Near Miss of the Day 420: Instant karma as driver makes close pass on cyclist - and immediately gets pulled over by police officer following him

Could you please point out the excellent cycle provision provided on this particular road?

Any A road ?

What if it is the only road ?

"Perhaps this will deter the morons on both sides of the argument."

You are going to have to explain what argument this is.

Um, maybe they aren't "hanging out" but are travelling from one place to another place?  Is that not allowed in your view?

Why do motorists "hang out on roads"?  They have all those motorways built for them at great expense.

If I want to go to visit family (not something I do much in these lockdown times) the only possible route is via an A-road.  One on which drivers regularly hit 50 or 60mph.  And on which I also regularly see smashed-in road-side fences, knocked-over traffic lights and bollards, screeds of broken windscreen glass, and occasionally cars smashed into garden walls or being lifted out of the road by a crane.

  On one occassion (while walking rather than cycling, fortunately) I witnessed a head-on collission between two vehicles right in front of me - one of which had veered into the oncoming lane, while clearly speeding.

It would be good if all those motorists would stop 'hanging out' on those roads, given they have such trouble with obeying the rules of them.

This is a funny comment to make. I live on a road surrounded by A roads, by your logic I should not be cycling at all as I would have to go on to an A road to get anywhere?

b roads are not even that common where I live and the tarmac on all roads here are a joke. You would see less gravel on dedicated gravel tracks.

The only debatable roads are when A roads become dual carriageways, and not even the whole road but just that 1 small section of it becomes an issue.

Cretinous comment. You’ve obviously never ridden in Scotland where A roads are often a.) the only option and b.) very quiet. Keep the victim blaming to yourself.

you know A roads do pass through villages/towns,often be limited to 30mph and can be only single carriageways ? they arent all the A1.

Maybe there'd be more Froomes around if we had safe access to A roads? You can get from Salisbury to the south coast without having to ride A roads. I sometimes see some pretty fit guys riding the that part of the A338 - I assume they have made an informed choice about that, which I fully respect - so should you, and so should all the car drivers that make it a "fast" road, as people are fond of putting it and I assume is the basis for the point you make.
During the various lockdown phases, I've the wobbly families riding it. Yes - let's re-claim our A roads.  I wonder though if this is based on an informed choice, i.e. taking th3 time and trouble to reada map to find the "yellow" roads that might suit them better.
One thing that came home to me as lockdown ended is how little imagination people have - they head en masse for the nation's top 20 visitor attractions - e.g. Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove. Some kind of herding instinct, or is that the scope of their knowledge? 

how would you go about getting from salisbury to bournemouth beach say? today i was riding past ferndown mcdonalds, towards ringwood way and on the carriageway opposite i saw a roadie, where it has a 70 mph limit. I've seen two other guys on that bit too. I'm quite fast and confident but i wouldnt do that road on a pedal bike if i could avoid it. Jade clark got rammed into at 70 mph when she was going 30 so i wouldnt want anyone to risk it if it can be avoided. Same goes for the cyclist on the spur road who got killed by a van late one night. I went up towards fordingbridge, then up into the forest road, past fighting cocks pub, and then somewhere with lots of ponies. I presume theres a safe ish way to come into the forest area from salisbury, then meander down through fordingbridge, verwood, west moors, ferndown, bournemouth and to the beach? thats as far as my knowledge goes of the forest. 

how would you go about getting from salisbury to bournemouth beach say? today i was riding past ferndown mcdonalds, towards ringwood way and on the carriageway opposite i saw a roadie, where it has a 70 mph limit. I've seen two other guys on that bit too. I'm quite fast and confident but i wouldnt do that road on a pedal bike if i could avoid it. Jade clark got rammed into at 70 mph when she was going 30 so i wouldnt want anyone to risk it if it can be avoided. Same goes for the cyclist on the spur road who got killed by a van late one night. I went up towards fordingbridge, then up into the forest road, past fighting cocks pub, and then somewhere with lots of ponies. I presume theres a safe ish way to come into the forest area from salisbury, then meander down through fordingbridge, verwood, west moors, ferndown, bournemouth and to the beach? thats as far as my knowledge goes of the forest. 

You might want try going to some more rural parts of the UK, where if there is a road, it's an A road, cause it's the only road.

Also, some of us are commuting or riding for other utility purposes, where time contraints mean we want/need to get from A-B on the quickest legal route.

philtregear wrote:

I do not understand why cyclists hang out  on a roads. None of us are chris froome.  I find perfectly good routes on b and c roads with enough tarmac to give me good exercise. That said, i do not understand why any motorust would wilfully endanger the life of anyone else. Iam pleased tonotice that the lockdown has resulted in many families going out for a cycle ride. Perhaps this will deter the morons on both sides of the argument.

You're joking right?

Unbelieveable.

philtregear wrote:

None of us are chris froome.

Not so sure about none of us. I would have thought that Chris Froome is Chris Froome. So that's one of us.

And probably for doing it into oncoming traffic

correct..the pass was fine; stupid click bait title.

Agreed, I saw nothing dangerous in that video.  If the cyclist keeps left, and the car coming the other way moves over a bit, there's always plenty room on all but the tiniest of B roads.

That's some weak trolling. Keep practicing and you'll get there eventually

Probably not, and that's one of the fundamental issues with motorists...there is very little to no education for motorists about cyclist's rights and how to treat them.

Well they couldn't even observe that the car behind had lights on top, blue and yellow paint job and POLICE written across the front, so I very much doubt that awareness of their environment is a strong point.

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Now let's stop knocking the police on here. It doesn't help.

Daveyraveygravey wrote:

Can you imagine if that happened EVERY time?! 

My ride to school every morning has a half mile section of double unbroken white lines (i.e. both directions) and my current record is 9 overtakes. 

Interestingly, on occasion a police car is part of the traffic behind me, and no one even tries to overtake me those mornings, which only goes to demonstrate that some drivers knowingly break the law because they think they will get away with it.