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  • 28-06-2010 11:07am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭


    Apologies if this is one of you boardsies but I happened on these vids today. It seems to me like someone with a bike and a headcam looking for trouble. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNMj6PLeTO4 if someone was ridin up my back tyre like he is here I'd be upset...but he has 40plus videos of 'close calls' (matter of opinion) etc. Is this kind of thing common?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,676 ✭✭✭Gavin


    To be fair, the field of view of that camera is very small, and the angle can be confusing with respect to distance. He may not be as close to the cyclist as he appears. Certainly though he is right behind him, I don't know why he didn't just overtake, there were plenty of gaps in the traffic.

    I don't know what the deal is with people who record their trips. They seem to get into lots of encounters. Or perhaps it's simply that everyone has these mild encounters and promptly forgets them, rather then posting them on the internet for posterity.

    edit - Another example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q30R_i-8Ho
    Should have moved out into the lane to prevent that happening. Then a toot of the airhorn which accomplishes nothing. Pointless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    This guy seems like a dick imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭fenris


    A good snot rocket would have given him something to post about!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I only watched the posted link and the "Nearly doored" one.

    With the sound on, I was surprised not to hear some ranting from the cyclist on "Nearly doored". So whilst I can't be bothered to muster an opinion about defensive cycling (or lack of), s/he doesn't appear to be a raging nutcase like some of the other examples posted from youtube in the past.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,394 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    One persons idea of danger is not anothers. I'm terrified of heights and drowning so I avoid towers and water, while other people climb buildings without safety equipment and swim the channel. If someone finds it dangerous to have five seconds to react while moving uphill, then maybe he too should avoid cycling because that's just not dangerous.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭billy.fish


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,223 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    I'm terrified of heights and drowning so I avoid towers and water

    Here you go


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭goldencleric


    Have a look at his close pass with a car video! (reg 06-D-something is in the title)

    shocking! :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,029 ✭✭✭Wicklowrider


    He may not be looking for trouble - but he isn't trying very hard to avoid it imo. Looking over a few of the videos I think its a matter of time before he gets hurt. He should take more care of himself. Incident with red fiesta - technically the car is wrong but reading the road would tell him what the car was about to do. Got to love the russian guys comments under one of the vids about packs of wild dogs attacking cyclists! We have it easy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭Tau


    Wouldn't read that much into it - they're videos of not very exciting things which have been posted on youtube. Isn't that basically what youtube is for? There are boring videos of almost everything else on youtube, it was only a matter of time before someone started putting up cycling ones.


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