Also ranting at others to "watch out" as in "i'm after you" in an aggressive manner as they are cycling away from him.
Did make me chuckle when he was ranting at a Taxi driver for breaking the highway code when in fact HE was the one in the wrong.
Traffic droid
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Also ranting at others to "watch out" as in "i'm after you" in an aggressive manner as they are cycling away from him.
Did make me chuckle when he was ranting at a Taxi driver for breaking the highway code when in fact HE was the one in the wrong.
mr_cellophane
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He has threatened plenty of people with losing their job. This is something he has no control over and then he comes across the same person again sitll driving and still driving badly, only this time they know that his threats don't mean anything and they pass closer (note - he isn't the only camera cyclist to do this).
If you get a close pass, shout or ask nicely for more room, then more on save any threats of reporting to their employer or the police until you get home and have reviewed your clip. It is always possible that it shows nothing, or that you are the ass instead.
Cycling Dan
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These other people must have four legs and look very much like rabbits.
AndyRM
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Let me be clearer then - if he rampaged up to me like that, sticking his hand in my face/car window, I'd be able to cope and handle the situation. If he behaved like that towards my wife, she'd feel threatened.
AndyRM
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[QUOTE 2985389, member: 45"]Let's hope then that your wife doesn't drive in the threatening manner that most of those he red cards do.[/QUOTE]
She doesn't, but that's not really my point which I suspect you know. You've got your opinions on him and I've got mine. Let's leave it at that.
She doesn't, but that's not really my point which I suspect you know. You've got your opinions on him and I've got mine. Let's leave it at that.
jarlrmai
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Said it before and I'll say it again Trafficdroid is the logical extension of a lack of any sort of enforcement of dangerous driving around cyclists. He obviously has issues after his collision, hell I have issues after my crash whenever nerves when I see a car that might pullout on me.
He often says "you should lose your job", or "your employers will hear about this" it's the adrenaline combined with a lack of justice that a lot of us feel after someone rams a 20 tonne bus past us on a narrow street, the police do nothing so we have to rely on the company potentially not wanting bad publicity, private car owners are pretty much immune.
To be honest the smirking bus driver who did it twice to him was the worst i've seen, I genuinely hope something happens there.
His "OTT" cameras are probably from numerous responses saying the footage was not clear or the wide angle helmet camera making the passing distance seem wider than it was, notice how he gets a picture of the face a lot when he can mostly because he's been told we don't know who was driving at the time so can't do anything.
TL;DR lack of enforcement = Someone like the Trafficdroid.
He often says "you should lose your job", or "your employers will hear about this" it's the adrenaline combined with a lack of justice that a lot of us feel after someone rams a 20 tonne bus past us on a narrow street, the police do nothing so we have to rely on the company potentially not wanting bad publicity, private car owners are pretty much immune.
To be honest the smirking bus driver who did it twice to him was the worst i've seen, I genuinely hope something happens there.
His "OTT" cameras are probably from numerous responses saying the footage was not clear or the wide angle helmet camera making the passing distance seem wider than it was, notice how he gets a picture of the face a lot when he can mostly because he's been told we don't know who was driving at the time so can't do anything.
TL;DR lack of enforcement = Someone like the Trafficdroid.
Cycling Dan
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[QUOTE 2985431, member: 45"]No, I don't get your point because I don't understand why you use your wife as an illustration as she's not an idiot driver.[/QUOTE]
Funny how when ever someone tries to make a point about feeling threatened it always the wife or a women like they are some magical wavering being scared of their own footsteps.
Funny how when ever someone tries to make a point about feeling threatened it always the wife or a women like they are some magical wavering being scared of their own footsteps.
AndyRM
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Right, fine, I'll use my mate Steve. Despite his imposing height, he's a complete pussy. He's also learning to drive and has made some mistakes. If TD steamed up to him like that he'd feel intimidated, scared and threatened. To cover other bases, I've got a couple of trans-gender friends who would feel the same. My point has nothing to do with gender, rather the sight of an imposing guy bellowing up to you on the side of the road and how it might make you feel, and how others might consider cyclists as a collective.
glenn forger
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"I was driving along in a two ton van, chatting on a mobile and veering out of my lane when I nearly smashed into a cyclist who started yelling.
I felt very intimidated and scared".
I felt very intimidated and scared".
I have just watched "one way street" where he goes straight into shouting at a woman in a stationary car. She was parked where she should haven't been but she was in no way obtructing him, wasn't moving and was clearly visible way in advance. Rather than cycling around her like a normal person would do he launches straight into shouting at here so, yes, I'd say that was pretty threatening. As for stopping, turning around and shouting at children, that's just plain weird and creepy.
I didn't think it at all hilarious, more very disturbing. No-one has the right to behave that way towards other people.
I didn't think it at all hilarious, more very disturbing. No-one has the right to behave that way towards other people.
AndyRM
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That wasn't him. Just an even angrier dude on a bike.
gaz
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I bumped into traffic droid the other day. Despite knowing him, having met several times and talked a lot. He pretty much blanked me. :O
View: http://youtu.be/eKuB1hLZZuw?t=3m
View: http://youtu.be/eKuB1hLZZuw?t=3m
Ah, I stand corrected. I was having difficulty understanding how people could say he was such a great guy and he's got good reasons to be that way etc.
TrafficDroid, I take it back. You may or may not be an arse, but "one way street" man most definitely is.
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