"I will run you over, You're gonna die" - Video.

arleitiss · 05-06-2014 12:46AM #1

Hey, recently saw this video:
Not sure if it was brought up here yet but anyways:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwqRqIvo4GU

Thoughts?

Not sure why but to me it sounds like it's another cyclist just being prick.

EazyD · 05-06-2014 12:48AM

Already exists in cycling forum

arleitiss · 05-06-2014 12:50AM

EazyD wrote: »

Already exists in cycling forum

It will obviously have different views on it

keith16 · 05-06-2014 12:53AM

arleitiss wrote: »

It will obviously have different views on it

Obviously not. Many in there have said the cyclist had a death wish taking the line he did.

Many of the cyclists in there also rightly say that it's people like him that give us all a bad name.

But yeah, go on ahead and have your rant against cyclists based on this one twat.

Toyotafanboi · 05-06-2014 12:54AM

if i was the cyclist i would have slowed down at the start instead of trying to force my way through the closing gap. that way the bus could have gotten ahead to where it was going and the cyclist could have negotiated it without having to risk injury.

maybe the bus shouldn't have been encroaching into the cycle lane. life isn't perfect, i can't imagine it's easy negotiating something with a rigid body 50 or so feet long through the crowded city. there's a rule at sea that smaller more manoeuvrable craft must make way for larger, more difficult to manoeuvre craft, it's just common sense really. same should apply in traffic.

it would have been much easier for the cyclist to make that situation right than the bus driver.

dgt · 05-06-2014 12:58AM

keith16 wrote: »

Obviously not. Many in there have said the cyclist had a death wish taking the line he did.

Many of the cyclists in there also rightly say that it's people like him that give us all a bad name.

But yeah, go on ahead and have your rant against cyclists based on this one twat.

Summed it up for me. Plenty of normal cyclists about but sadly always one dick actively looking for trouble or any excuse to have a row. Same with driving, pedestrians etc

Wonder why the bus went into the lane, was there an obstruction, he didn't do it to the other 2 infront... Guess we'll never know

arleitiss · 05-06-2014 01:06AM

yeah I read up now on that thread in cycling forum, didn't know the guy that filmed that has quite a history of risky cycling and trying to act as victim.

Moneymaker · 05-06-2014 01:25AM

Totally avoidable situation. Both come across as aholes tbh.

Bus driver had no reason to veer into the lane, but the cyclist shouldn't have forced the issue and just backed off.

desultory · 05-06-2014 01:27AM

Guy driving the bus was a dickhead.
Guy cycling is a dickhead and a massive idiot.

and there we go.

donvito99 · 05-06-2014 01:28AM

Considering the amount of cyclists killed by large vehicles on the quays down through the years, the bus driver - as a professional - should not stray into what is a very busy stretch for cyclists.

Also asshole cyclist with camera is asshole.... nothing new here.

Interslice · 05-06-2014 01:43AM

Undertaking by the cyclist. Then he cycles out in front of the bus. Don't see how the bus driver was a dick. He was just passing on very sound advice to an idiot.

I think he veered into the cycle lane to avoid the cyclist in the middle of the road!

donvito99 · 05-06-2014 01:53AM

Interslice wrote: »

I think he veered into the cycle lane to avoid the cyclist in the middle of the road!

Where he is entitled to be....

... *runs for cover.

05-06-2014 02:07AM

It looks like he veers into the cycle lane with the intention to get closer to the footpath for the bus stop that he stops at (he closes the door on the bus before pulling off, too).

It looks like it's clear he's taking that route (despite no indicator visible in the video), and the cyclist forced his was up inside the bus, when he could as easily have hung back?

If the cyclist were further up the inside of the bus, when the bust began to close in, I'd blame the bus driver. But that's not the case. I blame the cyclist. As said, fairly avoidable situation to get in to.

Henry Ford III · 05-06-2014 06:23AM

Bus driver shouldn't have gone left into the cycling lane. No idea why he did.

Cyclist was a mouthy idiot though. He could have avoided the incident very easily.

p.s. Interesting that comments on youtube are disabled.

NIMAN · 05-06-2014 08:00AM

Only watched it the once, but the thing that stood out for me was the craziness of the cyclist.

So there is a closing gap in front of me, and instead of hitting the brakes and falling back, he speeds up!

I read in the cycling forum thread that this cyclist has other videos where he is arguing with other road users, so perhaps he goes out of his way to get into rows with people?

