Blimey, this one has moved on.
Ok, lets recap. I filtered. This is something I do on a regular basis in exactly the same way that I did on this video. I can think of only two occasions over the last 2 years 9 months where I have had any hassle involving this. Once where a taxi driver threatened to knock me off my bike, and on this occasion. I commute 5 days a week on very busy roads in a city where cyclists are very much the exception and where I have found over the last few years that a lot of drivers are in fact agressive towards us. Over that 33 month period I have placed online 47 videos of incidents (not all are public). Of these 20 of these (I counted) are not incidents involving me as such, but videos of guys weeing in the street, videos of pavement cyclists, videos of cycling through the clyde tunnel, videos of cars going through red lights etc. So over a period of 33 months I have had 27 incidents.
So a rough back of the envelope calculation suggests that I have cycled on approximately (and I am being conservative here) 920 days to and from work. That suggests that I have an incident rate (some of which are actually fairly minor) of (in terms of days) of just under 3%.
So it would appear that suggestions that I am always having incidents are far off the mark! People suggesting that they do not have incidents could be for a number of reasons. Maybe they are incredibly lucky and don't have incidents. Maybe they do have them, but 10 minutes later forget them. I know this happens because I sometimes look back at films and see things that I forgot happened. Memory is a funny thing (an area that I research). Or maybe, and I've seen this happen (see here,
View: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KaVHUrSvx-o
) some people are oblivious to the dangers surrounding them.
I have stated exactly why I take the primary position here. I travel close to and sometimes faster than the prevaling traffic. I am traffic. I want to be seen and to discourage poor overtaking. What I can't post is the amount of times that I have prevented bad overtaking etc. I know that I have prevented daft manouvers on numerous occasions. My cycling isn't perfect, but I think it generally keeps me safe.
As to the fact that filtering is legal. I think the important question to ask here is, where does it say it is illegal? My knowledge of the law is not the best, but I beleive laws are generally written in the prohibitive sense. So DG show me where it says it is illegal.
I have discussed the fact on here before about me coming across as self righteous online. That is probably because of a number of reasons, one of them being the fact that I have to defend myself against what are sometimes stupid arguments (I am not suggesting that anyone on here is doing that, but have a look on youtube). However, I am certainly not self righteous. How many times have I posted mistakes I have made, how many times have I posted comments suggesting that I need to keep learning, that I am not perfect and that I don't have all the answers. People seem to blank out these comments.
With regards to this particular video I could have edited this just to show the pull off from the lights. I did not, because I wanted to put it into context, realising that some might question the filtering. How could placing your own cycling online and leaving it to public scrutiny be classed as being self righteous! I have changed my cycling because of previous comments on my videos, if I was self righteous would I do that!
Oh bugger this. I'm just grumpy tonight. It never usually gets to me.....
Im off.