“lol, watch the video properly before you take a biased view of it.”
OK
As for the 'Road Rage' video, you seem to be riding in the gutter, at least not primary, the silver car pulls up, and you close right up and then go down the nearside. A bit of forward planning and getting off the gas would have kept you in a safer position IMO.
The reflection of your head in the speedo does not show you doing a 'lifesaver' glance backwards, or looking to 'see' the road rage car approaching. Did you have mirrors to support your comment of having to go down the side of the silver car to avoid being rear ended? If the video was taken on the Claude Butler, there wasn’t a mirror I could see.
Silver car then sets off, you set off, and road rage car over takes you. At 48 secs, your head CLEARLY looks to the right, just as the road rage car overtakes.
Close overtake, but hardly a case of your lunch arriving in your pants 1.5 hours earlier than scheduled.
Then, miraculously, after having in your own words 'hit the wall' earlier, your speed increases from a sedate 25kph to 30kph +, and the reflection shows you bodily accelerating on the bike.
But, interestingly, you are no longer in the gutter; you are now Ueber-primary on the approach to the 1st RA. (I thought you were turning right!)
You then say road rage car slows on the next RA, but you are now on the offside of this car doing 26kph, and you go straight over the middle of the RA, and on the exit the 'buy some road tax' comment can be heard.
I doubt you want to read my opinion, but, for what it’s worth, you are at the end of a fast ride, spinning out on the way home, a car parked on the nearside opposite the petrol station causes the silver car to yield. There is NO deceleration from you till the last minute and you then go down the nearside. I put this down to tiredness. Matey boy in the road rage car overtakes you closely. Endorphins now kick in and you accelerate after it.
IMO you put yourself in a very vulnerable position doing that, and who knows what that driver was thinking? Might he have been wondering where the cyclist was going? His comment about the road tax is for him to justify, not me.
You then spend the next 45 seconds of the video accelerating up to 45kph+ (surprising considering how tired you were) to keep in touch with the car, and at 2:26 say ‘See you later, W*****’
You got red mist in my opinion, and as a cyclist, that can be very dangerous, also if this was road rage on the car’s part, you did yourself no favours ‘chasing’ the car at the point you thought that was the case. You should have stopped there and then.
Simple.
