Boring and pointless - just like me

[benb]

Had quite a few vids to upload, but just thought I'd share this nearly SMIDSY with you.
-1 for the initial pull out
+1 for correcting her mistake

At least she waved her apology and gave me a sheepish smile.

[media]
]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzSQdGwslLs[/media]

 

[goody]

You were moving!

 

[akb]

Video error...?

 

[benb]

You were moving!

I think it just looks faster than most cameras, because I have it mounted on the bars rather than a helmet.
According to Endomondo I was going at roughly 14mph.

 

[benb]

Video error...?

In what way? What happens?

 

[Camgreen]

To be honest barely a "nearly". The car has nosed out, glanced across, seen you .... which is why they've reversed back .... all before you were anywhere need close to the junction. Mountain out of a mole hill moment I'd say.

 

[smokeysmoo]

To be honest barely a "nearly". The car has nosed out, glanced across, seen you .... which is why they've reversed back .... all before you were anywhere need close to the junction. Mountain out of a mole hill moment I'd say.

+1 you both had all the time in the world to react.

 

[BentMikey]

I quite often get drivers doing this - it's nice when they pull back and I'll always try to give a thank you. To me it's an example of a minor mistake, such as we all make from time to time, not usually worth uploading.

 

[benb]

To be honest barely a "nearly". The car has nosed out, glanced across, seen you .... which is why they've reversed back .... all before you were anywhere need close to the junction. Mountain out of a mole hill moment I'd say.

I never said it was a big deal, just wanted to share what turned out to be a positive "incident" rather than the usual negative ones.

But hey, sorry if I wasted 20 seconds of your precious internet browsing time. ;-)

 

[BlackPanther]

I wonder if she checked her mirror to ensure there wasn't a cyclist behind her before she reversed?

I've said it a thousand times, if someone makes a mistake and holds there hand up in apology it diffuses most situations. It's the loons that nearly take you out and then give you the finger that sets me kicking off.

 

[400bhp]

Change the thread title. Stuff like this isn't a good reflection on cyclists.

Nothing in it.

 

[Buddfox]

Forgive me if this seems a little rude, but this must be the biggest waste of time cycling video I've seen on this site (or Youtube). Can we delete the thread for being completely pointless? I know it's only 20 seconds (and I've spent longer typing this reply), but if you hadn't explained in the text what was going on, I doubt I'd have even noticed it. As 400bhp says, showing this (as if there's something to comment on) just reinforces the argument that camera users are desperately looking for any footage they can use to highlight what they think is poor driving. It's not even a -1 for the driver pulling out, you were miles away when she did and I think she could even be forgiven for that.

 

[leemo]

Yawn

 

[Hip Priest]

The OP was just highlighting an example of a motorist correcting a mistake and apologising. Nothing wrong with that at all.

 

[BentMikey]

The OP was just highlighting an example of a motorist correcting a mistake and apologising. Nothing wrong with that at all.

+1, I thought it was interesting. Perhaps the title of the topic wasn't quite right, but still.