road.cc live blog: Team Sky’s Christmas video, London’s ex-cycling commissioner rips into Sadiq + more

@sigirides as long as you dive for the kerb to demonstrate you were inconvenienced.

@sigirides based on my sadly all too large experience, there are many fine officers within West Yorkshire Police. And many who don't fit into that category, particularly as it pertains to cyclists' issues. The key issue is that the prejudiced, incompetent ones dominate, and are not corrected, constrained or checked in any way, so that cyclists cannot expect anything close to a fair and consistent treatment by WYP. As such, they are institutionally anti-cyclist.

so Shimano still avoiding leading the market, but rather coming up safely behind with a safe product. All good but hardly cutting edge, weights a bit high, width a bit narrow, cost a bit high...which is fine for their market I suppose, but they are being overtaken by others

This is a really important precedent, because it confirms that an oncoming car in their own lane CAN be charged with a close pass, even if the cyclist and the car remain in their own lanes. A cyclist riding in primary position could probably rack up dozens, if not hundreds, of prosecutions in an hour or two of cycling. Or, West Yorkshire Police are full of shit.

"In a statement provided to road.cc, West Yorkshire Police also said it was “not appropriate” to release footage of the earlier close pass, the spokesperson stating that it would be “unfair” to the driver and not “strictly relevant” to the offence posted online." It may not be "strictly relevant" to the offence posted online. But the pertinent question is why they chose to post the cycling offence online, but not the motoring offence. That's "unfair". If they sincerely meant the message posted alongside the cycling clip ("It is important that all road users are aware of The Highway Code, are considerate to other road users and understand their responsibility for the safety of others"), then they should have posted both offences. To post only one looks very much like seeking to dissuade cyclists from making reports.

Um, which is it then?

So it's appropriate to cite the offence for which the cyclist submitted the video as a comparative that "proves" the cyclist's offence was far worse, but now it's not only not appropriate to show the video but it's not actually relevant to the cyclist's offence either? Right. Shouldn't you make a beeping noise when you back up like that, chaps? Does the cyclist still have the original footage? Nothing to prevent them releasing it so we can see the validity or otherwise of the police claims.

@quiff Yes - that's the bit I was referring to.

Right then.... It's not appropriate? Why not? Is it because it shows that in fact the close pass received by the cyclist was not, in fact, significantly more than the distances shown in this (admittedly rather stupid) example of bad cycling? Are they covering their backsides after another blatant lie? Is this the same force that didn't prosecute a close pass on me because I wasn't in the dead center of a cycle lane, but slightly to one side to avoid a drain grate, and therefore I was "inconsiderate" in my cycling? Or who tried to prosecute me for swearing in distress when a driver deliberately tried to ram me off the road, whilst filming me? Or who actually wrote in a witness statement that I swear in the majority of the videos that I submit (a blatant lie which they know is false, but don't care. Shame I couldn't get that tested in court). Is this the police force who have a written policy - and I kid you not - of dismissing OUT OF HAND any complaints about how they handle submissions from cyclists who have previously complained to them. Is this the same force that can't see anything wrong with a close pass UNDERTAKE at speed, and refused to prosecute this incident; https://vimeo.com/1079291114/f8d5ab5f41 Or whose road safety unit does not contain a SINGLE cyclist (my sample size is the 6 who I've had the 'pleasure' of dealing with) amongst their ranks? Institutionally anti-cyclist!!!

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