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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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Yorkshire wallet | 5 years ago
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The guy is a major cock, if just for playing with his own life. I'm assuming he also wouldn't have done that if 2, 16 stone rugby players were in the car.

If he'd ended up under the wheels I doubt the police would have prosecuted the driver based on that evidence. 

The reason I can think of for doing it is it's actually Mark Cavendish practicing his sprint finishes. 

 

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fenix replied to Yorkshire wallet | 5 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

The guy is a major cock, if just for playing with his own life. I'm assuming he also wouldn't have done that if 2, 16 stone rugby players were in the car.

If he'd ended up under the wheels I doubt the police would have prosecuted the driver based on that evidence. 

The reason I can think of for doing it is it's actually Mark Cavendish practicing his sprint finishes. 

 

 

I think he must be a relatively new cyclist too. He's clearly not done that much before as it wouldn't take long before he meets a motorist who is as much of a nob as he is. And crunch.

 

Let the nobby driver go - at least they're ahead of you and not about to mow you down. 

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Canyon48 replied to fenix | 5 years ago
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fenix wrote:

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

The guy is a major cock, if just for playing with his own life. I'm assuming he also wouldn't have done that if 2, 16 stone rugby players were in the car.

If he'd ended up under the wheels I doubt the police would have prosecuted the driver based on that evidence. 

The reason I can think of for doing it is it's actually Mark Cavendish practicing his sprint finishes. 

 

 

I think he must be a relatively new cyclist too. He's clearly not done that much before as it wouldn't take long before he meets a motorist who is as much of a nob as he is. And crunch.

 

Let the nobby driver go - at least they're ahead of you and not about to mow you down. 

Ditto the above.

Whatever the driver was doing, riding like this is nothing but stupid.

If someone is driving like an idiot, then it's so much easier (and not to mention safer) to let them get by.

Someone cycling like that shouldn't be on the road.

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Zigster replied to Yorkshire wallet | 5 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:

If he'd ended up under the wheels I doubt the police would have prosecuted the driver based on that evidence. 

Not sure about that.  I'm confident drivers aren't allowed to run over cyclists for riding like dicks.

Surely, in the same way the safest thing for the cyclist is to let the mental driver to get past, isn't the safest thing for the driver to let the mental cyclist get out of the way rather than continuing to try and force past in that situation?

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Look555 | 5 years ago
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There's reference to an original video which shows more of the story, plus a comment about the driver *thinking* he had given them enough room. Has anyone seen it? The hate and the violence on that FB thread is too depressing to trawl through to see if anyone linked it.

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Zigster | 5 years ago
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I'd find it hard to defend the cyclist - if the driver behind is being a dick then it is usually better to let them get ahead and away from you as soon as possible.  Nothing good can come from swerving like that in front of a driver.

But there must have been a trigger to the behaviour - interesting that there is no sound and no earlier footage.  It looks like the video was taken on a phone rather than a dashcam, so why was the passenger (I'm assuming) filming at that point unless there had been an earlier incident between the cyclist and the driver?

Any other comments on the internet about this?  The facebook post only seems to have about 5 replies, which isn't what I was expecting from the title which suggested social media was erupting over this.

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simonmb | 5 years ago
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Swerving cyclist - I'd says he's being a bit of a dick.

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boardmad | 5 years ago
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...additionally it's no longer accessible on Faceache #justsaying wink

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TheHungryGhost replied to boardmad | 5 years ago
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boardmad wrote:

...additionally it's no longer accessible on Faceache #justsaying wink

 

It's still on FB, just went for a look.

The other day, I was watching The Purge TV series, and was discussing with the better half, as to whether we thought that if murder was legal for one night of the year, would we or anyone we know actually go out and kill.  Given the comments on the FB post, I would suggest not riding on Purge night.

I've seen it so many times on forums, but it still worries me how many people think that its OK to suggest murdering someone, because they ride a bike.  

 

 

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boardmad replied to TheHungryGhost | 5 years ago
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My bad...I don't use the facebook so am probably doing it wrong.

I've given up being disappointed with heinous driving behaviours...I got yelled at, then swerved and brake-tested coming into town last week just because I filtered infront of stationary traffic at a light then had the temerity to be infront of a van who objected on principle to my existence.

If I'd got that wrong and come off infront of traffic behind me, that van driver would have killed someone...plain and simple.

TheHungryGhost wrote:

It's still on FB, just went for a look.

The other day, I was watching The Purge TV series, and was discussing with the better half, as to whether we thought that if murder was legal for one night of the year, would we or anyone we know actually go out and kill.  Given the comments on the FB post, I would suggest not riding on Purge night.

I've seen it so many times on forums, but it still worries me how many people think that its OK to suggest murdering someone, because they ride a bike.  

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Master Bean | 5 years ago
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No sound on the video so can't tell if the car is beeping or not.

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boardmad | 5 years ago
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Hmmmm....the swerving cyclist?

Any video we post to a police authority as evidence of dodgy driving  needs to contain at least 5mins of video prior to the alledged incident?  Unless the OP has this additional content that shows them driving along minding his own business and being viciously swerved infront of by this cyclist then I'd be healthily sceptical of the nature of this clip.

Riders rarely (I won't say never!) go off on one at a vehicle putting themselves in very significant danger without due cause?

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