Triathlete urges drivers to "think twice" after shocking dashcam footage shows moment bike was catapulted into the air from collision

Yes, as someone in a tri position is normallty tucked in and hands are on the centre bars. His was wide so on the outer bars where the brakes are. 

So fuck off with the type of bike led to the situation antics you and him are trying to make with this. 

The whole situation is down to a driver deciding they are too privelged to want to go the proper way around a mini island as it is too slow to do that and why have a car if you have to go slow. Of course, as been mentioned many many times, you have no problems with this self same illegal and dangerous driving so have to blame the cyclist in some way in the same way juries of drivers seem to be less likely to find someone guilty of dangerous driving. 

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maybe I should collect every time you tell someone to fuck off and use it as a sig.

nicmason wrote:

maybe I should collect every time you tell someone to fuck off and use it as a sig.

Tellng people to fuck off on an internet forum isn't against the law (not that I can recall ASQ doing it much) and doesn't risk killing people; driving the wrong way round a traffic island just because you've decided it's not in the right place, as you admit you do, is and does.

Your ability to drive exactly to the highway code in every situation is matched only by your dishonesty in claiming such.

Weird for someone so adamant the cyclist didn't follow the highway code but the car driver did in most videos  on here seems to state it is now ok for cars to not follow the highway code as everyone does it. Of couse it normally means someone is either going to be seriously hurt or be very close to being that when cars decide mini roundabouts are just pretty pictures on the road. But still it is the other persons fault for it as they should have done better. 

I didnt say the cyclist didnt follow the highway code. But I do say he reacted poorly to what was happening in front of him .

And my earlier reply also applies to you.

Your ability to drive exactly to the highway code in every situation is matched only by your dishonesty in claiming such.

I know I don't perform dangerous illegal manouvres everytime I approach a mini roundabout. You are acting like it is just a recomended part of the highway code like giving a cyclist room or wearing hi viz. You have freely admitted to being a fuckwit on the road because you would be inconvenienced to slow down and take them legally. 

Is that a little bit of sunlight on the ground between your legs ?

Anyway end of this thread for me I think.

Bye then.

I hope you honour your word more than Nigel.

So someone who literally comes on each thread to claim how superior they are on the road in all circumstances then any other cyclist and how the car driver is absolved of every blame is claiming I'm superior because I don't drive around mini roundabouts in the most dangerous way possible?

Wow.

not sure but this might be a clip of nicmason driving at a mini roundabout https://youtu.be/xIKfdiEl9Ys?t=252

Same video but a few mins later

https://youtu.be/xIKfdiEl9Ys?t=483

Yeah i saw that..... shocking bad driving by the driver - from the comments it was a hit and run and is in the hands of the police

Is that the cyclist at snout 8'10 in?  Yes awful and as others pointed out in the comments, side windows looked like they had condensation on so pretty good chance the front just had a peering space allowed. Hence the direct line take out. 

Yes, plenty of Nic's driving in those videos over the weeks and plenty of people with your experiences on taking mini roundabouts where Nic's think because you haven't cut the corner, you must be going straight on as well. 

lets get this straight nicmason..... you are preaching to people here about how you mitigate risk on the road......all the while saying you actively endanger other people on the road by going the wrong way round islands?

whats the word I'm looking for...... oh yes hypocrite.

Ahh yes its the end of the thread for you because you have shown your true colours that you expect cyclists to be held to a higher standard as motorists and that you are happy to break the rules in your car because other people do.

I've had plenty of near misses at mini roundabouts in my car because I use them properly, but because other people choose not to use them properly they assume that I am just signalling incorrectly.

I'm off this but that has to be the funniest thing Ive read today.

"I've had plenty of near misses at mini roundabouts in my car because I use them properly, but because other people choose not to use them properly they assume that I am just signalling incorrectly."

If you have lots of near misses your are the common factor in all of them

Nope nic, he probably is using them properly but comes across you and your ilk also arriving at the same time and wanting to just cut across the wrong way. 

nicmason wrote:

I'm off this but that has to be the funniest thing Ive read today.

