Inconsiderate Land Rover driver.

Did you notice that the vehicle had L plates. That will have counted against them in court but may also explain some of what happened.

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Originally Posted by 3toes

Did you notice that the vehicle had L plates. That will have counted against them in court but may also explain some of what happened.

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By the look of things, the 'L' plates were on the wrong vehicle!

As a cyclist myself I can't see anything wrong with how the Defender passed those bikes.

Maybe if the lady in the rear didn't scream it wouldn't have panicked the lady who fell in the ditch.

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Originally Posted by FisherX

As a cyclist myself I can't see anything wrong with how the Defender passed those bikes.

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Well, other than it was very close and very fast.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well, other than it was very close and very fast.

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Perhaps the cyclists were too close and too slow?
Really, isn't it easier for a treadly to get off the road, rather than an automobile (going by the video, it is![smilebigeye]) and more environmentally friendly too, with no excess use of an internal combustion engine slowing and then burning fuel to get back up to speed?

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Originally Posted by Saitch

Perhaps the cyclists were too close and too slow?
Really, isn't it easier for a treadly to get off the road, rather than an automobile (going by the video, it is![smilebigeye]) and more environmentally friendly too, with no excess use of an internal combustion engine slowing and then burning fuel to get back up to speed?

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You think that Land Rovers should stay on sealed roads?

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

You think that Land Rovers should stay on sealed roads?

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Not at all! But cyclists cycling, just for the sake of cycling, on roads like that? Meh.
Going by the audio on the clip, I doubt whether the ladies were off to help the vicar clean the local church.

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Originally Posted by Arapiles

Well, other than it was very close and very fast.

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Judging the actual speed of an approaching or departing vehicle in a movie is very difficult unless you know the focal length of the camera lens.

Film makers often make good use of the way a wide angle lens exaggerates the speed at which something approaches the camera. A telephoto lens has the opposite effect. The car chase from "Bullit" is a brilliant example of that.

Most GoPro style action cameras have a wide angle lens. So the speed of the Defender is most likely much slower than that video clip suggests.

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Originally Posted by trout1105

You don't have roads that skinny in NSW.[biggrin]
Here in the West even the bike lanes are wider that skinny lttle lane so old mate in the defender had nowhere to go to give the bikes 1m clearance.
Pretty entitled behaviour by both the cyclists and the defender driver as far as I am concerned as the defender could have slowed down and the cyclists could have pulled up as well and if a fine is warrented then both parties should have coped a fine.

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The cyclists weren't endangering the Land Rover. He'd've been up for it in Victoria as well.

It's astonishing - and a measure of how clueless a lot of people are - that there were people on social media saying that it was OK because he hadn't actually come into contact with the cyclists, as if that was the issue: if he had even brushed them they'd've been seriously injured or dead. I've been hit a couple of times by cars and the last time I was hit I was thrown metres through the air (over a car, over a fire hydrant 3 or 4 metres away, miraculously going between two trees and not into them ...) and my bike was destroyed. That's a Land Rover 90 which would weigh about 1.8 tonnes - and if something that weight, and going that speed hit what are basically pedestrians then the result is not going to be the equivalent of a car park bingle.

quote..You think that Land Rovers should stay on sealed roads?

good question in that 99% of Land Rovers I ever see are on sealed roads.