They of course exist. I said I don't know them as I don't cycle/live in the UK. Do you know the laws related to motorised vehicles in the UK?
So you're saying if he reports said cyclists ( there doesn't appear to by any evidence to support that) they don't deserve to be publicly called out as he does with car drivers?
I'll play...
They don't exist.
Your turn...
One thing that is clear from his videos which you appear to miss is he always focuses on what is the bigger danger and what kills the most people. That would be cars.
Priorities are important with your time especially when you want to create a meaningful impact, wouldn't you agree?
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/rules-for-cyclists-59-to-82
Your turn
Yes cars are a bigger danger. While they are less of a danger, there still have been people killed by cyclists. Case in point, the cyclists going the wrong side of the road on that gandalf corner who could potentially knock down a pedestrian crossing the road looking the opposite way
Now, that wasn't so hard was it.
That's quite clearly not a case in point - it's hypothesis.
So as an example how many people have been killed by a) cars breaking red lights and b) cyclists breaking red lifhts in the UK over say a 10 year period.
I await your stats. I can only assume you are trying to big up the danger caused by a cyclist based on actual figures?
Or are you just imagining dangers?
LoL trying your best to just be argumentive now just because I questioned cyclists. I already said cars are a bigger danger. There have been pedstrians killed/injured by cyclists. Yes it's a small figure but isn't even one death/injury worth avoiding?
So a car doing same at the junction is just hypothesis too?
I'm a cyclist and to be fair to him he's right about the law in the clips i've seen, granted only a few, but the way he go's about it i find very weird, honestly i don't think the guy is all there mentally and fully expect to read someday he's been attacked. I'm happy not to be a cyclist like him, or others with their cameras looking for trouble.
I'm not sure where you're going with this? You said cyclists kill people too, referenced a case in point, but simply gave a hypothetical scenario. All I'm saying is that this is not a case in point. A case in point would link to an article, or a report/ statistics or something. Meanwhile we're smashing through last year's statistics for people killed in car accidents this year. Case in point - ‘Appalling start to the year’ – road deaths in 2022 almost double last year - Independent.ie
It's pure logic and statistics - something that seems to go out the window with in the whole 'whaddabout cyclists breaking lights' argument any time road safety is brought up. There's a reason why people who get around other than solely in cars get up in arms about drivers breaking the law - it's because statistically someone speeding, breaking red lights or reading their phone is more likely to cause an accident, and that logically and statistically someone hit by a car is more likely to suffer serious injury than someone hit by a cyclist.
So, people whose response to criticism of driving behaviour and culture is to say "yeah well cyclists" is simply engaging in whataboutery and not actually concerned with the carnage caused on our roads as a direct result of the type of actions I mentioned above.
Yes, cyclists can be d!cks. But even if there were as many d!cks cycling as there are driving, my chances of being killed or injured by the driving d!ck are much higher.
One death should be avoided, but we have to again look at use of resources, priority's and risks.
If you have say a 2% chance of death if being hit by a cyclist but a 70% chance of death if hit by a car which should you focus on more? Additionally, if you are say 24 times more likely to be hit by a car breaking a red light when compared to a bike.
Don't you think it makes sense to use the limited resources on traffic enforcement for cars or would you much rather waste valuable resources on something that is so low risk just because you appear to dislike cyclists so much?
Again, you're looking for an argument. I never said or made any assertions about disliking cyclists. I am a cyclist.
My original point which you digressed from is that he could give the cyclists who break the rules at gandalf corner the same grief he gives motorised vehicles with the spiel about "you're getting reported to the police/watch yourself on YouTube later"
So you’d be in favour of serious speed limit reductions, because the multiple deaths arising from speeding drivers would be avoided, right?
He does give out to them. But he says he won't stand in front of them in case they come off their bike and injure themselves - which I think is reasonable enough.
Also there is no point in reporting them to the police as there is no way to identify them. The drivers are all identified through their car reg.
Again, your logic is completely skewed.
Much as I dislike his modus operandi, what you are arguing (that he should give the same treatment to cyclists) is akin to asking why are Greenpeace protesting the killing of whales off Japan when they could be in Ukraine protesting the murder of civilians? Or at least, that those people should divide their time equally.
It's simple - he's someone who cycles, sees a massive, inherent danger in what he does, caused by illegal behaviour of a specific set of people, and takes a course of action to combat that danger. It in no way follows that he should also be chasing after cyclists.
If the risk of injury from cyclists was so real, you'd have concerned motorists and pedestrians doing the same sort of thing as CM. But it's not, and they don't.
i think you must be one of those avid cyclists
😂
accidental partridge, with near accident.
Ah ha!!!!!! That was gas 🤣
Interesting the follow he got from the police in he email.
Is it Jim Carrey impersonating Alan Partridge?
I dunno, that's provoking a situation if you ask me.
I agree, the driver definitely provoked the situation by using his phone while driving, and then by driving like a twat.
He got caught. You can either be a grown up, own it and say fair enough. Whether you learn from it or not is a different kettle of fish. Instead this guy acted like one of my kids friends who can't help but lie and exaggerate to the extreme (which is fine as a small child). I'm over the moon he was caught, not because he was on his phone (which was wrong) but because his attitude was akin to someone under the age of 8 in terms of his response. Guy isn't mature enough or of a mental capacity to be behind the wheel.
i have the misfortune to have come across someone like that, ex military and very unused to people disagreeing with them; they're not able to tell you to stop disagreeing with them if you're not their subordinate.
and yet he was mature enough to give a gun to and send to the front line. Some people should never have that kind of responsibility and he sure as **** was one of them
i forgot to mention when posting it that it's much better if you click through to the youtube link; the video is longer and clearer, and the audio a bit clearer. and he comes across as an ever bigger lunatic in the longer version.
Even if he was confrontational, he was dead right to be confrontational over it.
If your man’s that dense to be driving over paths while trying to argue with someone, he definitely shouldn’t be on his phone in his car, seeing as he has the attention deficit of a goldfish
Of f*ck, just watched the whole video, it is hilarious if it wasn't real life. It's like watching Alan Partridge impersonating a Vet or David Brent making up stories. No one really believes he was in the army though?
Interesting letter on MIkey's twitter feed which might indicate why many of London's taxi drivers hate cyclists who record their journeys...
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