Plus, the audio is very unclear, not 100% that the driver said what is being claimed. Maybe he said "I could have run you over" instead of "I will run you over". There's a massive difference.

phelixoflaherty · 05-06-2014 08:09AM

http://i61.tinypic.com/244czux.jpg

Bus stop is in on the left near van with red back

BMJD · 05-06-2014 10:22AM

sharing road space is a two way street baby

Mycroft H · 05-06-2014 10:33AM

Two idiots in that video, only one of them is going to get a bollocking. Pity

Kenny Logins · 05-06-2014 10:34AM

If you need a dickhead just give any man a bicycle and a camera.

Jesus. · 05-06-2014 10:48AM

Fukking asshole cyclist. Our Cities streets were not designed for big buses so you should always give these fellas - and truckers - leeway because its difficult to manoeuvre such large vehicles in those small streets. That clown should never have kept on cycling up the inside. He should have known better.

The Muppet · 05-06-2014 11:01AM

Moneymaker wrote: »

Bus driver had no reason to veer into the lane,

Cant be sure about that as we cant see what the driver can see at the other side of the Bus. At the start of of the clip there is another cyclist overtaking him despite it appearing to be only single lane traffice at that point.

I didn't think the bus Drive is threatening, more trying to be realistic telling the cyclist he could end up dead by being so wreckless.

I'm sure gardai etc are involved in this now and the cycylist hase been identified elsewhere too so I reckon both parties will have questions to answer.

stoneill · 05-06-2014 11:01AM

Passing side - suicide.

desultory · 05-06-2014 11:09AM

Jesus. wrote: »

Fukking asshole cyclist. Our Cities streets were not designed for big buses so you should always give these fellas - and truckers - leeway because its difficult to manoeuvre such large vehicles in those small streets. That clown should never have kept on cycling up the inside. He should have known better.

"but there's a magic lane with a little bike on it and he's ENTITLED to be there" -every single cyclist argument ever.

They are the scourge of the roads.

Alias G · 05-06-2014 11:09AM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

there's a rule at sea that smaller more manoeuvrable craft must make way for larger, more difficult to manoeuvre craft, it's just common sense really. same should apply in traffic.

it would have been much easier for the cyclist to make that situation right than the bus driver.

That would be quite an ignorant rule to apply to traffic imo. Increasingly,infrastructure is being designed to give priority to peds, cyclists, public transport followed by other motorised traffic in descending order and that is the best philosophy for the modern age. Of course your last sentence is correct and it was within the cyclists ability to diffuse the situation at the very start which is what any sensible person would to but that should not be a general rule of traffic as you seem to suggest.

NIMAN · 05-06-2014 11:17AM

In that clip isn't there a cyclist seen to the right of the bus, moving in between it and a car to the right?

I would hate to be a bus driver in a busy city, you would really need your wits about you, and they must constantly fear seriously injuring or killing someone.

I think there are too many cyclists who are looking to be offended and willing to take silly risks to make a point on the road. This whole "I am entitled to use the road as much as you are" attitude will end up getting some of them killed due to them taking risks because they think they are allowed to.

MugMugs · 05-06-2014 11:21AM

It's become apparent that a camera on a helmet gives people a death wish. On fact, I had a dash cam and pulled a ridiculous move once (and got rightly owned on here for it)

I just pray nobody loses a life making a point with their GoPro

Jesus. · 05-06-2014 11:37AM

Alias G wrote: »

That would be quite an ignorant rule to apply to traffic imo..

I think you know what he meant. Any car driver/cyclist with an ounce of grey matter between their ears know to give these lads a bit of room when they can. Its simply common sense.

Alias G · 05-06-2014 11:44AM

Jesus. wrote: »

I think you know what he meant. Any car driver/cyclist with an ounce of grey matter between their ears know to give these lads a bit of room when they can. Its simply common sense.

But that is not what he typed is it. His statement was quite categorical in that smaller vehicles should give way to larger vehicles. I have no problem with showing courtesy to any other road user but it is a two way street (pardon the pun).

SeaFields · 05-06-2014 11:57AM

Is it the same guy from the 'I'm a woman on my own, stop harassing me' video that went viral a few months back?

Sounds and acts like him.

Alias G · 05-06-2014 12:00PM

SeaFields wrote: »

Is it the same guy from the 'I'm a woman on my own, stop harassing me' video that went viral a few months back?

Sounds and acts like him.

Not the same guyas far as I know, just one with a similar mental condition.

farna_boy · 05-06-2014 12:16PM

I find it hilarious that if a cyclist wears a camera he is looking for trouble but dash cams are not only acceptable but almost endorsed by every one in this forum.

"I will run you over, You're gonna die" - Video.

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