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It’s an interesting one this. I do think there are ‘shades of Auriol Grey’ to it.
The location looks to be here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dSssfk6dZMtivTfm7It’s a pedestrianised street that allows motorised vehicles for loading and disabled access, overnight between 5pm and 10:30am. The timestamp on the video is 16:55, so a pedestrian might expect vehicles to be using that street around the time of the incident.
Now, clearly this is an illegal motorbike being driven carelessly (if not dangerously), due to the excessive speed. The risks are orders of magnitude greater than a cyclist riding carefully on a shared pavement (or regular pavement). There is a line where force can be used to prevent a crime from occuring, but it’s questionable whether this meets that bar.
If this pedestrian did deliberately knock the rider off their bike and the rider was very seriously injured or killed, then was that use of force proportionate? We would only find out if it had gone to court, but I suspect the pedestrian could have been in a whole heap of trouble.
There’s a clear difference between this and Auriol Grey though in that Auriol moved towards her victim in order to remonstrate/assault, whereas this instance doesn’t show that kind of deliberate aggression.
Personally, I think that if someone is close enough that merely lifting your hand up causes contact, then they’re within your personal space and shouldn’t be travelling at speed as that’s clearly dangerous (to themselves by the look of things).
Could be the pivot bolt that
Could be the pivot bolt that attaches the derailleur to the frame. You’ll need to undo the cage to get to it, but the pivot bolt is just a hex key fitting (careful you don’t displace the spring inside as it can be fiddly putting it in the right place).
Edit: I’ve just had a look at the exploded view (https://dassets.shimano.com/content/dam/global/cg1SHICCycling/final/ev/ev/EV-RD-R8000-GS-4285A.pdf) and I’m thinking of the pivot bolt that attaches the cage to the derailleur body, not the derailleur to the frame.
Sriracha wrote:
That has a “he ran into my fist” sort of ring to it. I can fully empathise with the pedestrian, I’ve had exactly the same impulse in similar circumstances. But I do believe he deliberately caused the crash. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/teenage-biker-hits-pedestrian-races-29733329%5B/quote%5DWalesonline reports: [Quote]when the pedestrian saw him coming towards him he held out his hands in a “slow down type gesture”. The court heard that as Stanciu raced past the man he struck his victim’s hand before losing control of his bike, falling off, and sliding along the wet road.It’s like when cars close pass – if you can touch them, then they’re too close. I must admit to not having any sympathy for the bike rider and hopefully they’ve learnt an important lesson.
Looks like they’ve already
Looks like they’ve already corrected it to “electric motorcycle rider”. However, they’ve still got the browser page title as “Watch as e-bike rider crashes into pedestrian in Port Talbot”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/gallery/audi-stranded-flood-water-under-9537534
Pass the wellies!
(That tunnel is prone to flooding – I often cycle through there)
There’s a good action photo of the drain being unblocked:
Single vehicle incident !Let’s hope the passenger did a breathalyser test.
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24566748.police-car-crashed-outside-southend-victoria-station/
The traffic sign was not wearing any kind of protective equipment and is currently helping police with their enquiries. It has not presently been charged with any crime.
JLasTSR wrote:
With respect this is rubbish. It is a segregated lane with red lights for a pedestrian crossing and if the light is red you stop. Even if nobody is on the crossing. We all know that is the case. You can argue the timings are wrong or that the rule should be different, that is fine. To break the rule of law and say it is OK is just plain wrong, hideously conceited , and just bloody ridiculous. How cannot it not incense everyone. And I hate having to stop if I don’t have to for precisely the reasons you mention but flagrantly breaking the law is not something I would ever consider.If following a law puts me at greater risk of injury than not following it, then I put my safety first. However, lots of RLJing is done out of convenience and to save energy – that happens because traffic laws are seldom respected by other traffic (e.g. speeding, phone use etc) and so it seems pointless to obey traffic lights that don’t take cyclists into account.
Ultimately, if you don’t want people to break the law, then we need greater traffic policing so that people think that there’s a good chance that they’ll be caught sooner or later. I would happily wait at traffic lights if I knew that other traffic was taking care and not endangering me. (e.g. On a holiday in Copenhagen, it was surprising to see almost total compliance with traffic lights by pedestrians, cyclists and e-scooterists.)
Cyclists jumping red lights
Cyclists jumping red lights is a symptom of how traffic lights are designed for motor traffic and not for cyclists.
There’s plenty of instances where it’s safer for a cyclist to go through on red (when it’s clear, obviously) rather than wait with the motor traffic and then get left-hooked when the lights turn green.
It’d be worth having a look at how other countries try to prevent traffic lights becoming a burden for cyclists (e.g. having to stop and then accelerate back up to speed is energy intensive for commuters) by either providing separate infrastructure that doesn’t need to be controlled by lights or by amending laws such as the “Idaho Stop” to allow cyclists to use their own judgement on red lights.
Have a read of this fine article: https://road.cc/content/news/cyclists-rolling-through-stop-signs-isnt-safety-risk-310053
If cyclists are safer when they don’t always obey red lights, then what is the purpose of people insisting on cyclists having to obey them? To my mind, it’s simply to out-group cyclists and treat them as a problem rather than the solution (to health, congestion and polution).
Don’t touch my car!
Don’t touch my car!
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/man-banned-touching-cars-sheffield-29833148
It doesn’t surprise me at all
It doesn’t surprise me at all as the BBC don’t particularly care about reporting guidelines as they deal with their own complaines (i.e. send an email a month after the complaint detailing that they’re either ignoring it or will change the details for a month old article that no-one will come across and read again). They are bastions of motonormativity and it’s rare that they can have an article featuring cyclists without it being focussed on helmet use.
Here’s the guidelines: https://www.rc-rg.com/guidelines
It does, doesn’t it?Were they aiming for a big flat open field, or did they misjudge how wide the road was?
I think they were aiming to stay in the air a bit longer. A witness said that it “looked like it stalled and nose-dived into the main road”.
Still, any landing that you can walk away from is a good landing.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/plane-crashes-a419-gloucestershire-inches-9513927
(That pic looks like it’s photoshopped)
Overtaking and passing are two different things. Overtaking a moving vehicle and crossing a solid line is illegal. Passing a parked car and crossing a solid white line could well be regarded as necessary; therefore legal, otherwise all cars would be unable to get past obstructions.
In this particular case the cyclist appears to have priority regardless of whether the lines are broken or solid.I like to apply a simple rule to determine who has priority – the person performing a maneouvre should give way to the person travelling in their lane.
Absolute nutters – anyone who uses a unicycle to get somewhere – and the world is a much better place for themI used to commute to work on a unicycle, but it was only a couple of miles and part of that was on the Bristol-Bath cycle path. When I moved house, I got put off by having to deal with my journey being mainly on the road (or having to deal with lots of kerbs if using the pavement). That’s when I started using a bike instead.
That’s a lot of pedalling, unless they’ve got touring ones!(Yes, you could add gears also, for a price…)
That geared hub is expensive!