"I've had plenty of near misses at mini roundabouts in my car because I use them properly, but because other people choose not to use them properly they assume that I am just signalling incorrectly."

If you have lots of near misses your are the common factor in all of them

Ahh right, so it's my fault that when I come to a mini roundabout with 3 exits, that when I am indicating right to take the 3rd exit, but go round the roundabout instead of doing what you advocate in driving over it and people at the 2nd exit decide that because I have not cut the roundabout I am not going to the 3rd exit?

Funnily enough that is nothing to do with my ability to drive but their inability to drive

I guess on the road you are a man with a fork in a world of soup.

nicmason wrote:

I guess on the road you are a man with a fork in a world of soup.

No I am just someone that knows how to drive unlike you.

But again your response tracks.... try to victim blame me for having near misses because other people can't drive

You are not a man of his word then.

your word. But now I am

nicmason wrote:

Your ability to drive exactly to the highway code in every situation is matched only by your dishonesty in claiming such.

Good job I didn't claim that then - be odd if I had seeing as I don't drive. But what I don't ever do on a bike is decide I have a right to ignore traffic law because I've decided it's "wrong", as you freely admit you do.

Please do. I mean if I was espousing how you shouldn't use coarse language it might actually mean something. But you are the one defending bad driving multiple times and claims you are great at everything on the road but then admit you drive the wrong way on a roundabout because you do it all the time near you on multiple locations. 
 

Could you start a campaign for people to permit the use of these things in time trials / triathalons?  Hands will always be on the brakes. As a safety feature, they are arguably safer than standard bikes - excellent braking, hit things feet first, less far to fall in a crash. Additional benefits - extremely aero while giving you a far better view. (Having ridden a few types I'd add that they're more comfy too but that might dissuade your target audience).

Ridden with a cricket box if you're really concerned...

Big flag?  To many people you'll look odd enough without. The other ones are going "cooool!". In my experience visibility is only a problem in that people drive alongside you pointing their cameras. And we have all experienced the "looking straight into their eyes and knowing that they can't see you" - being something strange-looking can only improve that. I wouldn't position right in front of / beside a truck at the lights.  But I won't do that on anything smaller than an elephant and even then you're risking it.

Nigel Garrage wrote:

Apparently they work wonders for men with impotence...

I've certainly had some strange looks from them.

Nic, no matter what you ever post now, my reply answer will contain this admission that you regularly drive dangerously because other people happen to as well. So you are happy to appriach a mini roundabout and go around it the wrong way, hence happy with her driving. 

After all, your first post on this subject was blaming the cyclist as the car was "first on the roundabout" and the cyclist needed to give way to people coming from the right.

There is a difference between vigorous chat and simply being contrarian or making stuff up such as claiming the cyclist didn't brake.

Reading your comments it is as if no one else on here criticises cyclists for their roadcraft whereas this happens regularly. In fact, on the recent one where the driver turned between traffic I posted that I agreed with you that the cyclist should have been more cautious.

hirsute wrote:

Reading your comments it is as if no one else on here criticises cyclists for their roadcraft whereas this happens regularly. In fact, on the recent one where the driver turned between traffic I posted that I agreed with you that the cyclist should have been more cautious.

I agree if a cyclist is in the wrong then the vast majority of people on here would criticse the cyclists road craft to varying extent.  I would however add that I would tend to consider what effect the change in roacraft would have had.

To use the example of the car cutting through the gap in traffic, I doubt anything other than the cyclist significantly reducing their speed coupled with moving being on the left of the lane would have made any difference.  

If they reduced their speed there would still have been a chance that the crash would have happened.  If they were at the left of the lane, I doubt the car would have stopped or even seen the cyclist as they would have been obscured by the door pillar and even given the better line of sight for the cyclist the relative speed of the cyclist would still have meant a collision in my opinion.