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And the relevance of this? (presuming it's true)

Meanwhile why not tell us what you are doing personally to highlight or improve the standard of driving on our roads?

Relevant as the article is about Cycling Mikey? I can dig the tweets out for you if you like?

As for what I'm doing to improve the standard of cycling on our roads, when I'm on two wheels or four, I'm abiding by the rules of the road. 

You're abiding by the rules? Well I guess it's a start, and better than every single lawbreaker that Mikey reports to the police.

But him blocking you on twitter is not pertinent as far as I can tell. My MP blocks many of his constituents for daring to ask questions about his behaviour. I find that rather more concerning.

Instead of whining on here about it (which could be seen as an attack on his character) perhaps consider that Mikey just might not need your input in his timeline. You could always stop viewing his tweets and move onto other things. Plenty more fish in the twitter sea.

Yes, I can't do my job if I can't drive, so I value my licence, and abide by the rules.

I don't follow him on Twitter (he did follow me until he blocked me), I can't see what he posts on Twitter (and really couldn't care less about reading his posts), but I guess that you could take it as a reflection on his character (not an attack), that he blocks people that don't agree with his rather narrow view on subjects. I tend not to get drawn into arguments on Twitter, but he took offence at me saying that a group of cyclists wheelying down a busy road were a danger to themselves and other road users. 

Would you consider yourself in total control of your bicycle if you were wheelying down the road? 

Nagai74 wrote:

Yes, I can't do my job if I can't drive, so I value my licence, and abide by the rules.

I don't follow him on Twitter (he did follow me until he blocked me), I can't see what he posts on Twitter (and really couldn't care less about reading his posts), but I guess that you could take it as a reflection on his character (not an attack), that he blocks people that don't agree with his rather narrow view on subjects. I tend not to get drawn into arguments on Twitter, but he took offence at me saying that a group of cyclists wheelying down a busy road were a danger to themselves and other road users. 

Would you consider yourself in total control of your bicycle if you were wheelying down the road? 

Personally, I'm not concerned with his character - he's documenting poor driving and enhancing road safety by doing so which is good enough for me.

I don't think wheelying groups of cyclists are much of a concern - I've never heard of anyone injured by them and I'd guess that most collisions involve a bit of bruising and not much else. I used to ride a unicycle (on roads and pavements) and that's very similar to wheelying and I was very much in control. It's one of those things that you can't really do accidentally for any length of time. The closest I came to a collision was when I was on a pavement and a 5-6 year old decided to run towards me - instant controlled dismount from me (step off and catch the seat behind you in a fluid movement) and the parent apologised (not that they needed to).

If you abide by the rules then you have no fear of what anyone does with camera footage of you, whatever you're doing.

I think that many drivers know that they're very unlikely to bump into a police car on the road, so have no problem with jumping red lights/close passes, etc.

Oh but don't you know Boy George was redeemed, by going on telly, wearing hats and talking about singing. This is all part of Guy's 'arc.'

mdavidford wrote:

Eggscrutiating.

I was going to learn French, but only got as far as learning the word for an egg. I think that's an oeuf.

hawkinspeter wrote:

mdavidford wrote:

Eggscrutiating.

I was going to learn French, but only got as far as learning the word for an egg. I think that's an oeuf.

Why are French bread thieves never caught?

They're painstaking.

Notbuilt2climb wrote:

If you choose to break the law and get caught (no matter how it was detected or reported), face the consequences, learn and adjust your behaviour. Don't get angry.

Exactly.  To all those motorists who claim that speed cameras are just out to get them and its a tax on the Hard Pressed Motorist (TM) or part of the War On The Motorist (also TM) - here's a tip: just don't break the speed limit!

You're going to spit blood when you find out about speed camera and CCTV...

Perhaps I can ask for my other 2051 posts to be taken into consideration.

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I love a good bit of snitching!

Riding to work this morning (un-furloughed) and I had a scaffolding truck overtake me on the dual-carriageway section of the A370 in Weston-super-Mare and the passenger was shouting and gesticulating at me as they passed (didn't hear or care what he was saying). Just looked up the number plate and it's registered as SORN and no MOT details.

If you're going to have a dodgy vehicle, then maybe you should not attract the attention of others.

Edit: Have now submitted to A&S police.

If you do, I hope as a penance, you will be cycling up Vale St many times to give yourself a stitch.

hirsute wrote:

If you do, I hope as a penance, you will be cycling up Vale St many times to give yourself a stitch.

I think it'll be my legs that give out first.

hawkinspeter wrote:

I love a good bit of snitching!

Just looked up the number plate and it's registered as SORN and no MOT details.

Edit: Have now submitted to A&S police.

If it was Lancashire, you could expect no action or response whatsoever- that comment would have been completely justified until this morning. While I was out the Lancashire F***h came round and put a card through my door. Suddenly, there's now an emergency about a couple of offences committed on 13th February and reported online the next day, "because Covid has affected the courts". Suddenly they have to have a statement and the  video, although there was previously no contact about the case and I assumed it was simply filed in the bin as usual. I think it's a con, and I don't see how this court action can possibly occur at this stage. The incident was over a month before the lockdown etc. You can't trust or believe them!

To be charitable to them, maybe they're improving their handling of these offences and they're now catching up with the backlog.

So did it happen, and was it your vehicle, and were you driving, and did you go over the speed limit? Forgive me if I got wrong end of stick. But in that case doesn't that mean you are telling us all you did it and (we hope) you are going to cough up and not do it again. I guess you must have a speedometer or an intelligent speed adaptation device in your vehicle to prevent such instances. And by the way, how many cases of speeding have you had "Simply filed in the bin as usual" before this instance?

Not to mention you seem to be driving over double lines, which is not allowed I think. So isn't that two offences in one? Sweet!! What where you thinking of that day?

I'm pretty sure you have got the wrong end of the stick - wtjs is the one with the camera, not the one driving the car.