OK. Which of you lot was it ?

[Alan Frame]

http://www.aol.co.uk/video/cyclist-regrets-bus-encounter/517886489/

Should true up nicely.

 

[Hill Wimp]

 

[Amack]

nice bike! I think the bus driver did him a favour

 

[Frood42]

I like the fact you started this in the commuting section

Definite improvement for the bike, and I feel more sorry for the bus driver than I do the cyclist in this clip, but why was the cyclist taking the actions he was I wonder..?

 

[Misusawa]

That was quite amusing, but it wasn't really nice of him to hold up the bus either!

 

[Alan Frame]

I like the fact you started this in the commuting section

Definite improvement for the bike, and I feel more sorry for the bus driver than I do the cyclist in this clip, but why was the cyclist taking the actions he was I wonder..?

Just wanted to illustrate that you can take "taking primary" a bit too far.

Whatever caused this confrontation, I'm sure the cyclist might now see the foolishness of arguing with a bus.

 

[Maylian]

brilliant, definitely did a favour for the cyclist.

 

[s7ephanie]

cyslist got what he deserved !!! rsole

 

[J.Primus]

How do you know what the circumstances are?

Well you can see in the video it's not about causing a slight inconvenience, that's someone just purposefully making an obstruction. No different to if I was on foot and stood in front of your bike and kept moving to make sure you couldn't get past.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Well you can see in the video it's not about causing a slight inconvenience, that's someone just purposefully making an obstruction. No different to if I was on foot and stood in front of your bike and kept moving to make sure you couldn't get past.

Also illegal according to Australian road rules, don't know about UK rules, though.

 

[BentMikey]

Reg has the right of it. I suspect we were seeing the result of something earlier caused by the bus driver. Still, stupid thing to do by the cyclist, and much worse still by the bus driver on the clip.

 

[stowie]

The cyclist is being an idiot. But Reg is right - the bus driver is in control of tonnes of metal and should not be hitting vulnerable road users. Had the driver simply stopped the bus and waited I am betting the cyclist would have got bored very quickly and gone away.

 

[J.Primus]

Can you? How do you know what went on before? Are you clairvoyant perchance?

I am hugely clairvoyant as it happens. I can see a bizarre looking stranger with all his original teeth coming into your life in the next week. Also beware of marmosets during September.

Anyway my clairvoyance isn't required as what happened before isn't really relevant. What he was doing was dangerous and stupid regardless of the lead up. I thought it was generally accepted in this forum that prior events don't give you the right to use your vehicle in a dangerous manner to get your own back?

 

[Boris Bajic]

How was the man on the bike endangering the bus?

I don't think he was endangering it at all.

Many of us have done silly, retaliatory things like this, in the certain knowledge that it will annoy the person it's aimed at and there's little they can do about it. I did such things in my youth. I was lucky and always got away with it. I imagine the cyclist is young and is certain he will too.

Nobody was hurt, so we may feel we can discuss a potentially dangerous situatuion with some levity.

If we do allow some levity into our observations, we might think this: Perhaps the cyclist was annoyd or outraged by some earlier move by the bus driver. Perhaps he thought he'd teach him a lesson and get his blood pressure up a little. Perhaps he thought it was a win/win, as the bus driver could do nothing back to him - rather like making faces at a bigger boy while hiding behind teacher. The collapse of that hubris-rich card house of absolute certainty and that daft, juvenile belief that one has the right to impose one's own justice is quite fun to watch... if that is what it was. Perhaps it was not.

Perhaps the cyclist had some impairment or had a wasp up his nose or was distracted by a badger fighting a wolf. But if we had to bet, I think we'd all bet that he was ramping up some real or imagined personal dispute with the bus driver. And he lost that battle.

If the bus driver is prosecuted or disciplined by his employer, the cyclist might think his antics worth it and that the battle was lost but the war was won. Then he might grow up.

 

[Iain M Norman]

We can't see enough to judge the situation. The traffic looks like it's moving quite slow. For all we know the cyclist is leaving a car-length or so between him and the car off camera, he may just be leaving himself that space and doing that "trying not to put your foot down" business. We've all left that car length before I'm sure, and we know how it pisses some people off that there's space in front of you that they could be using.

On the other side of the coin, we don't know how well the bus driver can see from where he is, or what he can see.

And what's with all this about improving the bike? A bikes a bike, lets rejoice in the things we share please.