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Good. Although you do know there are pesky cameras all over the place now ? Amazingly lots of cars have them too. 

brooksby wrote:

JV clearly had it all wrong.  He should have stopped, dismounted, and prostrated himself before his Great Motoring Overlord... 

I can't believe how disrespectful he was. Insubordinate wretch.....

Absolutely no "consideration"

ktache wrote:

Absolutely no "consideration"

#share-the-road

Curious exchange they have based on the video weve seen, why does the driver trigger so quickly into to thinking JV is "in the wrong" for that ?

He's got a fare !

I note that many of the twitter comments show lack of awarness of the door zone and that JV should have know their route so he could give way in advance of whether they might go left, right or straight on !

hirsute wrote:

He's got a fare !

It's not fair!

TFTFY

hirsute wrote:

He's got a fare !

If I was in the back I'd have told him to stop the cab. I'd have got out and walked. He can stick the fare up his arrogant ar5e.

Regardless as to whether he thinks JV is the wrong the 'professional' driver confesses on film to a punishment pass. I trust that he will find out that vigilantism is not mitigation.

Only possible reason is that JV filters up the left while the driver is waiting at the crossing, then gets the jump on him at the crossing while the taxi is still impeded by pedestrians. (check video 4-6 seconds)

He could just as easily have followed the taxi through the crossing and drafted him up the road.

However once in front there is no safe space fo the taxi to pass, and beeping the horn does not change this.

and right at the end the BOLAs on the second parked van probably cause him to be further to the right than he would have otherwise

wycombewheeler wrote:

Only possible reason is that JV filters up the left while the driver is waiting at the crossing, then gets the jump on him at the crossing while the taxi is still impeded by pedestrians. (check video 4-6 seconds)

He could just as easily have followed the taxi through the crossing and drafted him up the road.

I don't think he filtered (happy to be proved wrong). I think he came from the the opposing lane.  It looks like the taxi driver came from the left (looking from teh crossing) where the road is one way with a right and a straight on filter. 

JV I think came from the right which (I think) is 2 way. So the cabbie and JV occupied adjacent lanes. JV moved off after giving way to the ped (rightly natch). At this point the ped is still in front of the cabbie. 

JV didn't so much get the jump on London's Finest, he was naturally in front and so had priority.

wycombewheeler wrote:

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and right at the end the BOLAs on the second parked van .....

Woohoo!

My assumption is it was like Wycombewheeler says, there was some JV filtering we didnt see in the vidx which the cabbie didnt like as it's that while queue etiquette thing us Brits like to fume about alot, even though its perfectly valid move to ride, so not criticism of JV.

As even for a cabbie its fairly crazy on London roads to get that het up just because a cyclist is in front of you.

We shall wait and see what the Met do with it

I think the Cap'n has it right - it looked something like this. It's just the weird effect of the 3D camera perspective and the fisheying that initially makes it look like they've been travelling alongside each other.

mdavidford wrote:

I think the Cap'n has it right - it looked something like this. It's just the weird effect of the 3D camera perspective and the fisheying that initially makes it look like they've been travelling alongside each other.

Fantastic infographic - you work for the BBC and I claim my £5

yes, that's exactly my conclusion

mdavidford wrote:

I think the Cap'n has it right - it looked something like this. It's just the weird effect of the 3D camera perspective and the fisheying that initially makes it look like they've been travelling alongside each other.

so is he doing a wheelie while crossing up his front wheel here

That division line isn't very helpful, because it isn't straight down the centre - it's part of the wibbly-wobbly (technical term) lines leading to the crossing, and they split either side of the island. I think a better guide is the angle of his helmet in relation to the island kerb.

It looks to me like he's come round on the far right hand side of what becomes the left lane (and is possibly just moving away after stopping by the island for the people on the crossing).

The angle of his front wheel may just be because he hasn't yet straightened up after moving off, or he may have intentionally swung away from the taxi, having been able to see, from it's angle of approach, that it was about to try to crash his lane.

mdavidford wrote:

That division line isn't very helpful, because it isn't straight down the centre -

Actually the left of the two lines is pretty straight down the centre, aligned with the point of the triangle, as we see here.

mdavidford wrote:

.. it's part of the wibbly-wobbly ..

Also 

zig zags, not wibbly wobblies

wycombewheeler wrote:

.....so is he doing a wheelie while crossing up his front wheel here

Or has he endoed his rear wheel to the other side of the island?

sarc in teh off position, it's really hard to see which, we would need to see more footage. 

However, what follows is that JV is progressing across teh zebra before the taxi start to move - the ped is still in front. No matter what has happened before, at this point the cabbie is behind, and has no reason to expect to force past.

I just think if he'd ridden in from the bottom on your picture, the natural line youd take is a left turn arc that puts you near the pavement on the left and your bike pointing towards the centre line right side pavement, because that's roughly where you are going next.

But in the video when the jazzy 90s graphics peel away regardless of fish eye distortion of the surroundings, his bike is positioned within the centre line markings of the road already, and pointing towards the left pavement.

Which is exactly where youd be if youd ridden a natural right hand arc from the top of your picture.

And I think that extra lane of this T style junction lane merge,is a cycle lane which runs down the side of the street from top to bottom.

But it only really matters in so far as trying to work out why the cabbie got so irate over completely nothing.

Possible that he moved right on the approach due to people on the crossing on that arm, and then the right side kerb was the most convenient place to stop until the second crossing cleared.

By astonishing coincidence, that's exactly the same diagram that was used to explain my prostate to me (different labels).

GMBasix wrote:

By astonishing coincidence, that's exactly the same diagram that was used to explain my prostate to me (different labels).

Reminds me of my last exam -

Doctor: "Now it's perfectly normal to get an erection Mr Jones"

Mr: "My name's not Mr Jones"

Doctor: "That's me - talking to myself again"

hawkinspeter wrote:

GMBasix wrote:

By astonishing coincidence, that's exactly the same diagram that was used to explain my prostate to me (different labels).

Reminds me of my last exam -

Doctor: "Now it's perfectly normal to get an erection Mr Jones"

Mr: "My name's not Mr Jones"

Doctor: "That's me - talking to myself again"

you had you exam from doctor jones?

did he have a fedora and a whip?