Cyclist drops his bike right in front of me

[marzjennings]

Classic crossed wheels. Rider behind getting too close and getting their front wheel overlapping with rider in front's rear wheel. Bit of wobble, contact and the rider behind is down.

 

[arghill]

The gap is designed to allow cyclists to pass the bus whilst it is stationary and without having to change lanes.
The buses down here are very good, this road carries a serious amount of cyclists ( upto 60 waiting at lights at peak times).
Pretty rare for a pedestrian to step out in front of a bus. First of all passengers get off the bus towards the rear and anyone crossing would be silly to do so in front of a large object that will soon be moving towards them.

Interesting. Sixty waiting at lights sounds awesome to me - safety in numbers (assuming they don't do what the chap in your video did lol)

 

[Cyclopathic]

I concur, what a tit. Trying show off and ends up looking like a nob, he didn't even do a rolley polley as required.

What's a "rolley polley"? Should I know how to do one? How do I do one? Why would I need to do one? Can I eat it? Is there jam involved?

 

[SomethingLikeThat]

b) pedestrians coming out from behind the bus.

I suppose that is a potential issue but you'd have to be mad to try and cross a road like that without being at a crossing or something.

 

[Cyclopathic]

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As entertaining and excruciating as that was I get the feeling it's not the "rolly polly" (rolly rolly polly) in question. I'm pretty sure that if did that routine after falling off my bike that I'd be carted off to the funny farm in short order. Good find though.

 

[DWiggy]

Who's got a bottle of urine?

 

[glenn forger]

Who's got a bottle of urine?

As I was reading about the Cavendish incident on The Mail website I was worried the comments would include anti-cyclist vitriol and was relieved when good old-fashioned racism took dominance:

Typical filthy French, who walks around with a bottle of urine!?"

Playing on that old xenophobic chestnut of French people, err, walking round with bottles of urine. No, sorry, you've lost me.

 

[Hip Priest]

Playing on that old xenophobic chestnut of French people, err, walking round with bottles of urine. No, sorry, you've lost me.

Y'know. Riding a bicycle, stripy top, beret, string of onions round the neck, bidon full of wee.

 

[Leodis]

Bit old but still a giggle...

Yep we are a nation of bigots and racists, no other country in the world labels people..

 

[ianrauk]

Reminds me of the time on a Southend FNRttC a few years back. Some lovely East End London type thought it would be fun to throw a bottle of urine over the passing peleton. He was lucky he did a runner.

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Anyone else spot the cyclist almost colliding with the scooter at the start?

 

[gaz]

Anyone else spot the cycling almost colliding with the scooter at the start?

Aye, they were having a discussion over something that happened previously ( i didn't see, it was behind me ), both obviously distracted and didn't see the bus coming up.

 

[Bman]

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