reohn2 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:Me too. Not sure why it merited the pre-broadcast headlines.
It just serves to rack up the antagonism
Drivers came off worse, by far, surely?
reohn2 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:Me too. Not sure why it merited the pre-broadcast headlines.
It just serves to rack up the antagonism
Bonefishblues wrote:reohn2 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:Me too. Not sure why it merited the pre-broadcast headlines.
It just serves to rack up the antagonism
Drivers came off worse, by far, surely?
Bonefishblues wrote:I thought it signally failed to make the case tbh.
reohn2 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:I thought it signally failed to make the case tbh.
From a fair and honest perspective I would agree,the problem being the motorists perspective isn't always a fair and honest one,predominantly it's a selfish one from a position of power.
I experience this whenever I use the roads both as a cyclist and a driver,displayed in close overtakes,overtakes against a right hand turn signal,overtakes on blind bends,and other dangerous manoeuvres by motorists with regard to myself and other cyclists.
Bonefishblues wrote:I thought it signally failed to make the case tbh.
AjJay wrote:Well I saw up to the first commercial break....
It was getting me so angry, that I just could not see any more and judging by the most recent postings, looks like my guess was correct and I don't want to see it now.
There was something said by one of the taxi drivers, something about us being in swarms. Well what are motorists doing! Look on any road and there are swarms of them. Definitely a skewed perspective, as another poster put. And as for the other comment about watching out for the "racing cyclists", well that's what motorists do; are we supposed to go no faster than walking pace?
Getting angry again, so I'll stop there. Fume!
Bonefishblues wrote:reohn2 wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:I thought it signally failed to make the case tbh.
From a fair and honest perspective I would agree,the problem being the motorists perspective isn't always a fair and honest one,predominantly it's a selfish one from a position of power.
I experience this whenever I use the roads both as a cyclist and a driver,displayed in close overtakes,overtakes against a right hand turn signal,overtakes on blind bends,and other dangerous manoeuvres by motorists with regard to myself and other cyclists.
I'm luckier in that I'm away from urban streets, but there's still an odd one. I find much more discourtesy and danger car-on-car in my everyday life.
Bonefishblues wrote:AjJay wrote:Well I saw up to the first commercial break....
It was getting me so angry, that I just could not see any more and judging by the most recent postings, looks like my guess was correct and I don't want to see it now.
There was something said by one of the taxi drivers, something about us being in swarms. Well what are motorists doing! Look on any road and there are swarms of them. Definitely a skewed perspective, as another poster put. And as for the other comment about watching out for the "racing cyclists", well that's what motorists do; are we supposed to go no faster than walking pace?
Getting angry again, so I'll stop there. Fume!
You should watch it all - there was a deal of 'anti-car driver' material later, plus input from police.
mattheus wrote:Bonefishblues wrote:AjJay wrote:Well I saw up to the first commercial break....
It was getting me so angry, that I just could not see any more and judging by the most recent postings, looks like my guess was correct and I don't want to see it now.
There was something said by one of the taxi drivers, something about us being in swarms. Well what are motorists doing! Look on any road and there are swarms of them. Definitely a skewed perspective, as another poster put. And as for the other comment about watching out for the "racing cyclists", well that's what motorists do; are we supposed to go no faster than walking pace?
Getting angry again, so I'll stop there. Fume!
You should watch it all - there was a deal of 'anti-car driver' material later, plus input from police.
I watched about 10mins (after the Tour highlights, obvs!) - perhaps the 3rd quarter? Mainly the West Mids police bike guy; he was excellent, which didn't surprise me based on the stuff coming out of that force in the past year or two :thumbsup:
The cycling vigilante-camera guy was er ... interesting. he wasn't the perfect advert for activism (not everyone has Chris Boardmans media training and communication skills), but when you watched what he did, every single offender shown on film was indeed plainly guilty of a traffic offence! So good luck to him, I say.
So THAT SEGMENT probably did more good than harm, in my view.