Plus the wider the field of view of a camera the further away things appear to be, that is why it is always helpful to have a part of the bike in shot.
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It seems the best time to do it is after a visit to the pub/off licence and consumption of too much intoxicating liquor
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So, despite having 'better things to do', he carries on...
Him:
What makes me laugh is what a hypocrite you complaining about other people breaking the rules of the road but you are clearly breaking them yourself by running that first amber light as shown in your video. Here is the wording in the Highway Code. AMBER means ‘Stop’ at the stop line. You may go on only if the AMBER appears after you have crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to pull up might cause an accident.
Me:
Wow, all these better things you have to do seems to consist of continuing this conversation. :-)
I totally agree on the amber light issue, I misjudged it and was totally wrong in going through the first, which is why I stopped at the next.
However, I have NEVER gone through a red and the main issue here is the phone use, not the RLJ'ing.
Here's another really good conversation 
Him:
Why can't you camera twats leave the good old london cabbies alone? Whenever a person anywhere in the world thinks of Great Britain and London, they think of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Double Decker Buses and The good old London CABBIE. The last thing they think of is stupid pricks on pushbikes, crying and whinging every time they get overtaken. You have let yourself down and your family. Go and ride the wrong way up the M6!
Me:
Well... I don't know if I'm 'crying and whinging' but anyway that's a wonderfully simplistic view you have there :-)
I'd love it if everyone thought of London as those lovely monuments rather than some dead or injured cyclists under the wheel of a bad driver. I just hope that neither you or anyone you care about is ever a victim of such people matey.
Thanks for going to the trouble of posting abuse by the way, feel better now? :-)
Him:
You're more than welcome.
BTW no one cares about cyclists end of the day they shouldn't be on the road. Roads are for vehicles with engines.
Ps No offence.
Me:
No offence taken Trixie :-)
I would take issue of the 'vehicles with engines' comment though. So, besides cycles, you would maintain that horses and horse drawn vehicles should not be allowed on the roads - so, no more royal processions etc? And no people on the road, so no more road races, like Marathons? Awww :-(
Also, the romans started building roads in the UK c. 43 AD, some 1,836 years prior to Karl Benz patenting the engine for the first modern automobile in 1879.
Him:
Why can't you camera twats leave the good old london cabbies alone? Whenever a person anywhere in the world thinks of Great Britain and London, they think of Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, Double Decker Buses and The good old London CABBIE. The last thing they think of is stupid pricks on pushbikes, crying and whinging every time they get overtaken. You have let yourself down and your family. Go and ride the wrong way up the M6!
Me:
Well... I don't know if I'm 'crying and whinging' but anyway that's a wonderfully simplistic view you have there :-)
I'd love it if everyone thought of London as those lovely monuments rather than some dead or injured cyclists under the wheel of a bad driver. I just hope that neither you or anyone you care about is ever a victim of such people matey.
Thanks for going to the trouble of posting abuse by the way, feel better now? :-)
Him:
You're more than welcome.
BTW no one cares about cyclists end of the day they shouldn't be on the road. Roads are for vehicles with engines.
Ps No offence.
Me:
No offence taken Trixie :-)
I would take issue of the 'vehicles with engines' comment though. So, besides cycles, you would maintain that horses and horse drawn vehicles should not be allowed on the roads - so, no more royal processions etc? And no people on the road, so no more road races, like Marathons? Awww :-(
Also, the romans started building roads in the UK c. 43 AD, some 1,836 years prior to Karl Benz patenting the engine for the first modern automobile in 1879.
Miquel In De Rain
No Longer Posting
An Australian bloke im riding with out here had this on his shirt.I may put it in my videos when yet another complete knobbler passes me too close again.
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
- Location
- Prestatyn, North Wales
I have noticed that. I think some passes are close when they happen but upon inspecting the video, realise that they are too bad.
This explains it perfectly
It's a 125 degree field of vision which isn't as much as the 175 degree view you get with it set to 720p (I run at 1080p) but it does make it look further away. The trailer was probably about 2 foot away when he drifted back. The fact it's a trailer makes it worse - I could tolerate a car doing that but a 40t HGV is far too big to be that close.On some of my older videos they're recorded at 720p which makes them look like i'm a moaner for nothing when in fact they were a lot closer than it appears.
dodd82
Well-Known Member
Fair enough.
I ride through a rather narrow road, and there's so many close passes - I think it's just one of those things I have to accept.
Put it this way, it's never going to change and I can't ride primary position realistically, so there's no point in me getting upset about it!
I ride through a rather narrow road, and there's so many close passes - I think it's just one of those things I have to accept.
Put it this way, it's never going to change and I can't ride primary position realistically, so there's no point in me getting upset about it!
Not really, riding primary on a road like that just antagonises drivers and then you get an angry close pass rather than a close pass.
theFire
Veteran
- Location
- Chessington
Gotta laugh at comments like this....
"why don't you be a real man and learn to drive and buy a farking car instead of riding around on a bicycle like a little bitch. what kind of grown man rides a bike to get to and from his destination. you're a joke, a poor bastard that can't afford a car. grow a pair of balls why don't you. there are 17 year old kids driving cars with more money and self respect than you."
"why don't you be a real man and learn to drive and buy a farking car instead of riding around on a bicycle like a little bitch. what kind of grown man rides a bike to get to and from his destination. you're a joke, a poor bastard that can't afford a car. grow a pair of balls why don't you. there are 17 year old kids driving cars with more money and self respect than you."
Had one of these at work... new guy who had been "held up" by a cyclist on the 10 mph access road, and tarted on the "too poor to drive" claims
Then someone pointed out that the majority of cyclists in our department are the managers and consultants, earning far more than him, and then someone else asked if he had ever seen my bikes..... I was heart broken to point out that 5 of them are of greater value than the car he drives in!
He still rants and moans occasionally, but never in my presence!
kedab
Veteran
- Location
- nr cambridge
i had this a while ago when cut up on a RAB by some lad on a scooter...it was so battered (and probably illegal) that it couldn't have been worth more than a couple of hundred quid at most - the kit i wear cost more than that, my bike didn't even come into it
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
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- 'ampsheeeer
This sad little girl, with limited abilities in grammar and boundaries has been trolling a number of riders online. 187premises has even has some mouth off her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsudy_nYqoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsudy_nYqoE
Sore Thumb
Guru
I have just had my cherry popped on my new you tube channel. I have just had my very first anti-cyclist comment. Not offensive but still a bit anti cyclist though.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uma21nx7gY&feature=plcp
"He didn't pull out on you. He used the other lane. I can't see your problem. And aswell if he had of waited for you to pass, he would have been stuck behind you and getting stuck behind a bike is a fate worse than death!"
Can anyone suggest a witty response to this please?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uma21nx7gY&feature=plcp
"He didn't pull out on you. He used the other lane. I can't see your problem. And aswell if he had of waited for you to pass, he would have been stuck behind you and getting stuck behind a bike is a fate worse than death!"
Can anyone suggest a witty response to this please?
downfader
extimus uero philosophus
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- 'ampsheeeer