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Bloody cyclists on the pavement (not)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TxH0IEr6Y
I've seen some mad things in my time on the road, but I don't think I've ever been overtaken in this manner. Perhaps we can raise this video's profile and get the police interested?
Just for the record, I completely support the velo user's road position and right to be there. I don't think he's done anything wrong, not even slightly.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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Of course not! I will be chasing up after Christmas, no point in doing so now as they will just point to "hopefully" and "in December".
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I don't understand why it has to be sent to the police - if they saw someone burgling your house would they wait for you to report it to take action?
Clearly a nutter who should be detained at her majesty's pleasure
Ah, but I will never suffer fools gladly...
More importantly it is nice to see some one still driving a Sinclair C5, and saving on battery life too.
The comments on the youtube site are even more astonishing than the pass itself.
I think it's what they're calling Populism.
Its certainly an "ism" of some sort...
A similar thing happened to me a couple of weeks back. Traveling along a quite single track lane of the sort where the only traffic you’ll normally meet is families with children & dogs all over the road, tractors, or kids being led on donkeys.
The wind was blowing an unremitting hoolie from straight ahead and coming towards the top of a slight rise I check behind (all clear), slow to about 10mph for a bit of a respite, look behind again (all clear) move to the middle of the road to avoid a pile of horse shit, blowing a bijou snot rocket as I do so – and: FuckKK Me!!! I’m dead & it hasn’t registered yet
– Some twunt in a 4X4 pick up (of the type that has blacked out windows) as passed me with millimetres to spare at 30-40 mph, half on the road and half off it.
His speed can’t just have been part of my shocked imaginings as he could only have taken a couple of seconds (at most) to cover the distance I’d just checked back over
Looking behind ‘down’ the straight bit of road from here:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.075371,-0.0900763,3a,75y,173.89h,87.7t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4hXLZreCApxRnbUmO6IpTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Just - Why????
Some juicy comments on YouTube
By 'juicy' you mean Daily Mail.
Makes the dm look like a nunnery newsletter.
What. The.
Was not expecting that at all.
Got the plate nice and clear, easy one for the police, not that they'll bother.
"The other vehicle only had two wheels on the highway and was therefore classed as a bike and no action will be taken" - the police.
But they posted it on youtube so it ceases to be a crime.
And we didn't see two minutes before the incident so maybe there was provication.
Prat
What is it about this site that some posters have to take everything literally.
Every syllable of my comments on this story have dripped with sarcasm.
I will refuse to use emoticons, will never use textspeak and will endeavor not to swear. These are the rules I had set myself when I decided to start commenting on this site. I had hoped not to enter into any arguements with anyone, not even with Applecart, but your refusal to even consider to read my comment in the style in which it was intended has forced me into replying.
My post was was an attempt at satire, and a comment on some police forces' rules on accepting video evidence.
I would love to be able to cite the bit about not going any further if a video was posted on social media, might have been on here, but it could have been on Bez's excellent Beyond the curb, or the equally good As easy as riding a bike. Some forces have made this declaration, it shouldn't change the way evidence is used, unless there is serious injury involved I cannot see any of these cases going in front of a Jury.
The two minute thing came from http://road.cc/content/news/212515-metropolitan-police-beta-testing-vide... I don't know why there is the two minute rule, there can be no justification for this sort of awful driving, but the thread came to the conclusion about provication.
I apologise for my comment going that far over your head, but with your comment on Tour de Celeb "I'd like to bust all over Amy Williams's face" I had always considered you quite low brow.
Until there is a sarcasm font you will either have to use emoticons to convey this or suffer people misinterpreting what you say.
really? you don't say!
Fortunately nobody ever misses sarcasm in comments on this site.
I did a spell as a lollipop man when I retired.
One of the most alarming incidents was when I had the traffic halted and a car drove along the pavement to get past, scattering children and their parents as it went.
I got witness statements from parents and reported the incident to the police. No action was taken.
I resigned shortly afterwards.
Yes, but the driver didn't cross the white line so it must be alright.
I hope this was sent in to the police, on the pavement round a blind bend also endangers pedestrians.
I'm surprised anyone thought of this!
Unbelievably dangerous! :-o
Not that it makes any difference at all, but I wonder out of curiosity how the velomobile's speed compared to the 10mph referenced in highway code rule 129?