The vicious cycle - a London experience

[777bigmick]

yeah because cyclists always obey the law in london lol

[mr420B]

@etnocentrismopanico instead you would rather ADD to the problem...?

[yummymayo]

Haha. Is that you? Great piece of video you got there. Cheers!

[Flo4u2u]

Don't know but people in London are nice! Possible to find few but steel ok!

[marafi]

Brilliant and more or less the reason WHY I DO NOT CYCLE ON THE MAIN ROAD! Cycling on the back streets and any idouit come at you run them over or kick them. All is sorted and its all for the best!!

[CyclingMikey]

@nicerguy02 London is quite possibly cycling paradise and the best place to cycle in the UK. And I say that as someone who makes a living from skating.

[m0bob]

Car drivers (I own and drive a car) need to be far more considerate towards cyclists. When I drive my car and it's warm and comfortable and it has airbags and a metal case to protect me. When I ride my bike, I have clothing, a helmet nothing else..Next time you drive by a cyclist, please give them at least 1 metre for safety. It's better than ending up in court if there's an accident.

Yes, I know some some cyclists ride like idiots but so do car drivers. We are all human and not immortal.

[tilibip]

just tired protecting you guys. just stay in your lane.

[zivkovicable]

@tilibip What lane is that? Go away & learn some english.

[tilibip]

@zivkovicable "lane: A narrow road, esp. in a rural area" - here refers to bicycle lane, where a cyclist should keep instead in the middle of the street. and quit being such a smart ass dude.

[CyclingMikey]

@tilibip My lane is the bus lane, the car lane, in fact any part of the public highway I need to or choose to cycle on.

[tilibip]

then mind your cycling and do it safe, you're a hazard for all the drivers and they really try to protect you

[CyclingMikey]

@tilibip LMAO! A cyclist is a hazard to car drivers? Let's get a little back towards reality, I've never yet heard of any driver being injured by a cyclist in a collision.

As for riding in any lane, appropriate to the situation, it's called vehicular cycling. Acting like another vehicle is in most circumstances the safest way to cycle. You might like to google John Franklin and Cyclecraft. In many cases the cycle lane is just paint showing the most dangerous part of the road to cycle on.

[mr420B]

@tilibip hahahah thats funny stuff- drivers really trying to protect us! check out some of the vids around youtube of total fuckers chaing, swerving cutting up and generally being wankers to cyclists...

[skunkpants]

Bikers are becoming all the same now, Ignorant and incredibly narrow sighted! Of course you will end up under the car if you don't stay to your cycle lanes, of course you will get honked at if you turn without looking or signalling, of course you are more likely to get hit if you weave in and out of cars. HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE!!!

[CyclingMikey]

@skunkpants Rubbish - just share the road. Bicycles should use the normal lanes just as cars do.

[Dubbl0HPeeetey]

lol, this guy must doing something wrong

[koko56]

-_-

[matthewpalance]

What camera and lenses did you use? The video looks awesome. Any color grading?

[LouisLeMort]

I'm sure plantation owners in the deep south said the same thing about slavery. "It will never be abolished, it's not economical to ban slavery!"

Ten years ago almost nobody had heard of a critical mass rally, or seen a bicycle lane, but now almost every city in the developed world has them. Things are changing because they have to, we're running out of oil and pollution is changing the climate. Why not start riding a bicycle now? You'll be much fitter and save yourself a ton of money.

[koko56]

You are deluded...

I see what you are wishing for, but that is... the perfect definition for the word "idealistic".

[baybonez]

esta chingon!

[lexmark136]

that sounds really boring, why would we wanna watch that?

[JokeRtheJakeR]

Type in JakeRs EPIC FAIL. It's the funniest shit out on YOU TUBE so far.

[AmurgAprins]

People want to find a meaning in everything , that's how they invented gods :)

[bozirob]

this is fantastic, great fun love the man in the van and his hand gesture must remember that one next time

[pacmania09]

I have just arrived back from London and the bike riders are a complete nuisence to the drivers. I must say though that the bikes are a better way of protecting the enviroment and also a good means of transport but can the compete with the cars, trucks and double decka's. Hell No!

[LouisLeMort]

Car drivers are on the way out, buddy. You can't keep using up the non-renewable resources and polluting the planet forever, you know. The best thing for you to do is get a bicycle now, so you're ahead of the game when the last cars are finally banned. Plus you'll lose weight and get fit, what's wrong with that?

[lsmike]

Car drivers can be much more of a nuisance to bike riders. Take the subset of collisions involving motor vehicles and cyclists and you'll find that between 8 and 9 in every 10 crashes are the fault of the driver.

Besides which, it's cars that usually can't compete in London. Bikes are much faster door to door, and through the traffic in inner London. Even in suburbia I tend to keep up with the same vehicles over a 10 mile stretch of part of my commute.

