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My point was that someone previously eluded that I have no idea what it's like to be a cyclist. I was correcting this thought.
I was also offering that I regularly see cyclists barely giving car drivers - or even pedestrians - more than a passing thought especially on London's roads.
And you're right, it doesn't matter what I do, or say... the law is on the law of the cyclist always which means you can act with impunity. This is why every single cyclist, as soon as they're out on the road, behaves in a manner I wouldn't even expect in a children's playground. Then they get all butthurt when they do themselves an injury or a car driver reacts in a manner such as this instead of taking their lesson from that cyclist like a good little boy and maybe begging forgiveness!
point proven0 -
Ah there it goes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmos3R-Rigg
He causes wilful damage to another car knowing that although this is criminal damage, there's nobody who can identify him for a prosecution, despite being the one undertaking traffic!
Oh and he has another video on a "stupid woman". Lordy, I do love misogyny!0 -
Ah there it goes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmos3R-Rigg
He causes wilful damage to another car knowing that although this is criminal damage, there's nobody who can identify him for a prosecution, despite being the one undertaking traffic!
Oh and he has another video on a "stupid woman". Lordy, I do love misogyny!
What's the point of this? I could post dozens of Youtube videos of stupid car drivers causing damage and getting away with it. What point does it make?0 -
What's the point of this? I could post dozens of Youtube videos of stupid car drivers causing damage and getting away with it. What point does it make?
Because it enforces the original post - a self righteous cyclist recording a video criticising another road user whilst simultaneously riding like an idiot!
When traffic started moving the cyclist should have established a place in the traffic0 -
Youtube video 1.46. It looks like a man to me but you will probably see Mother Tereser.The cyclist wasn't shouting or aggressive at the first set of lights. He was polite
No, his tone I found to be antagonistic! His rising inflexion is clearly an attempt to goad the driver! The cyclist was obviously factually correct in his statement, but he could easily have just not said or done anything. The fact is, he purposely went out of his way to lecture the driver in a fairly condescending tone I found! "Cycle area, This is a cycle area", said twice. The second time quieter than the first. He was calm and polite!
The Audi driver was not blocking his passage on the road. Correctly or not, Not. the move was clearly an attempt to prepare to overtake the cyclists amassing in the cycle area. Nobody likes being stuck behind cyclists riding five-abreast giving no heed to car drivers who wish to overtake. I know this, you know this, every one of those cyclists knows this and the Audi driver knew this. They're not riding five abreast, they're waiting correctly at a stop line. When they move away they ride in single file and move into the bus lane.
Not going to argue the legalities here, but that's what happened. And really who would it have hurt?
The cyclist was clearly trying to engage the driver in a conversation he didn't want to have and did so in an antagonistic way! Which wasn't antagonistic. It was polite.
The fact is, the cyclist became EVEN MORE enraged You need to become enraged before becoming EVEN MORE enraged, which he wasn't when the Audi driver drove off before the cyclist could deliver the piece of his mind he apparently deserved. I don't hear or see the car driver doing anything other than driving when the lights was in his favor and doing so quickly so as to evade this confrontation! I do however clearly hear the cyclist ranting as the Audi drives off into the distance and cycling like crazy to catch up with him!
We know because the end of the video clearly shows a man driving
I don't see this. Care to point out a time index? I see a man at the end who clearly re-enters the car using a rear door. This says to me he's a passenger! Unless those Audi are made so you drive from the rear seat... not something I remember seeing as an option on the Audi price list.
Two accounts of threatening behavior right there.One account of offensive verbal abuse
So we agree - two counts of threatening behavior, one of which was offensive verbal abuse. No, just one account of offensive verbal abuse
And we have no way of knowing if the cyclist then made contact with the car and no reason to suggest he did
As a cyclist yourself, you well know that cyclists do enjoy inflicting damage on cars knowing full well they will get away with it especially in order to keep the car driving public in line! I've had conversations with other cyclists where they do just that! If they believe a car driver has wronged them, a "quick scratch on the side with a key does the world of good". And please, don't tell me you haven't heard the same damn thing. I've never been involved in damaging cars or met anyone who stated they do this. Maybe you should keep better company
Of course, nothing to suggest that the cyclist did so in this case, but as he was shouting at the window I could believe that he had certainly lost his temper for no reason and was being controlled by his emotions.
IMO, he deserved the smacking out he got!
He wasn't provoked. The shouting was directed at the driver. He was a back seat passenger. Unless he was dictating how the driver drove, it was none of his business
I'm sorry that's crap! If someone was screaming and shouting at your wife, son, daughter, whatever, would you pleasantly sit in the back of the car and tell them afterwards "Sorry you got your !!! handed to you and sorry that the angry man smacking at the window shouting at you obviously scared you. But you see unfortunately it was none of my business!"
If you're going to say that yes you would then you really suck as a person! I would get involved if needed. I wouldn't immediately jump out of a car and attack someone.
I think it's more than that. Cyclists gang up on motorists full stop! For no other reason than they can and the law is always on their side! You know those managers at work who really shouldn't be managers because the power goes to their heads? Cyclists!0 -
Fair enough, it's a man driving. But even so, you still see NOTHING at all wrong with the cyclist's behavior?
Now who's suiting their own agenda?0
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