Thread: Inconsiderate Land Rover driver.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Cyclist falls off bicycle as Land Rover Defender passes her on country lane | Daily Mail Online

I think it's more the incompetence of the cyclist than inconsiderate driving by the Defender. The two other bikes had no issues.

Agree incompetent cyclist, but what about the tractor ramming the defender?

Some people should NEVER take the traning wheels off their pushbikes

Training wheels you say? A rider of that skill level would likely still manage to fall off an exercycle in their lounge!

He wasn't a metre away so in NSW would have been fined under similar circumstances.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by PhilipA

He wasn't a metre away so in NSW would have been fined under similar circumstances.
Regards PhilipA

You don't have roads that skinny in NSW.
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.

Maybe if she hadn't turned around to abuse the driver she wouldn't have fallen off. That is her hand in the air with her head-mounted camera fully facing directly back down the road, isn't it?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Cyclist falls off bicycle as Land Rover Defender passes her on country lane | Daily Mail Online

I think it's more the incompetence of the cyclist than inconsiderate driving by the Defender. The two other bikes had no issues.

Pommy coppers OMG not a hope I'd side with the lady who fell off - Room for the front and rear bike who had no issue seems a very very tough fine in my view.


I like the one Meter rule here for overtaking. Passing on very narrow roads with room for both is not failing. Grumpy police and clearly self righteous pommy bike riders

Speaking as a regular commuting cyclist ...... he was going too fast and too close on what was a very narrow road (at the start of the video I thought that it was a bike path), but she fell over because she came to a stop suddenly and didn't release her cleats. Lack of experience I'd suspect.

I did that on Around the Bay one time because a mechanic had just over-tightened my cleats and they wouldn't release, and a cyclist near me looked at me and said "how embarrassing" and rode off.

The UK is all over the place on bike/car interactions - a driver who killed a cyclist recently got a slap on the wrist.

Here's a few others:

Near Miss of the Day 737: Overtaking van driver beeps at cyclist and swerves at him ... but only gets a warning letter | road.cc