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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I know this is a Motorbike vid, but I think the same applies to a lot of regular Cyclists in general. They pull some stupid stunts and then want to blame a Motorist for their irresponsibility when they get hurt.
There was a slot about it on the Jeremy Vine show yesterday. I'm not a fan of his but sometimes I just like to have my blood pressure go through the roof.
Lib Dems want the Motorist to be automatically assumed guilty in a collision with a cyclist.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037pr4m
He does explain what happened on the comments to the video, which puts a slightly different perspective on it.
I've only watched it w/out sound, so don't know whether the explanation is consistent with the video or not ... but he's maybe a little unobservant rather than a complete numpty with a deathwish.
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What a total bell-end.
Mind you, there's any number of chav boy-racers in hatchbacks with what sounds like broken exhausts that perform like idiots around the towns. The roadside floral tributes tell the story around here.
Filtering through traffic is fine and to be encouraged.
Being an idiot like that - well...I'm glad he wasn't hurt - but FFS I hope he has learnt from it.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
You should try the bit from Huntingdon to Cambridge......I once saw a biker literally wheelie between 2 lines of stopped cars.........Sadly there wasn't a Police car around.......Mind that could be said of a lot of car drivers.....
And the motorists being blamed for collisions with cyclists? Fuck me no......Even Julian Huppert (Cambridge MP) has said he wants this........Anyone who's driven/walked/cycled through Cambridge knows how blind/dumb/plain dangerous to themselves some cyclists can be......Not looking at junctions, going through red lights, racing traffic, cycling well wide of cycle lanes......I even had one idiot not stop at a T-junction, from a side road onto a main road (I was on the main road), turned right (so went across both lanes of traffic) didn't stop, or even slow down to check for traffic.......
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
@Drew_fx, I've worked around, and with lorries for a long time, there's not a great deal of space between them, you could walk between them fair enough, but you'd struggle to cycle between them without a good chance of catching one or the other.
It looks to me exactly like he was going too fast, and riding dangerously to me, and I'm not a biker.
He's trying (to my eye) to fit through a gap, which is barely wide enough for him, too fast.
You're right on the numptiness bit though :-)
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
"I know this is a Motorbike vid, but I think the same applies to a lot of regular Cyclists in general. They pull some stupid stunts and then want to blame a Motorist for their irresponsibility when they get hurt.
Lib Dems want the Motorist to be automatically assumed guilty in a collision with a cyclist."
Context please. We're not talking criminal liability here.
http://www.bikeradar.com/commuting/news/article/motorists-should-have-presumed-liability-in-cycling-accidents-say-lib-dems-38096/
I heartily agree that there are plenty of fuckwit cyclists. As someone who pulls in 200 miles a week usually on the bike, I swear far more at cyclists than drivers. However, in the case of cyclists causing accidents, you don't see drivers being crippled or mashed. Drivers who cause accidents on the other hand do get away with it a great deal. Those bad drivers and those red light jumping cyclists both need pulling up on their behaviour.