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Fuck me, you wouldn't get anywhere in a busy city centre if you stopped whenever it got a bit tight and if you wanted to give the full 1.5 metres.

Highway Code is not law; it might be relevant if there had been a collision in apportioning blame, but there was no collision. I think the police should probably not comment on this sort of rabble-rousing Vine guff.

Mito Man wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 10:22 am Fuck me, you wouldn't get anywhere in a busy city centre if you stopped whenever it got a bit tight and if you wanted to give the full 1.5 metres.

1.5m only applies to overtaking, not to passing vehicles going the other way - ridiculous really. It's rule 163.

It’s just all round awkwardness in London, 80% of the time cyclists are going faster than cars. So you’re probably less than a metre from the kerb anyway and dawdling along, a cyclists comes up and undertakes you, you can’t actually move over to the right anymore because the roads are tight. Next thing you know some cvnt has sent it to Jeremy Vine

Mine was that age and cycling in the road but….

I told him when to stop and go, we talked about where he should be when in the car leading up to it, I talked through everything I was looking at when cycling and it was dry on a relatively low traffic area.

Rules are rules but there is no reason to be the right person in the morgue. I think the car was fine because as soon as you teach people to expect something they become less aware.

Dave!

V8Granite wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:35 pm Mine was that age and cycling in the road but….

Dave!

Would you have let them do it on a suburban London street where most of the drivers will not be local to that area, many looking at social media rather than the road ahead, and the remainder focused on 20mph cameras that now go off at 23mph?
I was riding on the road in the 1980s at the age of 5, but my kids will be staying on the pavement for a while longer (6 1/2 and 4 1/2 now).

Rich B wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:52 am My boy is 5, I still get jittery walking on pavements when cars go past a bit fast.

Mine are 12 and 13 and I still walk between them and the road when we're out. Doesn't get many views and likes though.

mik wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 8:23 am
Posting mainly because Jeremy Vile used the term “petrosexual”.

I was disappoint not to find a "I've got an electric car, would it have been ok in that?" type post

Oh, lols. Can anyone still see the original tweet?

tim wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:47 pm Oh, lols. Can anyone still see the original tweet?

No, it was hidden for me when I saw your reply appear on Twitter. What did it say?

Jobbo wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:55 pm

tim wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:47 pm Oh, lols. Can anyone still see the original tweet?

No, it was hidden for me when I saw your reply appear on Twitter. What did it say?

It was a video of one of these vigilante pretend policeman types carelessly cycling into opposing traffic to tell off some woman who was blatently using her phone. And then a follow-up video of him doing it again *to the same woman* an hour later.

Always screenshot, then respond.

Jimexpl wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:22 pm

V8Granite wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:35 pm Mine was that age and cycling in the road but….

Dave!

Would you have let them do it on a suburban London street where most of the drivers will not be local to that area, many looking at social media rather than the road ahead, and the remainder focused on 20mph cameras that now go off at 23mph?
I was riding on the road in the 1980s at the age of 5, but my kids will be staying on the pavement for a while longer (6 1/2 and 4 1/2 now).

The roads we do it on have much fewer obstacles to navigate.

I don’t agree with cycling on pavements near us though as they are too narrow.

Dave!

tim wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:57 pm

Jobbo wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:55 pm

tim wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 3:47 pm Oh, lols. Can anyone still see the original tweet?

No, it was hidden for me when I saw your reply appear on Twitter. What did it say?

It was a video of one of these vigilante pretend policeman types carelessly cycling into opposing traffic to tell off some woman who was blatently using her phone. And then a follow-up video of him doing it again *to the same woman* an hour later.

This just popped up in my feed. Sounds like CyclingMikey from YouTube.

He blocked me. What a bell.

Beany wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:09 pm Always screenshot, then respond.

A video? I knew you were extra but even so....

tim wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:06 pm He blocked me. What a bell.

Which, the one you posted above? I can't see it either.

I have re-twatted his twattery. Follow me bro. Like n share etc.

tim wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 9:18 pm

Beany wrote: Tue Nov 08, 2022 6:09 pm Always screenshot, then respond.

A video? I knew you were extra but even so....

I am extra. Extra special.

We don't discuss the definition of 'special'.