20 cm away from death
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(off to peruse what people are saying)
thegrumpybiker
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- North London
User3143 said:Looks to me like the tanker driver just didn't see the Lycra clad mushroom headed moron on the childs toy. I doubt very much that there was any malice involved, but the guy was very lucky not to get hurt.
So, lessons to be learned.....................instead of spending your money on fancy head cams and skin tight clothes best left in the S&M department, save it up and buy a car.
Oh, and while we're on the subject...................as this country is in the finacial toilet at present, isn't it about time that these two wheeled freeloaders were Taxed and Insured, it's a rich revenue stream which has as yet been untapped.
In general I think the drivers over on trucknet were ok, the above though made me laugh. Typical anti cyclist rant based on nothing but ignorance.
A truly sobering thought that such knuckle dragging specimens are allowed the keys to a 60mph capable multi-tonne of metal.
potsy
Rambler
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- My Armchair
I think mags should be known from this day forward as -The Mushroom Headed Moron.
Sorry pal but that made me chuckle
Sorry pal but that made me chuckle
jann71
Veteran
- Location
- West of Scotland
magnatom said:I forgot to ask, can anyone make out the registration of the red Ford that goes around me after the incident? I am wondering if they could be a witness. I can only make out part of it....
EEEEEEEKK! Glad you're still in one piece.
Last letter on the plate may be an X or an A but its probably clearer on your original video before uploading.
You can see your reflection / glowing yellow top in its rear passenger window.
That has got to be the worst video you've ever posted, Mag! And I've watched a lot of 'em! I hope you understand exactly what I mean by the word "worst" here, it's a sort of compliment really - on your capturing exactly the amount of nastiness and scariness that it entails. In fact the only sort of 'compliment' you really need at the moment, is that for still being on the outside of a wooden box not the inside...
Brahan: I live in West Sussex as you do - seemingly. And I've been cycling here for 30 years plus. I've never had anything remotely close to this happen to me. OK I did once have a car hit me on a RAB. But it was a glancing blow from behind, just took my rear wheel. I had already passed the driver's lane, he just shot out too fast. Nothing remotely like this! And I've cycled plenty on pretty 'hairy' West Sussex roads: A23, A24, A272, A264 etc. etc. No: this is the exception to cap all exceptions.
Perhaps a bit of more analytical comment is misplaced here, especially since (hopefully) the police have this well in hand, but I was wondering. Is this perhaps the sort of error (yes I know the word "error" is an understatement) committed by a driver who's more used to driving on the right? Thereby, more used to negotiating a roundabout anticlockwise? It may well be, if this driver is run to earth, that their nationality may have a bearing here. Not wishing to be xenophobic of course, but wishing to protect people's lives from these death-merchants...
Do your best to get that witness, M. May mean the difference between Driving Without Due Care and Dangerous Driving.
bauldbairn
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- Falkirk
magnatom said:Not in a that was nothing sort of way, but in a, it happens you avoided it move on, sort of way. What a gal!
+1, well done Mrs Mags.
I've had a look at the trucknetuk comments - there are maybe some knuckle draggers on the site(have to watch what I say some of my friends/relatives are truckers) but you were 5 to 1 up on the poll they were running. Many agreed - the driver should be procecuted/banned.
I couldn't understand the critisism of your speed/positioning on the road, nor the mushroom head/lycra jibes, nor JoeG's problem, nor the road tax/fuel tax/insurance rants - all seemed a tad juvenile to be honest. All rather embarassing for a professional drivers website I'd have thought?
I've not looked at the forum mentioned, not yet, but I can guess.bauldbairn said:+1, well done Mrs Mags.
I've had a look at the trucknetuk comments - there are maybe some knuckle draggers on the site(have to watch what I say some of my friends/relatives are truckers) but you were 5 to 1 up on the poll they were running. Many agreed - the driver should be procecuted/banned.
I couldn't understand the critisism of your speed/positioning on the road, nor the mushroom head/lycra jibes, nor JoeG's problem, nor the road tax/fuel tax/insurance rants - all seemed a tad juvenile to be honest. All rather embarassing for a professional drivers website I'd have thought?
It's an anonymity thing, isn't it. Like this forum, I suppose, on some threads, though thankfully not on this one. People assume there'll be no comeback, no way of tracking them down, so they flap their mouth any old how. Same as goes on on the DM 'comments' pages. Insist on posting names and addresses - and employers - and it'd soon be a different tune!
Happily there are a lot of folks around above this sort of thing.
