I think Gaz came out ok, could have been worse, I am sure it could have been a lot better. I felt some empathy with Gaz and his actions leading up to the confrontation with the Silver Cab, he had witnessed the close passes and I felt his cycling post viewing the Cab nearly clip the two cyclists in the cycle lane showed he was a bit angry even before the Cab did the same to him. Part of his reaction after he was close passed was due to the overall shoot driving by the Cab prior to his own (predictable?) close pass.
Bit out of his depth when the Cabby leapt out though and felt the hand clapping was a sign of relief! My advice remains, either leap on the pavement and cycle the opposite direction or leap off your bike to stand your ground. Straddled over your top tube in the kerb is not where you want to be with a fast approaching angry face!
The main danger on the streets of London for me would be the ability to constantly catch up with the close passers and cut up merchants.
I felt quite sorry for TrafficDroid in the end clearly the accident 3 years ago is constantly in his mind when he is on his bike, explains quite a bit about his strange wanna be Policeman behaviour, almost wears it like invisable armour.
Did no one else find it ironic the copper on a bike with no blue lights no siren leaping across oncoming traffic in "pursuit" of a motorbike? What would have happend to the poor sod in the white car if he had wiped him out? What was the motorbike doing, I am no criminal in waiting but pretty sure I could have out run a Hybrid.
Thought it was brillant that that mother that has saved lives, hope her onward campaign is just as successful.
One final point, much the same as the Croydon Tram lady shown on phone cam made people think twice about public outbursts, I rather hope the cycle cammers are in motorists minds before they cut a cyclist up or leap out of their car in the future.
