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Cycler path mototbike rider (via Jeremuy Vine on Twitter).PNGVideo: Jeremy Vine films motorcyclist whizzing along cycle path
Broadcaster Jeremy Vine has tweeted a video showing the moment a motorcycle rider whizzed past - while riding on a cycle path.
The BBC presenter often posts footage recorded on his bike commutes to the social network - including one that earlier this year helped secure the conviction of a motorist following a road rage incident.
> Jeremy Vine road rage driver jailed after losing appeal
However, the video he uploaded at lunchtime today was taken from the passenger seat of a car that Vine was travelling in.
Good to see London’s cycle lanes used flexibly pic.twitter.com/y4FT4KzBWo
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) January 1, 2018
The engine of the off-road bike can clearly be heard as the rider approaches from behind and then, as he shoots off into the distance, a puff of smoke is emitted from the exhaust.
"Unbelievable" is Vine's verdict at the end of the video.
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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Straight into the sun is perhaps an exaggeration, but at that time it would be about ESE, and there are bits of the road which head roughly SSE, so...
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7 October was just a bit of harmless fun until the "msm" ramped it up.
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It's not censored if you just pirate it
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an example of Kesgraves "best cycling infrastructure in the country" https://maps.app.goo.gl/GsCMbzDUTPdq59qS9
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They are not going full gas at every point. They would destroy themselves. And tactics, they save themselves for when effort is really needed....
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It turns out that that is national police policy. We found out from this process that there is national 'secured by design' policy which causes...
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Been available for quite a while, full GRX mechanical 12 speed. Probably around the same time as 105 mechanical 12 speed if I were to guess.
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Nope, it's to keep your straps down and quieter. Plus most sunglasses are polycarbonate and aren't going to shatter like glass anyway
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And, more seriously, where's the coverage of the closure of the cycle lane which forces you to cycle on the Totton bypass.
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cycled past a guy ziggzagging on a moped on the fallowfield loop a few months back. All I said was 'careful' as I passed him. Resulted in the guy swearing and revving his engine at me from behind passing me, waiting and doing the same for a couple of miles before he sverved off to make off to the shithole he probably sprang from. I have got it on video but not worth posting off to the police as the number plate was taped off, and he was all in black with helmet. Now at least I know why noone ever greets or responds to greetings when cycling on the fallowfield loop.... lol
Looks like the A316 eastbound just before Hospital Bridhe Roundabout in Hanworth.
It's not a road legal bike as others have said and generally if you see someone riding a motorbike without a helmet they are up to no good (as the Police won't chase them if they haven't got a helmet on).
This is just the motorbike equivalent of chav on BSO. No doubt most bikers at least have the full licence and insurance gig. This bloke is just a shitstain doing shitstain things and happens to be using a motorbike. He's probably off out in a stolen car later.
It's all hardly 'unbelievable' unless you never go outside.
They take the shortcut along the cycle track after they have just shot someone.
This isn't America. He's just stabbed someone instead.
Hardly unbelievable. Certainly not as concerning as uninsured/unlicensed/drink/drug/phone/incompetent motorists.
Wake up wellsprop. The guy was speeding along on a motorbike using a path designed for pedestrians and cyclists. He wasn't wearing a helmet. if he did have insurance it would be void for riding without a helmet and not on the the road. I wouldn't be surprised if he was also intoxicated and chances are the motorbike was stolen.
Travelling at that speed if he had hit an unsuspecting cyclist or pedestrian the consequences could have been fatal. Do you really think that behaviour is not on par with car drivers committing the same offences. At least car drivers don't fly along cycle paths.
Finally...
http://car using path to overtake cyclists
It's a pit bike and is not road legal. These are for off-road use on private land only, not that it stops some idiots from buying these things and riding them wherever they like. There is a correlation between the ownership and use of pit bikes and other criminal activity. Basically if you don't have a big plot of land of your own to ride one on, like a farm for instance, why would you want one?
Some lads in our area have them and are to be seen whizzing across the local park from time to time. I took some footage of them a while back but I was too far away for it to be usable so I didn't send it to the cops.
Except he is a motorist and is probably uninsured, unlicensed and definitely incompetent.
There's no probably with regard to his being uninsured. The bike is not road legal. Trust me, he has no insurance.
As another post comments, this is to motorcycling as a chav on a BSO is to cycling. It's unlikely the rider has a licence, as why would someone with one want to risk their licence riding illegally on a bike that's not road legal? There is a strong possibility that the rider is involved with some sort of low level criminality as well. There is a correlation between risk taking behaviour and breaking laws of one sort, linking with lawbreaking of other types. The guys who ride pit bikes round our way tend to be involved with the local gangs and/or in dealing in drugs.
Won't someone think about what possibly might happen? And the horrific consequences???
It happened to me. I had a full head on with one on a bike path. Fortunately only broken bones etc for me but could have been much worse. I was 46 at the time. If it had been somebody 6 or 66 I wouldn't have fancied their chances.
No real difference between that guy and someone on an e-bike, just less noise.
Except about 15mph or so
The MASS of a motorcycle means there is a lot of momentum that will be transfered to any victim they collide with who will likely be killed.
Cool story, bro.
Legally, very different.
As they are faster and heavier they would cause more injuries to anyone they hit. https://news.sky.com/story/cctv-video-shows-harrowing-moment-girl-is-mow...
Seriously?
It is both faster & heavier than any eBike I've seen. I know which one I'd rather be hit by if I really had to choose.
To be honest, a motorbike on a Cycle Path and who isn't a Deliveroo is quite uncommon
Unless you happen to have a local traveler site or be close to a rough estate. Unfortunatly kids on the tow path on pit bikes are far too commen a site close to me.
"Unbelievable!", says telly presenter. "Totally believable and how have you never seen that before?", says everyone else...