Near Miss of the Day 747: Moped rider aims kick at cyclist (video contains swearing)

The London METs brief ramming approval was glorious.

OldRidgeback wrote:

As a motorcyclist, I've not much time for riders of twist and go scooter riders like this. They ride like utter twunts all too often. I get it with delivery riders at least because they're paid by the delivery so basically have to go flat out everywhere to make any kind of money, not that I condone the dangerous riding they often exhibit. But a lot of L plate riders on scooters behave like complete p*****.

As a cyclist I've probably even less time for twunts on scooters. 

I see it the other way - although I would also be saying things if I saw people being berks:

1) Scooterists - yeah all that true and no doubt mostly illegal (several ways) but that shouldn't be punishable by death / injury.

2) Delivery riders - minimal sympathy.  Not entirely the individuals' issues (a hard job for peanuts) and this is beyond the topic slightly but said delivery companies have a business model which essentially screws everyone over (for services I personally think we can mostly do without - not that the world cares).  They want the most deliveries per unit time using minimally trained "workers" and so inevitably you get all the non-standard road use.  So such businesses by design stuff other road / pavement users, stuff their "not employees, honest" and even their customer service tends to be poor. (Yes I know, it's actually our fault collectively because we want it now.  It's also our fault because smartphones and internet and so people want to make new businesses essentially from websites without needing anything but IT skills and marketing so we get this sort of thing.  While I'm at it I'm also not happy about the invention of fire - no-one consulted me first...)

How much training have they done? A one day CBT, and that's probably it; that really isn't going to give them any road sense, awareness, etc 

HoarseMann wrote:

Wearing a WH05 DAT hoodie from a clothing supplier owned by someone with the same name as a person jailed for 15 months for dangerous driving...

Chance of this rider being a wrong 'un is high!

Her description was spot on too

https://news.sky.com/video/man-jailed-after-filming-himself-driving-dang...

Not one of them wearing hi-vis clothing. Couldn't see many (protective) helmets there either. Riding through red lights. Riding down the wrong side of the road. Bedlam. If only there were some kind of licensing and insurance laws that could prevent this sort of behaviour.

I'm surprised he got 15 months for that.

fenix wrote:

I'm surprised he got 15 months for that.

Yep. Also banned for 31 months. Looking at his social media, he's only just got a licence, but nearly had a head-on during his test and has already had a crash where someone has been injured. He continues to ride exactly the same way and was riding unlicenced, whilst still banned, when released from prison.

I don't have a problem with riders who are careful and choose a good time and place where they can mess about, as long as they don't endanger anyone else but themselves. I guess this guy got the book thrown at him because he is actively promoting and organising this sort of illegal riding. It's not changed his ways though!

Interestingly, a comment on a post about cyclists riding centrally in the lane advocates sticking a leg out to knock them off. So much for 2-wheeled brethren!

Might be worth highlighting that to the person in the video given that it seems that the rider is following through on a premeditated plan for violence which makes it a far more serious offence, along with incitement, and therefore of interest to the police..

I don't think the rider in the video is the same as the guy who sells the WH05DAT hoodies or the person who commented about sticking your leg out. But it does show there's an attitude there amongst some who follow this BikeLife stuff.