A clown takes a pratfall
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budgie smuggler said:
The only thing he did wrong IMHO was chasing after fatty Arbuckle.
Overtake was idiotic impatience. Narrow road with cars parked both sides, high chance of somebody swinging one of those car doors open causing cyclist to swerve and what's more, there's a completely perfect bit of road for an overtake less than 50 meters ahead.
Nothing wrong with that overtake. I get passed like that all the time, no issue from me. Cyclist had loads of room on his ns and the driver left enough too. Then again, I ride without a camera strapped to my head. Overtake was idiotic impatience. Narrow road with cars parked both sides, high chance of somebody swinging one of those car doors open causing cyclist to swerve and what's more, there's a completely perfect bit of road for an overtake less than 50 meters ahead.
TankRizzo said:
Driver needs anger management therapy and locking away.
Cyclist will end up dead from gobbing off to the wrong person. Had the bloke been a bit more of a nutter and younger, this could have been the time.
Aye, what if 405 man was another Findon man? Cyclist would be nicely ventilated now.Cyclist will end up dead from gobbing off to the wrong person. Had the bloke been a bit more of a nutter and younger, this could have been the time.
kambites said:
It's funny how riding a bike with a camera on your helmet is somehow a social crime; but driving with a camera on your windscreen is proper upstanding-citizen behaviour on PH. 
I've mentioned that before. Long, long thread on which dashcam as they are a necessity on the roads now. However, stick a camera on your cycle helmet and you are a lentilist, road warrior, vegetable eating idiot.
kambites said:
It's funny how riding a bike with a camera on your helmet is somehow a social crime; but driving with a camera on your windscreen is proper upstanding-citizen behaviour on PH.
Think its become like that because of people exactly like this t
t. Cycling along, trying to get in the way, mouthing off at every opportunity and the constant back chat at the end too. Many people now have dash dams and yes, some post up utter garbage of non-events but do they gob off at other road users and give chase just to gob off some more?
Since the surge in these morons posting their stupid little videos up on YouTube every 5 minutes, my experience is that its done more harm than good to the driver vs cyclist relationship.
Put it another way, how much room is that driver going to give the next cyclist he sees?
Gixer said:
budgie smuggler said:
The only thing he did wrong IMHO was chasing after fatty Arbuckle.
Overtake was idiotic impatience. Narrow road with cars parked both sides, high chance of somebody swinging one of those car doors open causing cyclist to swerve and what's more, there's a completely perfect bit of road for an overtake less than 50 meters ahead.
Nothing wrong with that overtake. I get passed like that all the time, no issue from me. Cyclist had loads of room on his ns and the driver left enough too. Then again, I ride without a camera strapped to my head. Overtake was idiotic impatience. Narrow road with cars parked both sides, high chance of somebody swinging one of those car doors open causing cyclist to swerve and what's more, there's a completely perfect bit of road for an overtake less than 50 meters ahead.
Dick Turpin said:
Gixer said:
fk all wrong with that overtake
If you think there was nothing wrong with that overtake, you need to return your licence.k all wrong with that overtakeIt wasn't the worst one ever, but was impatient and stupid and too close.
Gixer said:
Many people now have dash dams and yes, some post up utter garbage of non-events but do they gob off at other road users and give chase just to gob off some more?
Yes they do; unsurprisingly because they're mostly exactly the same people who cycle with cameras on their heads. Gixer said:
That was from a cyclist point of view (which I am). Wish I was given that much room on half the overtakes I get when I'm out.
I'm not sure how you can tell from that image, there's no points of reference from which to judge the angle of the lens. From what I can see that could be a two foot gap (which is too close, but probably more than average) or 2 inches (which would obviously be moronic). Gixer said:
Dick Turpin said:
Gixer said:
fk all wrong with that overtake
If you think there was nothing wrong with that overtake, you need to return your licence.k all wrong with that overtakeIt wasn't the worst one ever, but was impatient and stupid and too close.
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