Out of the blue

Your mission, should you wish to accept it, is to spot the incident in this video before it happens.

I have no idea how I avoided this!

The video has two sets of information on it. Speed, and G force. The inner ring is 0.5G the outer is 1G.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Cycle commute
• Glasgow
• Broomhill
• shocker

[ribblestealth]

Good brakes!!! Don't know how you stopped that fast in the wet, my bike would have kept going for atleast another 6 feet. Nice one :D

[magnatom]

@ribblestealth Look stop dual compound pads. Wouldn't use any other pads. :-)

[RoadcraftNottingham]

Couldn't actually see anything but anticipated it (good job really seeing how I'm an instructor lol) Nice example of expect everything to go wrong cos one day it does. cheers.

[magnatom]

@RoadcraftNottingham Looked at your vids. Very good. I'll keep an eye out for more. :-)

[electrictactical]

13mph does seem slow for you, was it the conditions?

[magnatom]

@electrictactical There was a red light up ahead so there was no point in racing.....what am I saying! There is always a point in racing.... ;-)

[tavascarow]

Should be a law that all pedestrians should wear hi viz & helmets & be lit up after dark IMHO.

& why are they allowed to use the carriageway when they don't pay road tax or have a license?

;o)

[maidstoneonbike]

@magnalightify In the UK, road tax was abolished by Winston Churchill in 1937, to prevent drivers feeling like they own the road. Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) is what the tax disk in your car represents. It is based entirely on the CO2 emissions of a vehicle, and if a vehicle produces less than 99g of CO2 per kilometre, VED is free. This is why the argument that cyclists don't pay road tax and shouldn't be on the road is invalid. There is no relationship between spending on the road VED.

[littlemckay]

@Keir316 A car failed to stop at a stop sign and drove on in front of me from a side street. I hit them going 28mph downhill! I'm lucky to be alive (and it was a close)! If a paedestrian did the same - they could be badly hurt, but the injuries to me could be far less substantial than the brute force of going from 28mph to 0mph against a steel monster.

And that driver will now be doing a faily lengthy jail sentance - so thankfully at least the justice system doesn't agree with your idiocity!

[littlemckay]

@Keir316 Maybe because there's a difference when people apologise. Watch more videos, there's near misses with cars and he doesn't explode if someone immediately apologises and accepts fault.

Also, like @mr420b said, hitting a paedestrian in the wrong will probably hurt the paedestrian more. But being hit by (or hitting) a car, it can be deadly.

[deventergast]

@ribblestealth i do with my bike bout 50kmh (30-35mph), and when i brake with both brakes i would of easily stopped in that situation without hitting her, doesnt matter if its wet or dry =P my bike is: Gazelle a dutch brand and yes i live in the netherlands.

[mr420B]

@Keir316 well perhaps thats a sign of just how dangerous cars are then! if he had a full on collision with even the biggest pedestrian then the damage would be fairly limited- but if he were to crash into/ get hit by even the smallest car he could be dead! thats what the big deal with car drivers is!

[Keir316]

Oh aye , your attitude is somewhat different when the persons not sat behind the wheel of a car , even though this was clearly her fault you all like"oh it's alright" I can't wait to see an upload of you getting mashed by a combine harvester .

[magnalightify]

@maidstoneonbike ah thank you very much

[magnalightify]

Please reply, i am just wondering why you believe no one pays a road tax and that they pay vehicle exercise(is that right?). I am not disagreeing with you i just don't understand this too well.

[simplyroxyful]

Your good, i don,t think i would have seen her.