pimmo2000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=ESo0Ig9fJ3A

Comes up from the middle lane and under takes a moving car in traffic, whilst sat in the middle of the road.

g7prs

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I was about to say no different to what motorbikes do everyday but then he twated the mirror off

Myles

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Ballsy comment to make on this site Pimmo!

alcazar

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I don't condone what the cyclist does, but the driver asks for it.
He could have let the cyclist go, they guy wouldn't have held him up at all.

LSherratt

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That's stupid as hell. This is why cyclists have such a bad name and why they don't do themselves any favours because they're so touchy and picky about how they should be respected and treated as a vehicle.

I can see that yes, the silver car was probably in the wrong and may have accidently not seen the cyclist in that busy traffic, but there was NO NEED for the tw@t to punch his mirror off and then cycle away. He could have just left it but that's probably gonna be a £300 repair for a new mirror now...

If I was in the car, I would have chased him down the road but it was possibly a woman driving and didn't know how to react.

andy97

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That driver was a tw@t. A few seconds earlier he was rubbing panels with another car. He deserved it.

Myles

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The mirror is no great loss, he didnt seem to use it!

ScoobySteve69

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But you`re right. It`s exactly what they do!

As for the cyclist, that`s how you filter through traffic. No good being alongside the kerb, too dangerous. Not sure why he hit the mirror though

CREWJ

This ^

Jamescsti

No need to knock the mirror off but before the cyclist appeared I thought the silver car had hit the other car too, very bad driving, probably doesn't need the mirror. Lol

Shaid

What a ****!

Not to worry karma can Be a bitch. Tomorrow someone will rip his a new ****.

tony de wonderful

Hmm so sympathy with a bus driver for attempted murder but vilification of a cyclist who flips someones mirror off?

Paulo P

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The car driver was a ***** and they were being forceful with a cyclist who could have made his way through the traffic. I don't condone what the cyclist did but the car driver deserved it after he even hit another car trying to block the cyclist from passing him.

TonyBurns

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have to say that this seems right, even when the cyclist says "hey im here", the driver continues to force themselves across the lane and squeeze the cyclist, quite funny really, does serve the car driver right in one way, aggression gets you no where

davegtt

LOL Good on the cyclist. Looked to me every car on that road were driving pretty badly. Didnt look to be a UK road though, more lik Eastern European and theyre all crap drivers anyway so its to be expected

rbaz

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You don’t see what happened before but from what we do see the car driver needed a kick up the **** or the loss of a mirror for trying to block the bike
If I had been in the black car would be giving him some grief too

bioforger

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Agreed car driver was an asshat, thread can be closed.

Paulo P

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It's not like the car could weave it's way through that traffic, the bike could. I know bikers can be tossers and don't obey lights etc but in this case he was simply moving through traffic at slow speed.

riiidaa

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they were both ********, and the cyclist should know better than to smash a mirror - maybe his 7 years bad luck will involve being run over by a vehicle with no working mirror

Paulo P

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You're right but see it from the cyclists point of view where a car driver is prepared to drive into another car to stop you pass let alone a bike! The cyclist should have just have accepted it and moved on but that was his mistake, there is no place for that and it was vandalism!

I went to Farnborough air show a few years ago and some tosser was driving so close to the car in front to avoid letting anyone out that they hit it up the **** I had to laugh because all they did was make themselves look a complete ***** and cause damage to both cars.

At the end of the day it's not worth it but cyclists are more vulnerable than car drivers. I'm mostly a car driver but I can see both sides of the coin from my little time on a mountain bike.

pimmo2000

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The driver needs a slap .. but I never condone damaging someone's car ..

zip106

Never mind all the cars ignoring the people waiting at the zebra crossing, right at the beginning.

Beef

This.

urban

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It must have been a very fragile mirror to come off with such ease

Myles

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Totally agree. You take yourself across the line from sinned against to total sinner. The original sin would most probably be forgotten.

Blue by You

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Agreed 100% they were both in the wrong.
Break somebody's car and run away? Isn't that classed as scumbag vandalism in other circumstances?

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Criminal damage in this country...



I weave in and out of traffic all the time, make gaps that could be classed as reckless/risky, ride down the outside of traffic etc etc. Its at my risk and I accept that. I will still get angry if someone changes lane or hangs a right/left without indicating or like the muppet last night on OKR who hooted at me because I was in the middle of the (inside) lane overtaking another cyclist, then tried to push me in as he overtook engine revving madly, or any other reckless, deliberate or stupid manouevre that puts my personal safety at risk and out of my control.

Don't think I would resort to taking his mirror off though as when faced with a situation of a car driver turning right across my front whilst he was talking on the phone then shouted at me 'cos all cyclists jump red lights (they were green!) and I had a u-lock in my hand, all I did was tap it on his rear window as opposed to smash it through the driver's one as others might have...

Blue by You

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Bravo!

r32

Live and let live, the biker wouldnt have caused the silver car any problems, but then again there was no need to damage the vehicle.

But I cycle, I dont go through red lights and ride as best as I can but everytime I go out I have a very near miss due to inconsiderate drivers.

They say the best car drivers are motorcyclists.

Tidgy

lol, where was that? not the UK i don't think.