Rule no. 1

[BentMikey]

Just came across this video:


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gbh8VSaivE


Rule No. 1 fail. LOLOL!

 

[summerdays]

What is that camera mounted on - its very high up!

 

[BentMikey]

I assume the side of his helmet - it's not me btw.

 

[HobbesChoice]

Don't you love it when that happens?

 

[Origamist]

I thought Jon was going to get doored.

He posts on CC occasionally (I recall the vid of the nasty HGV overtake) and I suspect he will make an appearance.

 

[Browser]

I know it's accepted practice amongst more traffic-bound commuters, but I can't suppress a shudder when I see you guys filtering on the right of traffic. I think it's (a) my innate conservatism caused by years of cycling thinking as if I were in a car, ( my having been fetched off my Kwack GT550 once whilst doing this very thing and (c) the usual inability of motorists to check their mirrors before doing anythin, let alone moving along in a stream of other cars!
It is, however, astonishing how many motorists think you should be sculling along in the gutter and not object to them passing you at fag-paper-thickness clearance

 

[BentMikey]

Overtaking is mostly safer than undertaking, assuming it's safe to be passing at all. "Undertaking leads to the undertakers" is the saying.

 

[hackbike 666]

What is the problem here...You must know exactly how the average moton is going to behave by now....So now amount of pointing and all that crap is going to change it.

 

[Cab]

Was that an airzound?

 

[Origamist]

Was that an airzound?

Yes.

 

[thomas]

I used to get this kind a thing a lot on my commute. People would overtake into stationary traffic...usually making me slow down to get around them.

Overtaking is mostly safer than undertaking, assuming it's safe to be passing at all. "Undertaking leads to the undertakers" is the saying.

Yep. If there is plenty of room on the inside, and none on the outside I will...but by and large your more visible in the middle. IMO more motorists exect to see a motorcycle on their right hand side, than they would check their left hand side for a cyclist.

Was that an airzound?

Yep! Nicely pumped up by the sound of it

 

[jonredhornet]

Heh, gotta admit this made me chuckle after it happened. You should have seen the look he gave me when he passed on my right as well.

Regarding filtering, I always pass on the right as it's classed as an overtaking manoeuvre. Always weary around junctions though for obvious reasons, and looking for people who might suddenly U turn as they're bored of waiting. I've followed Police motorbikes before filtering like this, but I was on a motorbike myself at the time. I also had to filter as this line of traffic went on for a good while after the next t junction.

 

[2Loose]

I really do hope that he felt like a fool after you did the 'and that got you where?' beep and point. I see this kind of thing a lot, particularly when cars underestimate your speed, but that was a cracking example of its kind.

 

[Weegie]

OK, seriously - please educate a beginner cyclist as to what the problem was here, apart from the little social exchange of a dirty look + some beeping & waving. I've watched the video several times, and don't get it.

It's legal for the driver to overtake, he/she left lots of space while doing so, and no-one was placed in a dangerous position as far as I can see. OK, it ultimately didn't get the driver very far, but so long as it wasn't a dangerous move by the driver, so what?

Had this happened to me, I honestly don't think I would have been bothered, and I certainly wouldn't have started beeping & gesticulating.

 

[hackbike 666]

Common place isn't it?

Human nature must rush up to the traffic jam/traffic lights.

I have motorists pootle on behind me and I don't feel comfortable.Some of the time I find it's because they are on a mobile telephone.