When are cyclists going to be dealt with properly?

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  1. Fat Controller

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    I am utterly fed up with motorists being continually painted as the bad guys, particularly when it comes to accidents between any motor vehicle and a bicycle. Yes, there are bad drivers on the roads, and yes there are also those who make genuine errors that can have serious consequences, but it is high time that the cycling lobby and transport authorities realise that cyclists are equally responsible for the issues that arise on our roads, and they too should be dealt with legally.

    My frustration with this has reached such a point that I have this evening done something that I never thought I would do, and that is create a YouTube channel where I intend to post videos highlighting some of the exceptionally poor behaviour that I see day in and day out on our roads.

    The audio on this, my first fully public YouTube video, has been muted due to conversation and music in the car.

     
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      Seems you found the "boy racer" of the cyclists there FC :hate-shocked:
       
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        There yar FC, you've got your first youtube subscriber.
         
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          You mean, you were not only listening to the radio but talking to a passenger as well.
          Sounds like a hanging offence to me.:biggrin:
           
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            Thanks @clueless1 - I must admit, I am very new to the whole video making thing and probably won't be uploading masses as I tend to traverse the same roads day in and day out, but I also think that it might be interesting even as a sort of diary of the sheer number of things happening.

            It is all very spur of the moment really, but I suppose I could show the good the bad and the ugly of motorists and cyclists alike?
             
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              I was actually swearing like a trooper about the eejit on the bike, and muttering something about natural selection @pete..... :biggrin:

              I am quite sure that if PC plod were to view the video, it would somehow be my fault for the cyclists behaviour and then he would go off to devise some new tax to hit motorists with.....
               
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                Dunno. I only ever did one youtube video myself, but took it down again the next morning when sober :)

                It's up to you how you go about it. If you just post the odd video, probably only those that you tell about it will see it, but I believe that if you do a few, and get likes and subscriptions, then your videos will start to show up in the recommended ones. Eventually you might even start getting dosh, if adverts get embedded but I'm not sure how that works.
                 
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                  Was it you who commented @clueless1?

                  I'm not intending it to go all huge with adverts and stuff - I seriously doubt that there would be that many people interested in videos I upload :biggrin:; it is a handy way to share videos with family and friends though.
                   
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                    Cracked it - got some music going onto it now, makes it seem a bit better than just mute
                     
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                      No.

                      EDIT: Looks like someone promoting their own channel by commenting everywhere, this circulating their name. Seems to be a music video channel featuring infeasibly finely crafted womenfolk.
                       
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                        Aye, I have subscribed in case I need copyright free music in the future, but I have a feeling that I will stick to the YouTube stuff as they make it kinda easy.
                         
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                          Here's a clip of the police getting involved

                           
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                            Send a copy to your police force or put it up on facebook and link to police :snorky:
                             
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                            Good morning @fat controller this morning a phy(co)list decided to try and overtake Woo on the inside as he was turning left:dunno: after that another phy(co)list came off the path between to parked cars out of nowhere ,both were wearing these thingymajigs:heehee: in their ears obviously listening to music or on the phone,what do I know about what was in their ears,but I do know what their heads are full of:poo::lunapic 130165696578242 5:
                             
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                              One thing FC, the bi-cycle person on moblie phone, looking at the video he/she was in more controll when using the moblie than when he/she wasn't on the phone

                              had to go into town this morning and was following a big tractor and trailor, in one village with we have to drive through on main A road has problems with speeders (40mph) well, the tractor/trailor put on the flashing warning lights that come on to warn you that you are over the 40 mph limit :yikes::yikes::yikes::yikes: by the way the legel speed limit for tractor is 25mph
                               
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