Thread: Cameras, cars and cyclists

Originally Posted by gossamer

If it was me riding the bike i wouldn't expect a car stopped at the light to open its door so i would have ridden up there.

The question is, how quickly would you have ridden up there?

Some bike riders would consider the possibility that someone would open their door there and proceed with a bit of extra caution.

It is hard to judge the speed of the cyclist in the original video because the very wide angle lens on action cameras exaggerates the apparent speed towards or away from the camera.

However it does look as if she was travelling fairly quickly, giving herself little chance of avoiding unexpected incidents.

If she had slowed down a little just in case someone opened a door in front of her, it might have cost her a few seconds of her valuable time. If she continues at speed because she knows she is in the right, she risks serious injury.

Which of those two options seems like the sensible course of action?

If it was me riding the bike i wouldn't expect a car stopped at the light to
open its door so i would have ridden up there

I agree as above.
I suggest that you may have a longer riding career if you do expect any car stopped for any reason to have a door opened, even apparently parked cars.

Or even cars stopped in traffic jams in any lane where a passenger can decide that it is quicker for them to walk.
Old motorcycle survivor.

Regards Philip A

I have no beef with commuter treadlies. Getting to & from for a reason is commendable.
What I can't come to terms with is the Lycra Billboard mob who are going nowhere in particular for a good reason.
I live in a rural area with mainly 80-100 speed limits on the main roads in the area.
When you get these groups of riders, I suppose they like to think they're a "Peleton", on these rural roads, with the 1 metre law , any vehicle behind these blokes will have to stay there for up to 10 klms or more or break the law by crossing a double line.
I'd hate to be a truck or bus driver, poor bastards!
I'm sure a lot of people from around Brissie would have encountered these blokes on the Samford-Dayboro, Mt Mee & Mt Glorious roads. Downright dangerous to all involved. I've even come across them behind a bloke (coach?) on a motor scooter all doing about 15-20 kmh in an 100 zone.
Perhaps these people should be limited to roads that suit their vehicle speeds i.e. no public roads with a speed limit above 70 kph.
Steve

New rule for Queensland, you are allowed to cross the white line to overtake bicycles. If safe to do so.
Kenley

Originally Posted by kenleyfred

. If safe to do so.
Kenley

Looks good in writing.
More fodder for the legal leeches, sorry, eagles.

Originally Posted by loneranger

What may surprise you is that you will also film drivers doing stupid things and in some cases even breaking the law as well proving that not only cyclists are morons on the road.

Hop over to the BNA forum and have a look at some of the videos posted on the moron motorists and the moron pedestrians and cyclists threads. Idiots, lawbreakers and morons aren't confined to bikes.

I used to ride a pushbike and a motorbike. On the motorbike in the Sydney Harbor Bridge a woman stopped her car on the top of my right foot. That was how close she was also one a courier moved one of the side mirrors In the pushbike people in cars throw cigarettes buts, beer cans etc on me, so I know how people behave in both cases.
The reason why perhaps will fit a camera is because I do detests people (riders and drivers)when behave like king of the roads and use the camera for litigation purpose. Well I have to protect myself of those kind of people.

Aren't cyclists just motorists that have lost their license?

That's what I tell the cook when we see over weight older blokes struggling along on bikes.
"There's another builders oik that's lost his licence". I say builders oik because most around my way seem to look the type.
AlanH