Thoughts on Cycling Mikey

[Alex321]

But he is not obstructing for legitimate users.

So how, exactly, is somebody *legitimately* coming the other way going to get past the obstruction? Of course he is.

But that is irrelevant, since the legislation (as linked above) makes no mention of "legitimate users".
It just says:
"If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence".

It isn't even about him blocking a specific person, it is the fact he is obstructing the free passage.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

So how, exactly, is somebody *legitimately* coming the other way going to get past the obstruction? Of course he is.

But that is irrelevant, since the legislation (as linked above) makes no mention of "legitimate users".
It just says:
"If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence".

It isn't even about him blocking a specific person, it is the fact he is obstructing the free passage.

if you can find a legitimate user being blocked in his videos then do share. I haven’t spotted any yet.

 

[matticus]

In all the times that Mikey has stopped drivers endangering others at that corner, have the police ever charged him with obstruction?

Yup. [EDIT: I didn't mean "Yes he's been charged" - sorry for confusion!]
Come on @Alex321 you must be able to see that: consider the vast ranks of anti-Mikeys, SOMEONE would have worked out how to get him charged!!

 

[Electric_Andy]

I admire him for standing up to bad and dangerous driving. I've not watched enough of him to see if he rides to his own high standards in terms of roadcraft, but assume he does. It's quite telling that he is also courteous t oand respectful of considerate drivers

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Yup

I didn’t know that.

Do you know how many times, and the outcomes?

 

[matticus]

I didn’t know that.

Do you know how many times, and the outcomes?

Sorry: I didn't reply at all clearly! Try again:

In all the times that Mikey has stopped drivers endangering others at that corner, have the police ever charged him with obstruction?

No, I'm not aware of any charges. IMO there have been lots of opportunities: I'm pretty sure the police would treat any complaints as time-wasting.
Just IMO of course!

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

Someone on a phone while in a car is illegal - but if the car is stationary then the risk is very low - for example

I strongly disagree with this.

Drivers get so absorbed in their phones, they don't notice immediately when the traffic moves. When they do - sometimes because someone behind honks their horn - they set off startled, without making full observations (mirrors, blindspots).

I'm confident this has resulted in collisions involving queuing/filtering cyclists and motorcyclists.

 

[matticus]

ebiker: "... but if the car is stationary then the risk is very low - for example "

I strongly disagree with this.

Drivers get so absorbed in their phones, they don't notice immediately when the traffic moves. When they do - sometimes because someone behind honks their horn - they set off startled, without making full observations (mirrors, blindspots).

I'm confident this has resulted in collisions involving queuing/filtering cyclists and motorcyclists.

.. and to back that up, I'll point out that I've only been hospitalised by a SMIDSY driver who was pretty much stationary at the moment he managed to look straight through me. Cars are heavy - they don't need much space to accelerate, then cause life-changing injuries to pedestrians/cyclists.

 

[ianrauk]

Drivers get so absorbed in their phones, they don't notice immediately when the traffic moves. When they do - sometimes because someone behind honks their horn - they set off startled, without making full observations (mirrors, blindspots).

100% I see this all the time on my commutes.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Drivers on their phones are a menace and need to be banned. When they have learnt the error of their ways, they can be allowed to drive again

 

[fossyant]

https://road.cc/content/news/cyclingmikeys-bike-ran-over-driver-ignoring-road-closure-315381

Silly thing to do in my opinion. Chucking your bike at a car to try and stop it !

 

[postman]

Some car drivers are just dick heads in life anyway,full of themselves.Our council spent three quarters of a million quid,on a junction at Green Road and Stonegate Road.There was sod all wrong with it.They stopped them turning right out of it.But in the middle of the road they left a low island.So car drivers now still turn right and drive over the raised bed.Had it been a full height kerb it would have stopped them doing it.So now just this week they have put a camera up at the junction.Easiest thing would have been four rubber wands simple solution.The whole junction is an abortion.

 

[cyberknight]

https://road.cc/content/news/cyclingmikeys-bike-ran-over-driver-ignoring-road-closure-315381

Silly thing to do in my opinion. Chucking your bike at a car to try and stop it !

according to the blurb he didnt chuck his bike and it looks to me like he tried to stop the car by wheeling it in front of the oncoming car , maybe by using the crawl speed function and the driver decided he wasn’t going to stop .I m not saying it was the brightest thing to do but it doesn’t like he chucked the bike .
I can see where he is coming from and i know he has personal reasons for what he does but someone is going to seriously injure or kill him one day when he meets the nut job we know that can lurk behind a wheel.

 

[T4tomo]

Its not illegal, but he cycles in flip flops.

 

[KingstonGraham]

according to the blurb he didnt chuck his bike and it looks to me like he tried to stop the car by wheeling it in front of the oncoming car , maybe by using the crawl speed function and the driver decided he wasn’t going to stop .I m not saying it was the brightest thing to do but it doesn’t like he chucked the bike .
I can see where he is coming from and i know he has personal reasons for what he does but someone is going to seriously injure or kill him one day when he meets the nut job we know that can lurk behind a wheel.

He tried to get in front of the car while the driver was very intent on going through the no entry sign - if he was a bit quicker, the driver would have taken him down as well as the bike. They both knew the other was going to be there, and neither stopped. It does shows the difference in danger posed by bikes and cars, I suppose.

I'm glad he does what he does with phone drivers, but this just seemed a bit silly.