Idiot Motorcyclist v Idiot cyclist

[Drew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXYsjLsz78

Idiot motorcyclist rides into cyclist then puts video on youtube

Idiot cyclist rides down middle of road while on the phone




Please don't be a repost

[Tungtvann]

Hardly the cyclist's fault!

[map]

Cyclist on mobile phone. That's not an offence like for motor vehicles. There is a cycling with due care or some such.

As much as I'd like to support the biker no real excuse for forcing past cyclist like that.
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[Omega]

Isn't that a cycle lane that the cyclist is quite happily cycling along in? Motorcyclist 100% at fault, he clearly rode into him on purpose.

[Rigga]

What a cock the motorcyclist is, as a cyclist myself I've noticed that some people just have it in for you no matter what you do.
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[djrikki]

Bloody hell. Even if raging why would you ram someone with your bike. Surely the bicycle will cause paint damage at least to your own bike?

[growler]

Last time we visited London my wife and I were crossing at that set of lights and we were half way across when the lights changed
And every vehicle started to pull away!
I had to be quite aggressive to make them wait till we had cleared the road and one of them stupid 3 wheeled moped things was pulled over by a police van for driving straight at my wife only stopping when I informed him in a loud voice that I would remove him from his bike and step firmly all over his head if he continued
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[Tungtvann]

https://hyperstrada.com/ducati-hyperstrada/663-ducati-dragons-s-youtube-channel.html

https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=625_1400802712

Shit storm brewing over this one!

[Drew]

[handbasket]

I'm glad someone finally posted this.

The use of the mobile phone had no bearing on the incident. Not clever by any means, but not the cause of the collision. The attitude of the motorcyclist and his lack of basic knowledge and road sharing skills - didn't know he was in a cycle lane, insisted he had no choice but to force his way past dangerously. Never heard of slowing down sunshine? Then tried to blame cyclist. Total cock. The cycle lane in the middle of the road is likely a right turn filter lane, btw. Perfectly legitimate to be cycling there. I sometimes see other motorcycles filtering in cycle lanes; I avoid doing so. If you want to be seen as a legitimate road user, act like one.

[c_dug]

That's not a cycle lane?

There is a separate cycle lane that runs all the way up constitution hill beside the footpath, separated from the road by a solid barrier and a horse track iirc.

Cyclist had no reason to be where he was, and even less to be on the phone.



Also I'm one of those who will happily set off with people in the road if the light is solid green. If you waited for the pedestrians to clear the road before moving you would never move at half the crossings in London. The crossing on charing Cross at the top of Northumberland avenue is particularly bad for that.
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[Llama-Farmer]

Wonder if the policewoman noticed the camera and suggested that footage ought to be reviewed, since the motorcyclist was so convinced he was in the right.


Like others, I don't feel it was particularly sensible of the cyclist to be on the phone... London is a dangerous enough place to cycle when you've got your full concentration on all the vehicles around you. But it played no part in this incident, 100% bikers fault, and I don't even know how he can begin to defend himself let alone blame the cyclist
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[Ayrton]

Looks like he wanted to shove him out of the way and ride off. Collision wasnt the cyclists fault, but the guy shouldnt have been on the phone. That's why i hate cyclists. They want everyone to treat them like they have the same right to the road, yet they choose which laws to abide to depending on what suits them.

[BumpingUglys]

Looked like the cyclist was abiding by all applicable laws. If you think that's wrong, fair enough, but blame the law-makers not the end user.

In fairness, cycle lanes that are out in the middle of the road are sketchy at the best of times and the cyclist should have been paying more attention. I can't envisage any reasonable scenario where he could've seen that coming though. Motorbike 100% at fault, and guy was a smooth talking, reasonable sounding dickhead; the worst kind.

[c_dug]

Again, the cyclist should not have been where he was. That lane is not a cycle lane.
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[Irn-Bru]

Why are people bitching about the cyclist, the Ducati tosser rode straight into him on purpose, there's no excuse what so ever. To top it off it's an old bloke as well, could very easily broke a few bones. Hope the law catches up with him.
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[c_dug]

Not justifying what the guy on the ducati did, but there is no denying that the cyclist shouldn't be there and shouldn't be on the phone, neither point is illegal, but both are stupidity.
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[defblade]

There was so much room to go around the outside there, very light traffic coming the other way, a second's lift on the throttle then quick nip past and smooth quick progress continues.
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[ScaredyCat]

[c_dug]

As I said above there is an entirely separate cycle lane, there is no reason at all for a cyclist to be in the road there, if he wasn't on his phone he might have realised.
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[P.addy]

Cyclist was failing to make progress.

https://hostr.co/file/xzMF7m0/appearing%20coolface.gif

[BumpingUglys]

Google maps (Constitution Hill if you're interested) reveals nothing but some weird-ass lane in the middle of the road. What the hell is it?

[ScaredyCat]

[c_dug]

Again as above its a shared overtaking lane.
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