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Near Miss of the Day 39: Speeding motorbiker swerves towards cyclist on London Cycle Superhighway
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.
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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- stonojnr 7 hours 57 sec ago
it feels a conveniant donkey to put the tail on imo, and Im not saying some members didnt quit BC because of the Shell thing, but Im not entirely...
- espressodan 7 hours 37 min ago
I'm never convinced how helmets with built in cameras and lights can be acceptable safe. Sounds like a good way to get a camera embedded in your...
- Rendel Harris 7 hours 45 min ago
Did I mention that it costs £580?
- chrisonabike 7 hours 44 min ago
Yeah - and one of the passengers had the gall to say that the *driver* had taken a wrong turn!...
- chrisonabike 8 hours 1 min ago
Don't worry! They've got plenty of others they can use!...
- Rendel Harris 8 hours 18 min ago
Well what is that way? Are you suggesting that every bend on every descent can be barriered over a 180km mountain stage?
- slappop 12 hours 31 min ago
Hopefully it'll still be allowed for recreational use.
- Bungle_52 13 hours 22 min ago
Well Gloucestershire are getting better. I'm being told whether or not action is to be taken, but not what action, within a few days of each report...
- Surreyrider 15 hours 52 min ago
Churnalism nowadays - mostly clickbait stuff and regurgitation in the local rags/comics and beyond.
- DogOfOB 16 hours 4 min ago
I'm glad the barrier wasn't damaged. Whew, close one there! \s
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Many motorcyclists think they're entitled to use cycle lanes and ASLs- they don't think that 'big bicycle with internal combustion engine' is one of the things that infrastructure is supposed to protect "proper" bicycles *from*!
I think you should remove the term 'speeding'.
What they are doing is illegal regardless of their estimated speed - it stinks of the witnesses claiming Alliston was speeeding though...
I used to use that section pre superhighway when there was an unsegregated cycle lane - it was even worse then. Police would never do anything because their own bikes happily used it too.
Nuff said.
Motorbikes on cycle routes has been a long term problem, but this is stepping up to a new level. For many years the Motorcycle Action Group demanded access to cycle lanes and routes, but they seem to have dropped it.
Presumably there are some cctv cameras covering this route, and it would be possible to identify the motorbikes and their riders from the reg plates, but this would require reporting it to the police and for them to take action. The alternative is to ignore it and hope it goes away, but it is much more likely to get worse, when the perpetrators find that they can get away with it. Realistically it will probably take a serious incident for the police to do anything.
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