A clown takes a pratfall

[zarjaz1991]

The pratfall is fantastic but both are angry nobs who would be better staying off the roads altogether.

[Baryonyx]

Idiots attract, as evidenced by the video.

[Stig]

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.

Given where this happened - that is sadly far more likely than you may think!

[TankRizzo]

Otispunkmeyer said:

Aye, what if 405 man was another Findon man? Cyclist would be nicely ventilated now.

I truly believe we're not far away from seeing helmetcam footage on the news of the wearer himself getting attacked and killed.

I have a dashcam in my car, and yes I get annoyed at how people drive - but I don't chase after them and gob off at them, even though I'm in a protective metal box which can get away quickly.

[otolith]

[Dick Turpin]

Gixer said:

Dick Turpin said:

Yeah, it could be 2 feet or 2 inches, but it was most definitely well substandard and impatient.

Gixer said there was nothing wrong with it, which I was taking issue with.

Look at my previous post. Why is he still out in the middle of the road? Look at all that room he could give himself.

If you go out looking for trouble, generally you are going to find trouble. Regardless of what you are in or on.

I get passed closer than that every day. I don't chase after drivers to gob off at them.

Regardless of the positioning of the cyclist, that doesn't excuse the driver from performing an unsafe overtake.

I have not commented on anything else you said, just disagreeing with your earlier post that there was nothing wrong with the overtake.

[alpha channel]

Taking the video at face value I've seen far closer overtakes at far higher speeds on an empty dual carriage of all places. I have to say I muttered some expletives when I saw just how close the blue Octavia got to the cyclist at an easy sixty-seventy.

As for these two... the cyclist could've pulled into the gap between the two cars on his left (with possibly a slight reduction in speed, which would've happened at the junction ahead), let the car past and get on with his day, the ugly Pug could've and should've been a damn sight more patient, though the ending is pure comedy meme gold .

[Gixer]

Dick Turpin said:

Regardless of the positioning of the cyclist, that doesn't excuse the driver from performing an unsafe overtake.

I have not commented on anything else you said, just disagreeing with your earlier post that there was nothing wrong with the overtake.

I've watched the video again. To me, the driver waited for the cyclist to clear the parked cars before overtaking, probably anticipating the cyclist to move in by the time he was alongside. Later in the video the driver asks the cyclist why he was in the middle of the road.

I'm not defending the driver but it is clear the cyclist was looking to be awkward and was even looking confrontation.

Whilst we'd all like to be given full cars width when passed, in the real world the roads are busy and people always in a rush, I find that kind of gap is pretty much the norm when I'm being passed on my bike. My concern is the negative impact these types are causing to us as road users.

As I said earlier, go looking for trouble and you will find it.

If he had any awareness and courtesy at all, he could easily have moved in after passing the last parked car allowing the car to pass at a full cars width gap before pulling back out for the next row of parked cars. He put himself in that situation with st in courteous riding.

A case of Mr Angry 2 wheels meeting Mr Angry 4 wheels.

[Dick Turpin]

Gixer said:

I've watched the video again. To me, the driver waited for the cyclist to clear the parked cars before overtaking, probably anticipating the cyclist to move in by the time he was alongside. Later in the video the driver asks the cyclist why he was in the middle of the road.

I'm not defending the driver but it is clear the cyclist was looking to be awkward and was even looking confrontation.

Whilst we'd all like to be given full cars width when passed, in the real world the roads are busy and people always in a rush, I find that kind of gap is pretty much the norm when I'm being passed on my bike. My concern is the negative impact these types are causing to us as road users.

As I said earlier, go looking for trouble and you will find it.

If he had any awareness and courtesy at all, he could easily have moved in after passing the last parked car allowing the car to pass at a full cars width gap before pulling back out for the next row of parked cars. He put himself in that situation with st in courteous riding.

A case of Mr Angry 2 wheels meeting Mr Angry 4 wheels.