[doRYEmon]

at times.. the screaming bike rider looks like andy murray.. =D

[rawrberrys]

Beautiful!!!

[kiteaust]

cycling is old and the bikes are too big for the city you should try Freeline skates instead. just as fast and can fit in your backpack search "Kitesports alex sanz" and see what it is.

[koko56]

and kindly gtfo

[CyclingMikey]

@kiteaust As someone who skates for a living, I can tell you that skates are just not as good for travelling as bicycles are.

[vkgiotis]

Car travel in cities is an extremely inefficient way of moving humans because:

- average speeds are limited around 30kph (18mph)

- to move a person that weighs 75kg (165lb) an average car needs 1300kg (2900lbs) of mass in the form of metal

Therefore a car is an extremely inefficient means of

city transport which produces problems of pollution and congestion.

I believe that the concept of cars in cities needs a total rethink.

This video highlights the above. Good video.

[tailgunner2]

Well don't forget, many of the roadsways in London were built during the days of the horse and carriage, combine that with overcrowding, each with at least one vehicle, and it will cause traffic nightmares.

Look no further than Boston to see how true this is.

[koko56]

@vkgiotis 30kms is like, TOTALY more close to 19 miles.

[southamptonsheroes]

@vkgiotis i bet you cried and wanked after you wrote that

[Nordic123ful]

i lost 2:08 to see this??

[Danowner]

Cyclist that hug the edges of roads tend to be pricks anyway. I stick to the sidewalk, unless there's a dedicated bike lane.

[seamusotorain]

...which is illegal. A bicycle counts as a road vehicle.

[Danowner]

well until the cops here in the US start caring about that law, then I'm still going to take advantage of the sidewalk. Those cyclist that hug the curb are just plain suicidal with the kind of drivers around here. And trust me, trying to play their game already got me smashed by a truck once. Screw that nonsense.

[koko56]

Yeah in America there are more or less proper highways in the cities lol.

[Saighton]

@koko56 whereas older, European cities are often ROMAN in origin - they didn't plan for heavy car traffic 2000 years ago, nor did the Victorians in the 19th century! So there's not enough space, and too many people, usually due to really REALLY crap town plannigWe can either knock down one side of the street and put in two new lanes, both for non-car traffic, or we can bar cars completely and find alternative transport.

[Saighton]

@koko56 whereas older, European cities are often ROMAN in origin - they didn't plan for heavy car traffic 2000 years ago, nor did the Victorians in the 19th century! So there's not enough space, and too many people, usually due to really REALLY crap town planning. We can either knock down one side of the street and put in two new lanes, both for non-car traffic, or we can bar cars completely and find alternative transport. The street bit is easier, but politically, that's impossible, isn't it?

[lsmike]

Don't hug the kerb - just ride out in the lane.

[CyclingMikey]

@Danowner It's illegal to ride on the pavement (sidewalk to you) in the UK. Cyclists should stick to the roads - it's called vehicular cycling.

[maxXwon]

good video

[AnomalousVikingNinja]

proba. that's how i feel.

[valdezmiguel2]

yo, da only reasin u shud b biking is if da popo stealed yo license cuz u got caught smoking J's in da draver seat, dawg.

[AnomalousVikingNinja]

'n also dat bicycles hav mad stylz. .yo.

[BleedingSunday]

except when youre american.. then keep your fat ass inside your chevvy

[seamusotorain]

Word.

[LouisLeMort]

What language are you speaking?

[LuvDuxxx]

Motorcycle vs. mad driver in a car, that's what I'd like to see. The kind of crazy thing I'd expect from the you tube series A DRIVING FOOL.

[jimguzinski]

funny

[popwceo]

eh~~~what that? maybe i can't undertand ^^

[noizematter]

should come to Bogota - Colombia .. that's a real biking experience!!

[AnomalousVikingNinja]

woah. Cuando estaba viviendo alla mire un accidente desde un motorcyclista y una comion. El trancon alla es locisimo, pero me encanta los domingos. Muy genio. Ahora Nueva York reserva los caminos para cyclistas asi tambien.

[choraunzim]

AFF

[Alstom1995]

The vicious cycle - a London experience, dvd coming soon in all retailers, the hd version includes a deleted scene of the cyclist being knocked over.

[Frank15982]

How many cameras did you have working at one time?

[GreenleafStudios]

Excellent audio. Pretty epic.

[Naiping]

london feels like singapore when it comes to bike riding...wait...singapore is worse!

[Shiningrange]

u mean china lol, those u see are the black sheeps

[philokalomen]

Darn I miss London! I still get that chill remembering those crazy London cyclists always getting so darn close to the buses!!!

[halfnovice]

haha at 1:00

[Josenovich]

he's cute.

[do0me0nice]

borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring

[k1dicarus]

first.

MOAR pls