NO...Cyclists don't ride on pavements or jump red lights at all.

Bowling_4_Gold

If you click on Gaz's channel, you will see that the majority of the videos he posts are of car driver mistakes. Silly Cyclists is just to balance it out (b.t.w he's up to episode 26 if you look at his channel).

It's fair to say both sides make mistakes - yet it is potentially more life-threatening when the mistake is on the driver's part, thus many cyclists post about driver's mistakes on the internet. If drivers can see mistakes happening, they can learn and know what to look out for.

Cyclist channels of interest include:

Gaz545 (obviously)
CyclingMikey (on a recumbent)
AtomBoy (in Hungary)

FATBALLZ

Wow you have proof that less than 100% of all bicycle riders are perfect. Have a lollipop.

mikey72

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unLHmYyAw5g&feature=related

Sometimes you have to feel sorry for cyclists.

Blobby8_2

mikey72 wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unLHmYyAw5g&feature=related

Sometimes you have to feel sorry for cyclists.

Cannot condone the drivers actions, but they were in the way, had the road been closed for their "protest" ?

mikey72

Even if it wasn't I don't think that gives you a right to run them down, even if they are blocking the road.

mustrum_ridcully

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I spotted this whilst looking for something else. It proves there are some very dangerous and idiot road users out their.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWlrrTBnDaM&feature=related

Why didn't you post these videos then (by the same bloke that uploaded the video you linked to)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtLKOK3jg4o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O_k2ixv7-w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOhBEmt-C9A

or this even

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWxak4cwPzc

Anyone one of these incidents could have been fatal.

johnfarquhar74

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Sorry, but I can't sign up to something in order to watch it.

Mmmm? Sorry, I thought the links were free to click, don't think I had to subscribe to anything?

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I notice that the driver was arrested etc., why were the "Crazy racers not arrested?" Where was the police investigation there?

I'm surprised there wasn't a police investigation in regards to the crazy London cycle, especially as you see a police car quite early on getting cut up.
As for the Edinburgh driver, whoever it was committed enough infractions to lose his license but his biggest mistake was posting it on the WWW! That was, IMO, the silliest thing he done!

passatrider

I'm sick and tired of all the constant bashing of cyclists that seems to be surfacing just lately.
Yes, there are bad cyclists as there are bad drivers but we are all people at the end of the day.

The real reason that motorists hate cyclists is that they slow them down thats all. We live in a fast pace world now and respect for others has gone out of the window. God forbid if anything such as a cyclist or horserider - in fact just about anything that dosen't keep up with the flow of traffic.

I fear things will only get worse to be honest. Britain is breeding a very aggressive and nasty set of road users where it's every man for himself.

Very sad!:(

harveybobbles

If a cyclist annoys me by driving like a spanner then I usually go past them in 2nd gear at 30mph and cover them in diesel fumes as they REALLY irritate me when they jump red lights etc.

Flyboy152

Bowling_4_Gold wrote: »

If you click on Gaz's channel, you will see that the majority of the videos he posts are of car driver mistakes. Silly Cyclists is just to balance it out (b.t.w he's up to episode 26 if you look at his channel).

It's fair to say both sides make mistakes - yet it is potentially more life-threatening when the mistake is on the driver's part, thus many cyclists post about driver's mistakes on the internet. If drivers can see mistakes happening, they can learn and know what to look out for.

There has never been any argument as to who is more vulnerable, but it stands to reason that the cyclist needs to take responsibility for their own actions, as much a the motorist should for theirs.

The point I have been trying to make, is the erroneous assumptions of many cyclists, who automatically blame the driver when a collision occurs. Gaz545 has been as guilty as others on that score. But nonetheless, the fact still remains that not all collisions are the fault of the car driver. There was a thread about having a strict liability of blame against the driver in ALL collisions. This thread is to prove that can never be the case.

Cyclist channels of interest include:

Gaz545 (obviously)
CyclingMikey (on a recumbent)

:eek: Good God, he actually did it again! I can imagine the headlines, in the cycling magazines, on that one. "Cyclist Murdered By Lorry Driver."

AtomBoy (in Hungary)

I would be wonderful if all the roads in the UK could be like this, but there just isn't enough space.