Also in the cyclist’s defence his brake cable snapped and he couldn’t stop.”

He added: “Scariest thing that ever happened to me.”

In a comment to the YouTube video of the incident, which took place at the junction of Portland Street and Oxford Street, the cyclist said: “It was me. Thought I’d just get the lights, hence the speed.

“Realised it wasn’t happening, squeezed the front brake. Cable snapped. Not enough time to lose speed on back wheel in the wet. Not fun.”

He went on: “It’s a fixed back wheel, front brake for urgent braking, pushing back on the pedals gives you controlled but sadly slower braking with the back wheel, so what you see is me pushing back as hard as I can but it’s a crap bit of road surface and it was wet.”

pinno

Thanks for that V68. I copy pasted it from Road CC and put it into the you tube comments to shut all the 'all cyclists are tw@ts' brigade up.

Anonymous

pinarello001 wrote:

'all cyclists are tw@ts'

Anyone reading BR would definitely think this, anyway

veronese68

coriordan wrote:

pinarello001 wrote:

'all cyclists are tw@ts'

Anyone reading BR would definitely think this, anyway

May he who is without tw@ttishness cast the first stone. Or I think it went something like that.

pinno

A tw@t in the hand is worth two in the bush?... No hang on... er...

Anonymous