Warning: driving licence revoked for no reason!

Flyboy152

Strider590 wrote: »

Well just to let you know, you really are imagining things.... Perhaps it's the effect of the tree shadows you see on the ground, but at that angle headlights would make those reflectors look like actual lights. There's another video where I do flash my lights and you can see this effect very clearly.

In that situation it would be pointless as the guy probably would not have seen it. I would have used the horn instead to "warn him of my presence", but the initial offence wasn't that bad, it was his actions afterwards which are "debatable".





Mumps

Erm... What are you talking about speeding drivers for? I was talking about driving at the speed limits and the danger posed by those who drive too slowly and cause other drivers to lose their patience (see the dog analogy).
I mean for example, if a HGV overtakes you (not YOU), followed by a learner driver and then a procession of other drivers all leaning on their horns..... Your doing something wrong. This surely cannot be denied??

Are you going to post the footage of you passing the cyclist?

Strider590

You clearly assume I have the storage space to keep large video files for no reason at all.... Once cut and edited down to 25mb(ish), the originals are disposed of.

One 30 min journey, is over 4GB of data.

The video was not cut at that point because of the cyclist.

s_b

Strider590 wrote: »

One 30 min journey, is over 4GB of data.

buy a more modern recorder then,i can get 1 hour on 1gb on mine

Flyboy152

Strider590 wrote: »

You clearly assume I have the storage space to keep large video files for no reason at all.... Once cut and edited down to 25mb(ish), the originals are disposed of.

One 30 min journey, is over 4GB of data.

Rather convenient, wouldn't you say.

skiddlydiddly

Strider was a bit close to that Focus but when he passed it he did so quickly and gave it plenty of room which also gave him a good view of what was coming.After the bend the road was plenty wide enough for 2 vehicles and a bike.Yes he could have eased off and passed it once the oncoming car was gone but it wasn't really necessary on such a wide road.

Slowing down too much behind the bike could have also created its own problems.

Woody._2

Strider590 wrote: »

The video was [STRIKE]not[/STRIKE] cut at that point because of the cyclist.

Fixed that one for you.;)

Flyboy152

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

Strider was a bit close to that Focus but when he passed it he did so quickly and gave it plenty of room which also gave him a good view of what was coming.After the bend the road was plenty wide enough for 2 vehicles and a bike.Yes he could have eased off and passed it once the oncoming car was gone but it wasn't really necessary on such a wide road.

Although the road was wide enough for two cars to pass in opposite directions, I would argue that the apparent speed gave rise for considered caution. Add to that the additional risk of the cyclist (the highway code recommends giving as much room to a cyclist as you would another car), it made the manoeuvre extremely foolhardy, to say the least.

Slowing down too much behind the bike could have also created its own problems.

How so?

skiddlydiddly

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Although the road was wide enough for two cars to pass in opposite directions, I would argue that the apparent speed gave rise for considered caution. Add to that the additional risk of the cyclist (the highway code recommends giving as much room to a cyclist as you would another car), it made the manoeuvre extremely foolhardy, to say the least.



How so?

The car coming towards him looked around 1m inside the wide line to me and still had a decent gap to the curb.Room enough there for strider to give a good gap passing the bike.Personally I'd have just eased off the throttle when straightening out of the bend and the other car would have been passed before getting to the bike but I don't think he's done anything wrong here really.

Slowing too much for the bike rather than passing it could have ended up with him not having the speed to get past it before any other vehicles coming the other way into what looks like the brow of a hill or the start of a bend(hard to tell exactly form that footage).Bike-car congas aren't something I'd like to be in as a cyclist.Better to keep it all smooth and flowing than stop start.

Have driven back from the coast today and had a couple of simialr situations.Nice wide country road with a cyclist in front of me, car coming the other way but plenty of room to get past without a change of speed.Car behind followed me but the Merc Sprinter behind him chose to slow down to a crawl, tailgate then sharply overtake and cut back in again.Personally I'd rather be overtaken how I did it than the van.

Hammyman

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

It would though be illegal and all the excuses in the world would cut no mustard if the Police were having a bad night.

And? It was claimed it was dangerous and someone saying it was OK should hand their licence back, not whether it was legal or not.

Speed does not kill. Inappropriate speed does.

Strider590

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Although the road was wide enough for two cars to pass in opposite directions, I would argue that the apparent speed gave rise for considered caution. Add to that the additional risk of the cyclist (the highway code recommends giving as much room to a cyclist as you would another car), it made the manoeuvre extremely foolhardy, to say the least.

What part of this did you not read?

Strider590 wrote: »

The road is 7.3 metres wide at that point, my car is a wider than average at 1.8 metres wide (inc wing mirrors). You could drive 4 of my car side by side down that road = road width is more than adequate to accommodate 2 cars and a cyclist.

In fact at 3.5 metres wide (each), you could drive two Challenger II tanks down that road without touching the grass verge.

= Case closed....