My (almost) run in with the law

[lukesdad]

When you think about it, it is crazy. Why anyone would want to post a clip of their riding on here is beyone me. Life and get, not in that order.

Answer A

To highlight road safety issues

Answer B

To impress CC commutings High Command

Take your pick.

 

[col]

Oi Col, I'll make it easy for you. Do you think the copper would have done the same had it been a car coming down the road at that speed? Yes or no?

Got the vid?

 

[col]

What vid? It was a simple question, only needed a yes or a no.

Now you know your wrong there. Your trying to get me to comment on something that hasnt happened, its a minefield I tell you Now if you had a vid to show me, I would happily have a look and give you my opinion.

 

[GrasB]

Do you carry on as normal when you get a fright of your life?

Oddly enough most people do just with a far heightened level of adrenaline that they're trying to control which makes the more likely to make rash & seeming illogical decisions....

 

[col]

Oddly enough most people do just with a far heightened level of adrenaline that they're trying to control which makes the more likely to make rash & seeming illogical decisions....

Ah so the attempt at a high five with the rozzer is explained in some way then.
So not as normal then.

 

[lukesdad]

It was an exercise in imagination. Still your answers thus far say enough to be honest.

I thought that wasn t allowed.

 

[col]

It was an exercise in imagination. Still your answers thus far say enough to be honest.

Why thank you whats going on ? even frank has been nice to me tonight, paul hasnt though, he wont even answer his accusation he made about me

 

[col]

Desperate times call for desperate measures and I am really trying to understand Col's position here which, I'm sure you will agree, is a pretty desperate thing to attempt.

No one ever got anywhere without putting effort into it

 

[Bicycle]

I haven't really followed this thread, but I watched at the footage. I know a little about how Police motorcyclists are trained, whom they select and the benefit that society as a whole derives from that training.

I think it was a slightly poor piece of riding; the rider won't be proud of it. No-one would be.

It's the sort of thing that happens regularly when I cycle in london (although not involving Police riders).

I'm slightly surprised the footage was posted, but it was. It happened. No-one was hurt. Not paintwork was exchanged.

 

[Dave W]

No one got hurt though, the motorcyclist cut it very fine through either skill or lack of judgement and the cyclist appeared to veer towards the motorcyclist whilst simultaneously remonstrating with arm gestures.

The cyclist didn't need to do anything, the motorcyclist could have waited but didn't with zero consequences. Is it really worth 5 pages of discussion and personal accusations? Really?

 

[col]

No one got hurt though, the motorcyclist cut it very fine through either skill or lack of judgement and the cyclist appeared to veer towards the motorcyclist whilst simultaneously remonstrating with arm gestures.

The cyclist didn't need to do anything, the motorcyclist could have waited but didn't with zero consequences. Is it really worth 5 pages of discussion and personal accusations? Really?

no

 

[BentMikey]

That was a bit more than slightly bad riding by that rozzer, it was rather a close call IMO. It's a fairly wide angle camera, which makes it look further away than in reality, and it looks bad enough even before you take the wide angle lens into consideration.

 

[Bicycle]

Doesn't it make sense that we do whatever we can to make our roads better before someone gets hurt?

Well, that's an interesting notion.

I think you and I might draw the line in different places. Everything we can means 'everything we can'. Many people using that phrase mean 'everything we can, according to my priorities and judgement'.

I do not for a moment suggest that you mean it so, but many do.

That incident lies beneath the threshold of my Givafukkometer and I would take it no further. Others may want to make an issue of incidents that are below the threshold of your Givafukkometer.

Some may say that it makes sense to report every jay-walker, every driver who rolls gently over a solid white STOP line on an empty road in broad daylight, every motorist driving at 42mph in a 40 limit....

I wouldn't. Some might. By writing as I do i might give the impression that I give not one fig about road safety. The opposite is true; I and my whole family cycle and I care a great deal aout it.

But to me that was a non-event, a non-issue, a non-incident.

I quite respect the views of those who think otherwise, but the needle of my Givafukkometer didn't even flicker as I watched the footage.

 

[lukesdad]

Adrian have you had a bang on the head, whats with all this imagination stuff ?

 

[Dave W]

We should tolerate substandard driving on our roads?

I didn't say that did I?

Regardless, whether the driving/riding was substandard is a matter of opinion anyway.