Should magnatom sell his camera?

[magnatom]

It's a shame you didn't catch up with any slower moving cars. It would have been interesting to see if they moved over....

 

[Cab]

Not sure if it was your video, the one I'm talking about showed another cyclist safely passing a car in exactly the same strip of road which was apparently not wide enough for Mr "the sign says i've got priority so you must stop no matter how much space there actually is".

That another cyclist in front chose to take a risk that I may not choose to take, and he gets away with it, does not make it the correct decision. Sign says give way to oncoming traffic in a location which does not have, in my view, sufficient space to pass with a margin of error, then thats what the oncoming traffic has to do. Its my call, not the other guys, and if its safer to stop the traffic and then go around then thats the correct decision.

Could well have been one of mine; you're too passive if you believe that because someone else is in the gutter you should be too.

I'm by no means a passive cyclist, but there's a line between cycling in a manner that maintains your safety and taking unnecessary road positions just because we can. The driving standards in this country can be shocking, but too many cyclists hide behind this and use it as an excuse to 'put drivers in their place' when the drivers done very little wrong.

It isn't just because you can, its because its the safer location to be in. If that inconveniences someone else because they'd rather break the law than grant you safe space then thats their lookout. You really are a passive cyclist if you believe otherwise.

 

[Cab]

yes, the very one. I don't think that debate needs re-opening. it's pretty much summed up by the cyclist in front getting through with a clear, safe gap and the choice the cyclist makes a few seconds before the incident to go through a far smaller gap between a bus and a moving lorry.

Stuff and nonsesense, as I explained in that thread. IF you want to reopen that debate then do so, don't make pathetic hit and run 'I'm right you're wrong' comments elsewhere.

 

[magnatom]

Having watched that vid, the gap at the start between the bus and 7.5 tonner is wider then the TCM.

I think adunn01 has a point cab.

Hey! This is a grump about magnatom thread. Don't steal my thunder cab!

 

[Cab]

Having watched that vid, the gap at the start between the bus and 7.5 tonner is wider then the TCM.

I think adunn01 has a point cab.

He doesn't; feel free to open the ther discussion up and I'll correct you.

 

[Origamist]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[thomas]

My point is the gap at the start that you ride through is wider then the gap at the TCM.

I kind of agree on this one...even with Lee . You seemed to be making more of a point out of something than need be. I know some of those signs are in places where there isn't enough room. Once I was cycling, my right of way and I had given way to about 5 cars already...I go, then another car comes to the junction and doesn't wait for me to finish, start to go, then realises there isn't enough room so try moving left - scrapes the side of his lovely jag on a high kerb - his fault though, he should of just waited.

 

[adunn01]

Stuff and nonsesense, as I explained in that thread. IF you want to reopen that debate then do so, don't make pathetic hit and run 'I'm right you're wrong' comments elsewhere.

hit and run comments? where'd I run to? I thought I'd backed up my comments pretty well, the fact that I get a response like "if you don't agree with me you're a passive cyclist" pretty much sum up how any debate is going to head here!

 

[adunn01]

Why not?

i meant to be seen as a new troll on the scene. whether or not that reputation is deserved. i reckon yours might be!

 

[Cab]

My point is ...

...utterly out of place here. Go back to the other thread and open the discussion up, if you like.

 

[Cab]

hit and run comments? where'd I run to? I thought I'd backed up my comments pretty well, the fact that I get a response like "if you don't agree with me you're a passive cyclist" pretty much sum up how any debate is going to head here!

Here, you said:

yes, the very one. I don't think that debate needs re-opening.

Before doing precisely that. If you want to criticise my cycling then do so in a thread where I've posted and defended my riding, rather than taking a quick swipe elsewhere. Your attitude both to my riding and indeed to this discussion is, to be blunt, lacking.

 

[Cab]

Hey! This is a grump about magnatom thread. Don't steal my thunder cab!

Seems like they'll grump about nigh on anything, given the chance

 

[tdr1nka]

Hey! This is a grump about magnatom thread. Don't steal my thunder cab!

Another close overtake by a cab?

 

[magnatom]

i meant to be seen as a new troll on the scene. whether or not that reputation is deserved. i reckon yours might be!

Actually, for a while I was probably the one shouting troll the loudest at Lee. I think he has settled down a bit and has made some good posts recently.

I remove my troll label from Lee

(I'm sure this post will come across as condescending but it isn't meant that way, honest! )

 

[silverbow]

I ask myself are Mags videos an extension of Big Brother or is he the new Steve Erwin?

If you are the new Big Brother then I'm ashamed of myself for taking an interest. However if you are the new Steve Erwin can you ask Mrs Mags to put any videos of you bouncing down the road on You Tube!!! We the public like a bit of really bad news.

I would like to say Mags, I pray no harm comes your way though - Glasgow looks somewhat more cycle unfriendly than Woodbridge.