Anyone know this idiot motorcyclist?

[Big Nick]

I've got my hand near my ear, doesn't mean I'm having a conversation.

The cyclist may have been rash, no need to make stuff up.

Get real Glenn, what the hell else was he doing?

 

[YahudaMoon]

Motor biker uploaded the video saying ' I guess I was hungry for views'

Well thats worked lol

Videos here for those who aint seen it


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkO_UoK0jOk#t=47

 

[Roadrider48]

She needs a talking too - she didn't let the cyclist tell his story, kept banging on about the phone. Maybe she did later, I couldn't watch the whole thing or I'd have put a brick through the screen

Agree with your brick idea. At the end the cyclist just pedals off. And the motorbike dick says to her. "Thanks, you've saved me a whole lot of hassle"
They both took advantage of the cyclists soft nature IMHO.

 

[Roadrider48]

Imo the cyclist is a nobber, and the biker is a twat. I come from a family of bikers, and want one my self but this guy just gives decent bikers bad press and then to release the video footage..

Why is the cyclist a knobber?
He had the phone, but he had absolutely no blame regards the crash. It was deliberate by the biker IMHO.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Taking your hand off briefly to indicate a turn is a world away to riding along one handed holding a phone conversation through a busy junction in my opinion.

Zero attention....he's negotiating a hazard (going round cars and through a junction) and not once is seen looking around or to the side to see what traffic is doing around him

I'm not prepared to accept he is without fault just because he's on a bicycle

He was riding steadily in a straight line at a steady pace. The biker made no attempt to use the next available lane to pass him safely as he could have done and, in my view, deliberately hit the cyclist (watch how just prior to impact, he twitches his bars and gives it a handful of revs).

The cyclist's use of the telephone is stupid but does not detract from the fact that the biker was wholly responsible for the collision. The telephone part is a distraction from the true nature of this event and in no way contributed to the outcome. The cop fell for it and you've fallen for it too.

The biker is a coward.

GC

 

[Roadrider48]

Can't see the cyclist wobbling around in the footage I viewed.

There's suggestion on the motorbike forums that he deliberately aimed for the cyclist.

Me neither. He looked to in control of his bike. The phone is a bad idea though.

 

[Big Nick]

The cyclist's use of the telephone is stupid but does not detract from the fact that the biker was wholly responsible for the collision. The telephone part is a distraction from the true nature of this event and in no way contributed to the outcome. The cop fell for it and you've fallen for it too.

The biker is a coward.

GC

I think you'll find I've said twice already the biker caused the collision

 

[Big Nick]

[QUOTE 3091535, member: 30090"]Utter bullshit.

It's a complete irrelevance. On the phone or not the mbike twat ******** should not have done what he done, which was on purpose knock him off his bike, the cyclist being on the phone has absolutely nothing to do it, zilch, nadda, nil, zero. You are even beginning to sound like the rider in the vid.
[/QUOTE]

Eloquent as always and as always instead of accepting someone has a different point of view you start making it personal
Irrespective of the latter collision (which for the third time was the fault of the biker in my view) the cyclist IN MY OPINION was riding without due care for the conditions and road layout

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I think you'll find I've said twice already the biker caused the collision

I think you'll find you also said the cyclist was "generally wobbling" and that you're "not prepared to accept he is without fault". The cyclist was not at fault in the slightest for the collision.

GC

 

[Roadrider48]

And the irony is that the plank filmed and uploaded it himself.

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

I think you'll find you also said the cyclist was "generally wobbling" and that you're "not prepared to accept he is without fault". The cyclist was not at fault in the slightest for the collision.

GC

I agree - personally I wouldn't have been on the phone, and one could argue that his behavior could have distracted him as to what was going on around him, but i fail to see how if the cyclist had not had his phone to his ear he would not have been hit...
Lots of decent bikers out there - but this one seems like a knobber - never even asked if the cyclist was OK. Typical police encounter in my experience as well - listen to everyone else except for the cyclist...

 

[hopless500]

Geez. Me and Mr Hop both have m/bike licences and what that bloke did was deliberate and bloody outrageous, not to mention seriously dangerous

 

[TwickenhamCyclist]

And the irony is that the plank filmed and uploaded it himself.

Kind of shows he thought he was not in the wrong? "You hit me from behind" - "it was from the side actually..." - Bellend...

 

[Big Nick]

Perhaps not in full control of his bicycle is more accurate then

And whilst the biker collided into him the cyclist gave himself no chance to avoid it as he doesn't appear to be looking around to see what other road users are doing.
Numerous other vehicles cut across me each day, I take avoiding action and minimise the chance of it by having both hands on the bars, looking around and by adjusting road position to maximise my safety. If they hit me it wouldn't be my 'fault' but I'd rather they didn't thanks

 

[Big Nick]

[QUOTE 3091559, member: 30090"]OK, how am I making it personal? And how do you think he was riding without due care for the conditions and road layout?[/QUOTE]
The fact you don't know speaks volumes and I've already said