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Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.

This is the real consequences of all those “fun” little jokes about cyclists. I know the ones on here won’t care and prop think this is funny as well which just says a ton about who you are.

The fact you can do this and walk away with a warning is more disturbing than the attack itself.
 
This is the real consequences of all those “fun” little jokes about cyclists. I know the ones on here won’t care and prop think this is funny as well which just says a ton about who you are.

This doesn't happen in other countries. What's so different about the UK? I've been perplexed by this ever since I first went on a road trip abroad. I've never seen anyone even attempt to explain it. What's the root cause? It's not because of our cyclists or our drivers, it's deeper than that, something in our national character. The only comparable thing I've seen is in Germany, where a late middle aged male will try to push you off the road if you overtake illegally on a motorbike. It's related to the furious frowning and tutting you get as a pedestrian if you cross the road before the green man flashes.
 
This doesn't happen in other countries. What's so different about the UK? I've been perplexed by this ever since I first went on a road trip abroad. I've never seen anyone even attempt to explain it. What's the root cause? It's not because of our cyclists or our drivers, it's deeper than that, something in our national character. The only comparable thing I've seen is in Germany, where a late middle aged male will try to push you off the road if you overtake illegally on a motorbike. It's related to the furious frowning and tutting you get as a pedestrian if you cross the road before the green man flashes.

It does happen in every country.
 
This doesn't happen in other countries. What's so different about the UK? I've been perplexed by this ever since I first went on a road trip abroad. I've never seen anyone even attempt to explain it. What's the root cause? It's not because of our cyclists or our drivers, it's deeper than that, something in our national character. The only comparable thing I've seen is in Germany, where a late middle aged male will try to push you off the road if you overtake illegally on a motorbike. It's related to the furious frowning and tutting you get as a pedestrian if you cross the road before the green man flashes.
Cyclists in the UK are simply more incompetent than cyclists anywhere else in the world. Everyone knows that.
 
Lol! Called it didn’t I. All a big joke isn’t it.

What exactly did the cyclists in the video do wrong?

They failed to follow Highway Code rule 169 for a start. Then one of them grabbed hold of the car, for no discernible reason other than to antagonise the driver.
 
It's related to the furious frowning and tutting you get as a pedestrian if you cross the road before the green man flashes.
This doesn't happen in the UK anymore. I remember a friend of mine as a teenager bring an Egyptian friend to London and him running across the road on the red man while everyone looked aghast. These days whenever I'm at a pedestrian crossing with small children every fucker just crosses on the red man and I have to tell my kids they're naughty.
 
This doesn't happen in the UK anymore. I remember a friend of mine as a teenager bring an Egyptian friend to London and him running across the road on the red man while everyone looked aghast. These days whenever I'm at a pedestrian crossing with small children every fucker just crosses on the red man and I have to tell my kids they're naughty.
I’ve had a few in Europe. I once crossed a road in Stockholm, on red that you could see was clear for 100 meters in both directions. A couple of folk on the other side looked at me like I’d just shot their dogs.
 
I’ve had a few in Europe. I once crossed a road in Stockholm, on red that you could see was clear for 100 meters in both directions. A couple of folk on the other side looked at me like I’d just shot their dogs.
Maybe they'd read some of the drivel you post on these boards and it had nothing to do with the lights.
 
Oh dear - a driver (I presume) who doesn’t understand the Highway Code. This is my we need regular retesting.


If you get your information from rags like that one, cloned from the Daily Mirror, then I'm not surprised you don't know what you're talking about. The article is barely coherent and factually incorrect in numerous ways.
 
If you get your information from rags like that one, cloned from the Daily Mirror, then I'm not surprised you don't know what you're talking about. The article is barely coherent and factually incorrect in numerous ways.

Man you’re really doubling down on this (and presumably thinking the cyclist got what he deserved).

How do you interrupt rule 169? Cyclists should pull over for all cars? Really worrying that there are so many ignorant drivers, that’s how we end up with these incidents.

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How do you interrupt rule 169? Cyclists should pull over for all cars?

I interpret it quite easily as its written, that road users should not hold up a long queue of traffic, especially if they are driving a large or slow-moving vehicle. That they should check their mirrors frequently, and if necessary, pull in where it is safe and let traffic pass.

That article you linked to doesn't contradict that interpretation, rather it says this rule is "mostly directed at large and slow moving vehicles which are hard to pass" which is true but doesn't refute the fact that it applies to all vehicle users including cyclists.
 
I interpret it quite easily as its written, that road users should not hold up a long queue of traffic, especially if they are driving a large or slow-moving vehicle. That they should check their mirrors frequently, and if necessary, pull in where it is safe and let traffic pass.
I can't see where in the original story it says that the cyclists had broken this law. There was one vehicle and it was behind them for ninety seconds. How do you know it was safe and appropriate for them to allow him past at this point?
 
I can't see where in the original story it says that the cyclists had broken this law. There was one vehicle and it was behind them for ninety seconds. How do you know it was safe and appropriate for them to allow him past at this point?

This is a Highway Code rule we're talking about, and not the law, the original question being what the cyclist had done wrong, not what law they had broken.

There are ample places to pull over in the video prior to the incident. Places that a tractor would have pulled over but these cyclists refused to use, presumably because like many cyclists they cared more about their perceived entitlements than working with other road users.
 
This is a Highway Code rule we're talking about, and not the law, the original question being what the cyclist had done wrong, not what law they had broken.

There are ample places to pull over in the video prior to the incident. Places that a tractor would have pulled over but these cyclists refused to use, presumably because like many cyclists they cared more about their perceived entitlements than working with other road users.
Sorry, you want the cyclists to come to pull over, come to a stop and let them past? Lol.
 
I can't see where in the original story it says that the cyclists had broken this law. There was one vehicle and it was behind them for ninety seconds. How do you know it was safe and appropriate for them to allow him past at this point?
What a stupid question.
 
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