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Moped rider aims kick at cyclist (Micaela Mitchell)Near Miss of the Day 747: Moped rider aims kick at cyclist (video contains swearing)
Today’s near miss is a bit of an unusual one, coming as it does courtesy of a reckless road user on two wheels rather than four.
Last Friday evening a road.cc reader was riding on the coast road towards Brighton when a passing moped rider – L plate prominently attached to the back of their bike – aimed a kick in their direction.
And that wasn’t even the extent of the rider’s bizarre and dangerous behaviour.
> Near Miss of the Day 31: Delivery moped rider in left-hook
“The driver was driving erratically and even drove onto the pavement at one point,” they told us.
“I sent the video to Sussex Police and all they did was send a letter to the registered owner. This guy is going to kill someone and Sussex Police do not care.”
> Near Miss of the Day turns 100 - Why do we do the feature and what have we learnt from it?
Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.
If you’ve caught on camera a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with another road user that you’d like to share with the wider cycling community please send it to us at info [at] road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.
If the video is on YouTube, please send us a link, if not we can add any footage you supply to our YouTube channel as an unlisted video (so it won't show up on searches).
Please also let us know whether you contacted the police and if so what their reaction was, as well as the reaction of the vehicle operator if it was a bus, lorry or van with company markings etc.
> What to do if you capture a near miss or close pass (or worse) on camera while cycling
After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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These are obviously scroats that ride around on unregistered or nicked mopeds causing hassle and nicking motorbikes. Round our way they pull up alongside motorcyclists at red lights and reach over and nick your keys from the ignition. Then others on mopeds push you off and nick it. They kick car doors and cyclists when they are passing them. The police started to ram them off their mopeds when they got chance but there was so much outcry about the poor little scroats that they had to stop. Shame.
The London METs brief ramming approval was glorious.
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
If that's the extent of the video supplied to the police then I'm not too surprised they determined there wasn't enough evidence to put any charge beyond reasonable doubt.
"I was stretching my leg, sir!"
Haha! love her potty mouth! you go girl!
You can happily piss in my water bottle....
But. You definitely, 100%, for sure will not get away with kicking me off my bike. I will catch up to you and twat you with my accoutrements.
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.
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.