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BlodadTand wrote:

For you lot thinking it's fake check out the source video here. It was captured on a 360 camera so you can pan around.

That's a much better link.

That is a very composed cyclist!

I downloaded it, but it's a bit distorted when played as a straight video. Even so, this shot is terrifying:

hawkinspeter wrote:

BlodadTand wrote:

For you lot thinking it's fake check out the source video here. It was captured on a 360 camera so you can pan around.

That's a much better link.

That is a very composed cyclist!

It might have taken a bit of time for it to sink in, way too fast for any initial reaction. That's one lucky bastard.

hawkinspeter wrote:

BlodadTand wrote:

For you lot thinking it's fake check out the source video here. It was captured on a 360 camera so you can pan around.

That's a much better link.

That is a very composed cyclist!

I downloaded it, but it's a bit distorted when played as a straight video. Even so, this shot is terrifying:

 

Someone has made this showing how close it actually was. Really terrifying. Serously no ill-intent??  Millimetres from death or, at the very least, life changing injuries.

https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/HandmadeGreatFowl

a1white wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

BlodadTand wrote:

For you lot thinking it's fake check out the source video here. It was captured on a 360 camera so you can pan around.

That's a much better link.

That is a very composed cyclist!

I downloaded it, but it's a bit distorted when played as a straight video. Even so, this shot is terrifying:

 

 

Someone has made this showing how close it actually was. Really terrifying. Serously no ill-intent??  Millimetres from death or, at the very least, life changing injuries.

https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/HandmadeGreatFowl

Thanks for that. So, Surrey school run standard then.

Since the other vehicles in the video seem to be giving the rider more than a whole lane out of courtesy, I would have said either ill-intent or, in the light of my last 2 experiences of similar - a) some old gimmer in a Jag fiddling with his dashboard controls, and b) a woman having some splendid craic with her passenger - no idea of what was happening on the road.

hawkinspeter wrote:

The lack of movement by the cyclist suggests to me that either the video is faked or the cyclist is completely unflappable.

The twitter link has the comment:
"The video is fake for 4 reasons:
1- No sound for the car passing
2- No car shade on the cyclist
3- Between the 3rd & 4th second, the left hand was oddly stretched
4- With this speed of a large car, at least there should be a side wind effect on the cyclist"

hirsute wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

The lack of movement by the cyclist suggests to me that either the video is faked or the cyclist is completely unflappable.

The twitter link has the comment: "The video is fake for 4 reasons: 1- No sound for the car passing 2- No car shade on the cyclist 3- Between the 3rd & 4th second, the left hand was oddly stretched 4- With this speed of a large car, at least there should be a side wind effect on the cyclist"

Yeah, I saw that which gave me pause to think, but I didn't bother to check his claims.

hirsute wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

The lack of movement by the cyclist suggests to me that either the video is faked or the cyclist is completely unflappable.

The twitter link has the comment: "The video is fake for 4 reasons: 1- No sound for the car passing 2- No car shade on the cyclist 3- Between the 3rd & 4th second, the left hand was oddly stretched 4- With this speed of a large car, at least there should be a side wind effect on the cyclist"

If you look at the guys forearm when the vehicle comes past he clearly flinches/changes arm position, that movement whilst unseen by most is enough for me to say it's legit.

As for the no law broken BS, go into the police station, swing a hammer near the officers head and then say, "all ok gov, no harm done eh!" If they can't see that was deliberate/reckless endangerment then they are complete fucktards. I seem to recall that just like here and in Aus there are assault laws where no physical contact need be made for a crime to be commited. Typical of plod though no matter where you live.

burtthebike wrote:

Within the marked lane?  The nearside wheels are clearly on the white line, so the bodywork and mirrors are outside the lane.  Very grateful that the cyclist wasn't even struck, let alone injured, but it must have been a matter of millimetres, and for Brexiteers, that's fractions of an inch.

I voted to leave a vile dictatorship that criminally funds other dicatorships, stick to talking about cycling instead of whining about something that will change the balance of Europe as a whole, not just the UK. For people who wished to remain, it's miles not km!