I don't disagree with most of that, although I don't see why the cyclist should have had to get out of the way of the driver when there was a junction coming up anyway, so it wouldn't have made any difference to the driver to have just waited behind.

I was purely disagreeing with your original post that there was nothing wrong with the overtake.

A question though - if the driver is in such a hurry that he can't wait behind for 30 seconds, how has he suddenly got the time to argue with the cyclist for several minutes?

[Gixer]

I think it may also be a case of what you are used to. I know when my friends come down from Huntingdon and we go out cycling around my area, they have often commented on impatient drivers and cars passing close. To me its the norm!

[Dick Turpin]

Gixer said:

I think it may also be a case of what you are used to. I know when my friends come down from Huntingdon and we go out cycling around my area, they have often commented on impatient drivers and cars passing close. To me its the norm!

Me too, but that doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with it.

[ILoveMondeo]

Car driver was massively provoked by the prick on the bike.

Who also turns out to me a massive pussy by riding off when it was about to come to blows, poke poke poke poke, oh st just got real, run away!

He was lucky the guy didn't catch him.

I don't doubt the adenoidal creep would have got a proper pasting.

Doesn't excuse car drivers behavior, nobody should go around getting that worked up and trying to lamp people, and I guess he got what he deserved, but definitely wouldn't have been the case if the bike guy wasn't such a fking dweeb. "you've just committed an assault"

So a complete pair of tools then.

As for the overtake by the car... I'm not sure I wouldn't have made that maneuver, cant be certain though as the cameras dont give the best view of how much space there was or wasn't.

No clue how I'd react to a cyclist giving me a load of abuse like that either. Probably just sit there like a rabbit in the headlights staring at the loony.

[Hackney]

Tonto said:

I'm surprised angry man decided to vent his anger in the form of some impromptu break dancing

It was interpretive dance wasn't it?

Sorry I missed him getting out of the Peugeot as I assume he'd welded the doors shut General Lee style the way he kept leaning his whole upper body out of it.

[talksthetorque]

Fantastic!
Watching that has made my day.
One prick gets massively aggressive to the point that he manages to deck himself.
Other prick gets taken to task and now has to go home to his mums and try and wash poo out of his chamois gusset.

Edited by talksthetorque on Friday 31st July 20:57

[Studio117]

talksthetorque said:

Fantastic!
Watching that had made my day. One prick falls gets massively aggressive to the point of decking himself, another prick gets taken to task and now has to go home to his mums and try and wash poo out of his chamois gusset.

[FunkyNige]

Dick Turpin said:

I don't disagree with most of that, although I don't see why the cyclist should have had to get out of the way of the driver when there was a junction coming up anyway, so it wouldn't have made any difference to the driver to have just waited behind.

I was purely disagreeing with your original post that there was nothing wrong with the overtake.

A question though - if the driver is in such a hurry that he can't wait behind for 30 seconds, how has he suddenly got the time to argue with the cyclist for several minutes?

I think moving over if there's room to let a faster vehicle past is just general courtesy rather than something you have to do, I know when I'm out cycling and I hear a car coming up behind I'll shift to the left more than I normally would to help them out.

[akirk]

so the cyclist incriminates himself by cycling off down a pavement at then end - only one clearly breaking the law

[PositronicRay]

It's a set up, that fall looks rehearsed.

[Camoradi]

That escalated pretty quickly from fairly innocuous beginnings

Cyclist was doing a fair speed on the pavement at the end to get away from the driver. Between them they could have hurt someone else

[FourWheelDrift]

Camoradi said:

Cyclist was doing a fair speed on the pavement at the end to get away from the driver.

Good point. Cycling on the pedestrian pavement is an offence under Section 72 of the Highways Act 1835. It's a fixed penalty notice of £30 up to a maximum of £2,500 if it involves dangerous cycling, for example like the tt who was in the news knocking over the little child and riding away.