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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!feeder.news-service.com!69.16.177.246.MISMATCH!cyclone03.ams2.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!npeersf01.ams.highwinds-media.com!newsfe25.ams2.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Message-ID:  From: _  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: spindthrift - magnatom antics Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:15:48 +0000 References:   	  <2d97dc31-fadb-4c58-a330-ea39e8e04c52@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2d97dc31-fadb-4c58-a330-ea39e8e04c52@u18g2000pro.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.21.204.127 X-Complaints-To: http://netreport.virginmedia.com X-Trace: newsfe25.ams2 1233666963 82.21.204.127 (Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:16:03 UTC) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:16:03 UTC Organization: virginmedia.com Bytes: 3309 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:684852

james.annan@gmail.com wrote: > On Feb 3, 8:26 pm, JNugent  wrote: >> JNugent wrote: >>> AndyC wrote: >>>> "relevant"  wrote: >>>>> Here is a letter I have sent - perhaps a few more on similar lines >>>> [big snip] >>>> I notice on this one: >>>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7drPCPfWCIQ >>>> He admits to his mistake of not using the whole lane to overtake, but >>>> he misses the fact that he overtook a car that was indicating to >>>> change lane. While that is commonly done by aggressive drivers, if you >>>> do that on two wheels it is suicidal. >>>> If you are going to overtake a car that is already indicating, whether >>>> stationary or not, you do so at your own peril. Rights of way are >>>> meaningless when you are dead. >>> In his video "Undertaking On A Roundabout", the same poster castigates a >>> car-driver who passes him on the nearside on a large roundabout. The >>> roundabout seems to be the one seen in the video referenced in the OP >>> and the cyclist is way over to the offside, hard up against the island >>> (incidentally passing over a distinctive hatched-off area). >>> Perhaps he thinks that it is unlawful to pass on the nearside on a >>> roundabout (it isn't). And if one really objects to being "undertaken", >>> perhaps it'd be btter not to hog the offside edge of the one-way stretch >>> of road which is the carriageway of a large roundabout. >> Another of his videos ("White van-driver teaches me a lesson") appears to be >> functionally identical to the one involving the private hire car - recorded >> over the same route, in the same sort of conditions and almost at the same spot. >> >> Different motor vehicle, different driver, same cyclist. >> >> Anyone spot a pattern here? > > Can you suggest any faults in his cycling in that video? (Apart from > maybe going into a hatched area on the roundabout.) > > James Yes. He's an aggressive knobhead.