"Driver calls 999 to report a cyclist for refusing to leap out of her way"

[sheddy]

Always pointless trying to reason with a motorist.

 

[winjim]

If we are purely judging just on the video, I'll be honest, I'm a bit disappointed with the victim blaming here. She really could have just gone on her way too.

To be clear, I'm not victim blaming. This is a cycling forum so looking at videos like this I like to put myself in the cyclist's position and think about their behaviour and what I could maybe have done differently in that situation. It's no good just bleating on about how awful the driver was; awful drivers exist, we are going to encounter them and it's a good little exercise to consider how we might deal with them.

In this case, the cyclist could have let it go after the initial confrontation. They each would have gone on their ways, both thinking that the other was a bit of an entitled nobber and that would have been that. But he chose to escalate the situation first by banging on about the highway code and then with the YouTube comment. Maybe we weren't to expect a 999 call but it was entirely predictable that there could be some reaction.

Has any driver ever modified their behaviour and revised and relearned their driving theory as a result of a cyclist shouting through their window? If so then more power to the shouty cyclists, if not then what's the point?

 

[roadrash]

I want to know why the cyclist says ."you will be o youtube later" as though its some kind of threat

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I want to know why the cyclist says ."you will be o youtube later" as though its some kind of threat

"You're being recorded" but with added oomph of being on the internet

 

[Bonefish Blues]

"You're being recorded" but with added oomph of being on the internet

To paraphrase.

CAM U RAH when said by a DCW 😊

 

[mustang1]

Doesn't that Mikey bloke upload videos all the time and tell driver's he's going to do it?

Does anyone know that other cyclist who goes around London and has loads of cameras attached to his bike... I cannot find his YouTube channel?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Does anyone know that other cyclist who goes around London and has loads of cameras attached to his bike... I cannot find his YouTube channel?

You don't want to find it

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Does anyone know that other cyclist who goes around London and has loads of cameras attached to his bike... I cannot find his YouTube channel?

I know exactly who you mean but I'm not telling... In my opinion the poor fella has some serious issues and needs counselling more than YouTube hits.

 

[winjim]

I know exactly who you mean but I'm not telling... In my opinion the poor fella has some serious issues and needs counselling more than YouTube hits.

He's never still going is he?

 

[PK99]

I know exactly who you mean but I'm not telling... In my opinion the poor fella has some serious issues and needs counselling more than YouTube hits.

Are you referring to Droid or the Paranoid Bus Driver

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

Are you referring to Droid or the Paranoid Bus Driver

The former. I hope he's not still camming to be honest.

 

[LCpl Boiled Egg]

He's never still going is he?

I hope he's moved on from it, for the sake of his mental health.

 

[Craig the cyclist]

The cyclist could have taken more care at the 2 minute point when he was faced with the oncoming van. He pushed on regardless at that point when he should have waited.

 

[DaveReading]

It's gone global(ish): Vídeo surrealista: Una conductora llama a la policía porque un ciclista no le dejaba pasar

 

[Eric Olthwaite]

It's gone global(ish): Vídeo surrealista: Una conductora llama a la policía porque un ciclista no le dejaba pasar

I must have missed the llama. Never thought their camouflage was that effective, until now.