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Near Miss of the Day 39: Speeding motorbiker swerves towards cyclist on London Cycle Superhighway

Our regular feature highlighting close passes caught on camera from around the country – today it’s the City of London
by Simon_MacMichael
Wed, Oct 11, 2017 11:40
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With their physical protection from motor traffic, London's latest generation of Cycle Superhighways are transforming cycling in the capital, but even somewhere you might assume would be safe can be the scene of a scary encounter with motor traffic.

YouTube user Ethno Cyclist uploaded this video yesterday taken on Upper Thames Street in the City of London as he rode along Cycle Superhighway 3.

The footage shows two motorcyclists speeding towards him, and according to witnesses they were being ridden at a speed of around 50 miles an hour.

The cyclist added that although it's not entirely apparent from the video, the rider of the second motorbike then swerved at him at speed.

Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.

If you’ve caught on camera a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with another road user that you’d like to share with the wider cycling community please send it to us at info [at] road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.

If the video is on YouTube, please send us a link, if not we can add any footage you supply to our YouTube channel as an unlisted video (so it won't show up on searches).

Please also let us know whether you contacted the police and if so what their reaction was, as well as the reaction of the vehicle operator if it was a bus, lorry or van with company markings etc.

Near Miss of the Day
Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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don simon fbpe replied to lostshrimp | 6 years ago
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lostshrimp wrote:

don simon wrote:

lostshrimp wrote:

As someone who uses that CSH every day thing that's really start to wind me up is the number of un-restircted e-bikes. Yesterday I counted 5 including one which wasn't far of a track derney with the rider wearing a full helmet. Doing 19ish MPH (270ish watts) on a road bike they were still comfortably droping me whilst only lightly spinning 

Blimey! 19mph (that's over 30km/h for the cyclists), eh? On a road bike....

What can I say? I'm, unusually, lost for words.

 

 

The point being I was doing a realtivly average speed  due to the number of much slower moving bikes  but much more than the 15.5mph / 250watt limit set on e-bikes and was being comfortably dropped by un-limited e-bikes. 

The point being whether you would comment at another cyclist passing at over 30km/h. I'd be a little hacked if someone passes without a little shout, but it seldom happens though.

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FluffyKittenofT... replied to don simon fbpe | 6 years ago
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don simon wrote:

lostshrimp wrote:

don simon wrote:

lostshrimp wrote:

As someone who uses that CSH every day thing that's really start to wind me up is the number of un-restircted e-bikes. Yesterday I counted 5 including one which wasn't far of a track derney with the rider wearing a full helmet. Doing 19ish MPH (270ish watts) on a road bike they were still comfortably droping me whilst only lightly spinning 

Blimey! 19mph (that's over 30km/h for the cyclists), eh? On a road bike....

What can I say? I'm, unusually, lost for words.

 

 

The point being I was doing a realtivly average speed  due to the number of much slower moving bikes  but much more than the 15.5mph / 250watt limit set on e-bikes and was being comfortably dropped by un-limited e-bikes. 

The point being whether you would comment at another cyclist passing at over 30km/h. I'd be a little hacked if someone passes without a little shout, but it seldom happens though.

I thought the point they were making was if the e-bicyclist could pass them at that speed ('while only lightly spinning'), then said e-bike must be putting out illegal amounts of power? If it were another cyclist it wouldn't imply a law being broken.

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kraut replied to Maverick34 | 6 years ago
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Maverick34 wrote:

What about a daily mug shots of RLJ'ers

I could happily provide dozens a day. Most of them would be in motor vehicles, though

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Goldfever4 replied to don simon fbpe | 6 years ago
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don simon wrote:

lostshrimp wrote:

don simon wrote:

lostshrimp wrote:

As someone who uses that CSH every day thing that's really start to wind me up is the number of un-restircted e-bikes. Yesterday I counted 5 including one which wasn't far of a track derney with the rider wearing a full helmet. Doing 19ish MPH (270ish watts) on a road bike they were still comfortably droping me whilst only lightly spinning 

Blimey! 19mph (that's over 30km/h for the cyclists), eh? On a road bike....

What can I say? I'm, unusually, lost for words.

 

 

The point being I was doing a realtivly average speed  due to the number of much slower moving bikes  but much more than the 15.5mph / 250watt limit set on e-bikes and was being comfortably dropped by un-limited e-bikes. 

The point being whether you would comment at another cyclist passing at over 30km/h. I'd be a little hacked if someone passes without a little shout, but it seldom happens though.

Not sure that was the point but wdik

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