Dash cam saves your ass (no Roundabout stuff please :)

TBi wrote: »

If he had checked again possibly. All bikers should do a mirror check then a shoulder check before committing to a turn. If lucky he could have stopped before the turn but generally once you commit to a turn it's hard to uncommit without dropping the bike. However even if he had stopped there was such a small gap between him and the curb that the moped driver might have clipped him just going past.

Although as a motorbiker in the centre of a normal lane you do not expect anyone to undertake you. Ever. If there was a bicycle then you would have passed it out and known to double check for it.

Lets drop this discussion here. More vids, less chit chat, this thread is turning into a disaster.

I nearly drove into a deer carcass last night. A quick brake and skid around the poor crater. Although I think I drove over it's hoof's (hooves). I wasn't going the move it either it smelled really bad and my windows were closed. Of course I had to delete the first eventful thing I captured on my cam .

Tragedy wrote: »

I very rarely capture anything interesting these days.

I had a few videos earlier in the year, was getting about one note worthy video a week and all of a sudden they just stopped coming. Weird, like everyone collectively started driving better!

corktina wrote: »

@ bear1

very good, but I don't see how that saved your ass.

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Road rage - great calm down in action.

CiniO wrote: »

Road rage - great calm down in action.

Oh man that is brilliant!

CiniO wrote: »

Road rage - great calm down in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gop5plDJ9lE

Hyzepher wrote: »

Staged obviously

Ye Think!

I believe this is as close as someone has come to hitting me without hitting me if you know what I mean! I don't know what the guy was thinking?

Apologies for the jumping at the start only happens when I use windows movie maker for some reason.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056815237

Cant really make out much in video due to quality but I'll post it anyhow.

Saw a third light appear close behind a car in the distance, couldnt figure out what it was. At first thought the car was towing another vehicle, then I thought maybe it was a motorbike following close behind.

Only at the last second as it past me did I realise it was a cyclist in the middle of the road beside an oncoming car.

passes me at 0:13 in the video.

And this is why I argue hi-viz is very important. I hadnt a clue what it was. Shortly up the road I met 2 cyclists wearing hi-viz and I could see and identify they were cyclists from a mile off.

wonski wrote: »

It looks to me like the cyclist was overtaking the car:eek:

Never seen that. I agree about the vests, though. Same with runners - there are dozens of them around the entrance to work and I had few nervous moment when almost didn't see them when looking at the road to see if it is clear. Some of them wear handy black / grey clothes to make them safer:rolleyes:

I honestly havent a clue what he was doing, maybe they knew each other and were arsing around?

When I looked in my rear view mirror the cyclist abrupty swung out into the hatched central median.

Either way, thats one sure way to be killed on a 100km/h speed limit, busy road. I was doing 80km/h at the time. You can even see the car infront got a fright as the brake lights came on

CatFromHue wrote: »

crazy stuff from the cyclist, it's defo a cyclist though?

Yep, 100%. Made out what it was at the last second as he passed me. He seemed to be peddalling really hard like he was trying to race the car or something.