Live blog: Team Sunweb channel Mission Impossible, swerving cyclist intentionally blocking car infuriates social media (but is all as it seems?),+ more

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. 

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.

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?

boardmad wrote:

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

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.  

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.