I don't want to be a messenger
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You've erroneously posited that the OP has seen it before and is posting it again. It's much more likely the OP had only seen it once and felt like sharing it.
I've seen it countless times as well. However, I don't think the sentiment behind a comment like this will be transmitted via an intuitive web of consciousness to unspecified would-be posters of the future, warding them away from posting the video once again.
More's the pity.
I know what its about, and I'm sure most people here do. They are alleycat races where bike messengers and other riders ride between points in the fastest time possible, in a completely selfish and dangerous fashion, putting their own safety and the safety of other road users around them, including other cyclists, and pedestrians in danger. And they don't give a toss because they think they are cool and hardcore or something, and they overtly hold everyone else around them in utter contempt.
+1
Nicked from Lucas Brunelle's website. It was uploaded in June 2007 before Lucas Brunelle had joined YouTube and three years before he uploaded it to his YouTube channel in June 2010.
gaz
Cycle Camera TV
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Repost of things like this is part of being on a fourn.
Fair enough if it cropped up several times a week.
Indeed, some of his early stuff is not hosted on YouTube. I linked to it because for the non techie it is hard to find
Most but not all. Thankfully the forum attracts new members - I hadn't seen the video until I came on here, and the same will be true next month, and the month after that, for a long time, as new people get into commuting and come onto this forum. Is it really necessary to berate them for posting something which is clearly relevant in a commuting forum and of interest to those who have never seen it? If you've seen it before, there's no need to post an aggressive / rude comment, perhaps just let it go? We're all capable of reaching the conclusion that this is dangerous and by extension stupid.
Sorry, I'm not meaning to have a go at the OP, just expressing my weariness of the regular cycle of this video being posted and the inevitable fallout that occurs afterwards.
Side A: those cyclists are idiots.
Side B: no, those cyclists are awesome, YOU are an idiot.
Just walk on by then. To be honest, much of the content here is repetitions of Q&As or discussions that have been held many times before. If we took that all away there would not be a lot left to talk about.
It's alright. Don't listen to Jezston's whinging.... no one else does.
It does get posted now and again, but it's good to see again. Some cracking (naughty) cycling skills going on there. Though I would have punched out the cyclist if I was the ped that got hit near the end.
abo
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Yeah +1 like I commented on the clip, a small part of me thinks this is awesome, but if they rode like that while I was on a crossing they'd get side backfisted off their bike and wnd up with a busted lip and taco'd wheels.
Sheffield_Tiger
Guru
You know the thing that gets me about this...
There will be managers and bosses sitting in their fancy cars moaning about "bloody cyclists" and complaining about this who use messenger services and would be steaming at the ears if an urgent package was 3 minutes late because of a red light and some roadworks.
There is a demand for this style of riding.
There will be managers and bosses sitting in their fancy cars moaning about "bloody cyclists" and complaining about this who use messenger services and would be steaming at the ears if an urgent package was 3 minutes late because of a red light and some roadworks.
There is a demand for this style of riding.
it's not an alleycat race though is it, it's a one off show off set piece for Brunelle, presumably trying to outdo the NYC one
point proved
