Undertaking or Must Pass Cyclist moment

[classic33]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qdP0BllbJg


Caught up at the lights. Driver not at all peased that I'd been able to pass him.

 

[gaz]

From the start of the video your in the right side of the road, then slowly moving towards the left?
As impatient and silly as the driver was to undertake you to get 3/4m up the road, it's not hard to say that if you were more clear with your positioning it wouldn't have happened.
6 of one half a dozen of the other in my books.

 

[marinyork]

From the start of the video your in the right side of the road, then slowly moving towards the left?
As impatient and silly as the driver was to undertake you to get 3/4m up the road, it's not hard to say that if you were more clear with your positioning it wouldn't have happened.
6 of one half a dozen of the other in my books.

Not really. There are no dividing line markings on that bit of the road.

 

[BentMikey]

There's not much point in trying to control a road that wide. I'd just stick closer to one side and let the guy past. Doesn't excuse his actions of course, not just the impatient pass before red lights, but also that he shouldn't even be driving in that area.

 

[gaz]

I'm not giving that as an excuse for the undertake by the driver. BUT if the positioning was clearer then it wouldn't have happened. i wouldn't ever give a car enough room to undertake either.

my 2p

 

[classic33]

gaz Fair comment.
However
Road is one way, with a light operated pedestrian crossing on a road narrowing. This puts it down to a single lane where joined. Road opens out further on, however there are clearly marked bus stands.

BentMikey
Two junctions to the left & the bus stands make it safer to stay out.

 

[marinyork]

20 zone and no road markings. The driver is an idiot.

I thought the positioning was clear, stayed pretty central bearing in mind the lack of road markings, road shape and parked cars. One reading would be that that sort of positioning would be exactly the right sort of thing to do. I wouldn't have called that controlling behaviour as classic33 wasn't going fast, I'd have called it practical.

It's time to deploy the what if it was a car question. If a car was idling but not crawling towards a set of traffic lights on red on a narrow road with no dividing line towards the middle of it would you overtake/undertake? The answer is no. So the driver is a moron.

 

[Tynan]

if you leave a gap inside you big enough for a car, you're going to get one, siple as that, they'll have no idea whatsoever what you;re doing 'out there'

 

[marinyork]

if you leave a gap inside you big enough for a car, you're going to get one, siple as that, they'll have no idea whatsoever what you;re doing 'out there'

It doesn't matter a fig, classic33 has priority.

 

[fossyant]

You were a bit....S....L....O....W.... though ?

 

[stowie]

Classic33 mentions in his comments on YouTube that the road is closed to motor traffic except taxis and buses. Seeing as this car has no taxi markings, I would assume it shouldn't be there in the first place.

 

[tightwad]

You were either drunk or pulling a trailer advertising something? I'm guessing the latter which is why you stopped at the red light.

 

[classic33]

You were either drunk or pulling a trailer advertising something? I'm guessing the latter which is why you stopped at the red light.

If I was drunk I wouldn't have been cycling. If I'd been pulling a trailer http://www.bikesatwork.com/bike-trailers/model-96a-bike-trailer.html
I'd not have got through.

Stopping when the light is red is a legal requirement. Not stopping is what gets all cyclists tarred with the same brush.

P.S. Never been drunk in my life, Some of us know when to stop drinking.

 

[2Loose]

+1 Tynan.

Sod what is right and wrong, if you dawdle like that over such a wide space then somebody is going to take the opportunity if they see fit. If you don't want them on your left, then close that left side space down, likewise to the right.

 

[Cubist]

Mixymadman eh? That there village used to be my footbeat.