Idiotic comment by probably an idiot

and why would I do that. Why would I look for conflict and waste my time creating a situation where I would then just have to spend more time editing and uploading the video and then replying to comments like these from people who either have no idea what they are talking about or who are just trolling. For the biggest part of this video there is no bike lane - there is some blue paint on the road that is not a bike lane. Read the highway code to learn what actually constitutes a bike lane. The reason that I am in the middle of the lane rather than on the left is because this bit of road is very bad for idiot drivers overtaking you then immediatelly turning left. The best way to avoid this is to be in the lane so that cars don't go past you and so that when they do turn left you can easily go past. The fact that this car was braking made it even more likely that it was going to turn left. Aside from that as the car was going the same speed or slower than the bikes means that I would probably be in the center of the lane anyway. It's not good being along side traffic that's going the same speed as you, it's much better to be in the lane with the rest of the traffic being visible. I slowed down as this idiot obviously needed educating like you so I wanted to have a chat.

@@bigblokeonabike Because clearly all cyclists only ever wheel their bikes out of the door to annoy motorists. We spend hours aimlessly wheeling around waiting for our next victim. Even a moment of thought beyond "fucking cyclists" might make them realise that cyclists do most things they do to mitigate shit driving around them or to make it safer to use the roads. The fact riding in cycle lanes seems to mean drivers don't need to give us any space when overtaking is ridiculous. The fact that drivers park over cycle lanes constantly is lost on them. The fact that you are constantly joining and leaving the "main road" when you are in our shit bike lanes is lost on them. If every driver was forced to periodically cycle on our roads for a few hours I think 95% of issues would magically evaporate.

This clip seems one of the ones that is probably reasonable to post online. I probably personally would've just let it go, but this clip doesn't seem to have much cyclist entitlement, unlike unfortunately too many clips out there (not saying all of them or even close by any means, just more than there should be). *cough* Jeremy Vine *cough*.

If you are asking why wasn't I on the blue paint on the left that's because this bit of road is renowned for being left hooked by cars turning left. I actually assumed he was turning left as most traffic going straight on is in the right lane. He was also braking.

@@bigblokeonabike I defer to your local knowledge sir.

Entitled cycle fascists like this NEVER use the bike lane. These cycle warriors are so disempowered that they have no other way of showing dominance, so choose to upset all other road users (and pedestrians) with their disregard for any but their own.

It's a cycle lane, paid for through taxation for your convenience but you and all the others choose to ignore it. Or is it really there just to inconvenience car users?

@@ttblade how much inconvenience was it to the car really? He ended up in exactly the same place in the queue as he would have done if there had been no cyclists on the road at all.

Dream on. You'll never be able to afford a house either..

I don't know what speed I was doing but I was probably doing 21 - 22 MPH. The reason that speed limits do not apply to bikes is because cyclists don't know how fast they are going as there is no requirement for a speedometer. I always slow down after that left turn pretty much as there is a red light at the bottom of the hill that I usually have to wait for.

No, that is not the solution. Actually think about how that would be implemented - how much it would cost, how much extra traffic would be on the already congested roads, how much it would impact the NHS from poor health and obesity. In a lot of cases, such as the one in this video, riding in a cycle lane is not the safest place to be. Good road sense, awareness of other road users and local knowledge of this road told me that the car was most likely to be turning left and could well left hook me. For this reason it is much safer here to be part of the flow of traffic rather than on the left where you are vulnerable. Of course this also makes it easier for the car to turn left as it no longer needs to battle through a line of cylists. In this case the car was not turning left but you plan for the worst and hope for the best. Most of what cyclists do that motorists get upset about is to deal with unsafe driving from motorist that endanger vulnerable road users.

Not when all it is is painted line on the road.

@@badabing8884 Why, they blind then, perhaps there should be a barrier, eh, 🤪

There is literally no country in the world where cycling requires a licence, except possibly North Korea. Why do you hate freedom?

Prosecuted under what part of the Highway Code?

Cyclists want cycle lanes, predominantly for slow cycle traffic that would be an obstruction to the road, therefore increasing danger for all. In the case of this cycle lane, it's basically just a painted section on the road where bikes would normally be cycling anyway, so not exactly the pinnacle of cycle lane design. Also, as the video poster replied to another comment, that portion of cycle lane is notorious for drivers turning left to hit cyclists having not looked in their mirrors before turning. Given all of this, there's just no reason for bike traffic travelling at (or faster than) the speed of the cars, hence causing no obstruction to traffic and minimal safety concern, to not use the regular lanes to cycle in.