road.cc live blog: Team Sky bike build, motorist documents crap cycling with dashcam + more

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1. What a massive compilation…
   What a massive compilation…..a number of incidents that could be counted on one hand.

   Clearly this person needs needs to type in UK dashcams into YouTube for some real stupidity.

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2. It does surprise me the

   It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

   The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

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   • J886atv wrote:

     It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

     The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

     — J886atv

     http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

     cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
      
     noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
      
     Origin of cyclist
     First recorded in 1880-85; cycle + -ist

     ​If there’s a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it – does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
      

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     • brooksby wrote:

       It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

       The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

       — brooksby

       http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

       cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
        
       noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
        
       Origin of cyclist
       First recorded in 1880-85; cycle + -ist

       ​If there’s a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it – does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
        

       — J886atv

       Exactly, how many comments here on sh#t drivers & driving, when not all of them are terrible?

       Many sporting cyclist also don’t like to stop for red traffic lights, & if they do, will stop past the cycle box etc. So maybe it’s just anybody slower than them at the time?

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       • I love my bike wrote:

         ……..

         The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

         — I love my bike

         http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

         cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
         
          
         
         noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
         
          
         
         ……

         ​If there’s a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it – does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
         
          

         — brooksby

         Exactly, how many comments here on sh#t drivers & driving, when not all of them are terrible?

         …….

         — J886atv

         What’s this? Fellows denying the fundamentalist Blighters’ right to stereotype others on the basis of one  example of the lowest demeanour!!? One feels that such denialists of this Basic Freedom To Be An Intolerant And Unthinking British Pillock should be reported to The Daily Mail, so that the denialist too can be villified with a handy Mail Hate-Them label.

         Everyone knows that all teenagers, cyclists, motorists and women are Very Bad Indeed, as my Great Uncle Barmpot pointed out years ago, just before he had his apoplexy. He had other lists of Vey Bad Types, which included Those Who Begin At Calais, People From Not-Here & Anyone Disagreeing With Me. Also Wives, Neighbours and even Cats & Dogs (and Horses).

         If Uncle Barmpot was alive today, he would be pleased to see that his notion is gaining ascendency, perhaps stimulating him to poop his horn gleefully whilst running over a child, a cyclist and a horse all on the same day, as that would teach them.

         Cugel, sterotypically compromised in several fashions.

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         • Cugel wrote:

           as my Great Uncle Barmpot pointed out years ago, just before he had his apoplexy. He had other lists of Vey Bad Types, which included Those Who Begin At Calais, People From Not-Here & Anyone Disagreeing With Me. Also Wives, Neighbours and even Cats & Dogs (and Horses).

           If Uncle Barmpot was alive today,

           — Cugel

            

           Are you sure he’s actually dead, he may just be hiding in a garden shed commenting on road cc under then name Valbrona…

     • brooksby wrote:

       It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

       The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

       — brooksby

       http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cyclist

       cyclist ​(or cycler) [sahy-klist]
        
       noun 1. a person who rides or travels by bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
        
       Origin of cyclist
       First recorded in 1880-85; cycle + -ist

       ​If there’s a more narrow definition, then please do expand on it – does it depend on particular clothing, or particular type of bicycle, or is it just on whether the person is doing something you approve of?  
        

       — J886atv

       Yes, I guess by definition, an irresponsible twat on a bike is still a cyclist. Just as a drunk car thief, high on drugs, driving the wrong way on a one-way street is still a motorist.

       I’m just hopeful that the above descriptions do not apply to the vast majority of RoadCC readers!

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   • J886atv wrote:

     The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

     — J886atv

     I assume by your comment that in your oppinion a cyclist is only a cyclist when they wear racing type lycra? Why have you not pulled up the articles classification of the person capturing the video as a “motorist” as he is unlikely to be wearing motor racing type gear?

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   • J886atv wrote:

     It does surprise me the number of people who have crap / no lights.

     The last clip was a ‘yoof’ in a hoody – a user of a bicycle rather than a cyclist.  But we’re all tarred with one brush!

     — J886atv

     When you ride with bicycle lights you are just making drivers complacent and it makes it less safe for everyone else.

     For greater safety of the cycling population you should ride without lights, in dark clothing and preferably doing a wheelie for 50% of the journey (at least)

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3. I make no apologies for the

   I make no apologies for the cyclists without lights on….but the “Cycling” infrastructure in St Neots and the county of Cambridgeshire is ….well….. Crap… if you look at the shot of the St Neots Bridge…you’ll see the painted cycle symbol in th road…. great huh…. 

   The driver also never slowed on the last clip where the Danger triangle with cycle in it was positioned well before the bend…..  when the hooded chap on the bike “rode” out in front of him, the biker should also have looked in the drivers defence…

   This cycling is normal for these parts as many don’t care because they can get away with it as the Police don’t give a sh*t …I don’t condone their behaivour…and I’d sell loads more lights if they took responsibility for themselves and other road users……  Clearly too….the driver is like most of them a “Guardian of the road”…. 

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4. Its worth repeating that it

   Its worth repeating that it is nothing like the amount of idiots you can watch on Youtube care of dashcams, in fact I subscribe to a few channels simply because they are so entertaining both for the car drivers and bicycle riders.

   On the other hand – since Christmas and every evening that I have cycled home on my regular commute I have passed by what I can only assume is someone who recently got banned from driving and thinks he’s found the perfect way to get to work – wearing a black suit and black full length raincoat and black wooly hat with his briefcase strapped onto his black bike and with no lights and what I suspect is ye olde rod brakes and down twisting country lanes that have no lighting… I wonder what he plans to do when the M6 is closed down and car rivers use the same roads as a shortcut/ratrun doing 60 odd MPH, which they regularly do despite the fact there are dire warning signs about horses and livestock dotted all over the place that they completely ignore.

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5. That last example, I have to

   That last example, I have to say that I thought the driver was travelling at a speed excessive for the roads he was driving on. This was demonstrated when we narrowly avoided an accident with teh cyclist. 

   The cyclist was also conducting himself in a less than exemplary manner, but that last one was a solid 50/50 IMO.

   As for red light jumping, I see it all the time… mainly by car drivers who seem to believe that if a light has only just turned red, it isn’t as red as a proper red. I genuinely see little red light jumping from cyclists and those that do, generally do it a lot more safely than the car drivers I see blindly accelerating through a red light. 

   I have to say though, i can see no reason why you wouldn’t have lights on your bike. 

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6. Err, where’s the video?

   Err, where’s the video?

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7. Bout half way down, unless

   Bout half way down, unless you’ve got an ad blocker on, then it may not be there…

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