You got a F***ing death wish?

highlandsflyer":3hg3gru4 said:

I am just looking from the perspective of a motorcyclist and experienced road cyclist. (Something I now avoid.)

I think with the increasing number of videos being posted of riding 'incidents' it is as well to critique each other's riding as well as chiming in with agreement of how we are all being wronged by drivers.

Just assume you have not been seen and always expect vehicles to pull out on you. If anything, avoid eye contact, and never assume it means your position is going to be respected.

It has seen me through thirty plus years of riding motorbikes and cycles.

Oh, and don't go round the back of vehicles if you can help it. I myself have grabbed reverse by accident when pulling off. Don't want to be a couple of feet behind a vehicle negotiating a junction.

As far as the original incident in this thread goes, I can tell the cyclist adopted a defensive position at the point they did, but perhaps they could have done so earlier as they were approaching a narrowing in the lane. Easy for me to say.

The video evidence would lead me to believe a charge of some kind could have been levelled at the occupants of the vehicle, such as threatening behaviour.

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