Traffic droid

[RedRider]

God, this thread's depressing.

 

[fossyant]

It is amusing how he says that others are in the wrong lane, when he him self is in the wrong lane and indicating to change!


I think this goes back to your previous comment about being a club ridder / cyclist vs someone who just does it for transportation.

He bike set up is weird, saddle pointing way too far down and way too high, meaning he carries a lot of weight on his hands and as you say, bad pedalling style. His horn is set up on the front brake, but not in a way that you can use both at the same time. Cameras in the drops of the bars meaning you can't use them and the last time I properly met him (not ignored) his front wheel was barely held on by his quick release leaver which wasn't functioning correctly.

You don't need this on a bike, go with the flow. No need to fight, unless someone thinks they can fight you !

 

[Rouge79]

[QUOTE 2986350, member: 30090"]Just what exactly is wrong with setting off in the lane 1 of a three lane road and giving a clear signal to move right another 100 yards down the road? The car who he had a barney with has tried to overtake him to go straight on, when looking at the rear facing camera when he was giving a signal there was ample room for the car to touch the brakes and let him go but they tried a left hook. Whilst I would not have reacted that way I can see why he got frustrated.[/QUOTE]

because it's potential suicide trying it especially on that road and he does it all the time. WHY put yourself in the dangerous position in the first place?

 

[RedRider]

If this was a football team we'd all be Michael Owen.

 

[fossyant]

London is very different to up North.

There are some junctions where slow cyclists are trying to negotiate, up here as cycling density is low, you would be a nutter to do it, or a full on roadie to get the speeds up. Some of those junctions look a mare for average jo.

 

[Rouge79]

There are road markings in all 3 lanes and they are a straight ahead arrow hence if you want to turn right WHY try to move across 2 lanes of fast moving traffic when you can safely position yourself in the correct lane?

Again the driver was a twat but if TD positioning was better he would not have been in the position that he was and always is. Look at all his other videos he keeps making the same mistake and comes into conflict with idiot and yes sometimes dangerous drivers.

 

[Rouge79]

London is very different to up North.

There are some junctions where slow cyclists are trying to negotiate, up here as cycling density is low, you would be a nutter to do it, or a full on roadie to get the speeds up. Some of those junctions look a mare for average jo.

agreed and if it were an average jo you could understand the poor positioning but he's a regular commuter via that route.

 

[Rouge79]

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5...ata=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sLwRvb31urD0C_RcRb76Xqg!2e0

 

[doog]

God, this thread's depressing.

I havent commuted for a few years now and just popped in to see the mayhem on the forum. This droid fella is still at it ..

Any numpty could cycle around and invent a few scenarios but something tells me he's making some money from his youtube channel so the onus is clearly on him to keep up the hits. What a saddo.

 

[RedRider]

I havent commuted for a few years now and just popped in to see the mayhem on the forum. This droid fella is still at it ..

Any numpty could cycle around and invent a few scenarios but something tells me he's making some money from his youtube channel so the onus is clearly on him to keep up the hits. What a saddo.

The pack mentality does my head in. Look how very boring we are.

 

[doog]

The pack mentality does my head in. Look how very boring we are.

Im old school, I would rather let the traffic flow around me than attempt to flow around a load of steel boxes and dictate to a load of uneducated motorists what i required them to do. If I wanted a confrontation I knew where to find it on the commute. You say boring, strangely enough I now walk my dog where I used to part commute on a shared trailway (prior to an 8 mile run along the A31). This isnt a dog walking thread but the uneducated arent the dog walkers, its the boring, speeding wa nkers on the bikes, without bells, head down thinking they own the place.....perhaps that was me.

Tempted to do a dog walking zoid type thing....

 

[RedRider]

Im old school, I would rather let the traffic flow around me than attempt to flow around a load of steel boxes and dictate to a load of uneducated motorists what i required them to do. If I wanted a confrontation I knew where to find it on the commute. You say boring, strangely enough I now walk my dog where I used to part commute on a shared trailway (prior to an 8 mile run along the A31). This isnt a dog walking thread but the uneducated arent the dog walkers, its the boring, speeding wa nkers on the bikes, without bells, head down thinking they own the place.....perhaps that was me.

Tempted to do a dog walking zoid type thing....

Maybe we're talking at cross purposes. It's the self-satisfied pointing and laughing i find depressing. Vive la farking difference

 

[mr_cellophane]

My point with TD and Westminster Square is that he gets himself into the same possition every time and never learns that moving over to the middle lane will reduce his problems considerably. The are three lanes at the lights which become 2 going straight and 3 going left. I would presume that they become; left lane straight on, right lane turning right and the centre lane for either. On that basis, the car was in the correct lane and TD wasn't. After all, you could look at it that TD tried to right hook the car.

 

[Mugshot]

Too much time turning on cameras.

I don't know how he remembers them all, I have a camera (yeah that's right ) , my little cycle computer thingy, phone for Strava and lights. It's a regular occurance for me to have to stop 100 yds down the road because I've forgotten to turn something on, poor old TD must have to start turning things on half an hour before he needs to leave, recharging everything must be a nightmare too, maybe that's why he seems a little angry the poor fella can't even have a cup of tea because all his sockets have got a Go-Pro stuck in them

 

[Cuchilo]

Anyone got a link to the vid where he ignores Gaz please