Cycling Mikey doesn't deserve the hate he's getting

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure he does this as his dad was killed in an RTC by a drunk driver.

I’d prefer to live in a world where it’s everyone’s job to look out for each other.

Policemen seem to be like hens teeth anyway. You’d think k they’d be at Regents Park more often given the amount of collisions. Probably too busy arresting people for misgendering someone or slagging a school off on Whatsapp

Like all the drivers who respect the mobile phone ban?

Police officers are doing a job and are accountable

Having no authority doesn’t mean he can’t stop criminal behaviour. This isn’t people being a bit unpleasant, it’s people happy to run the risk of killing people

He's quite clever really, his content is complete rage bait for cyclists and non cyclists. People love this type of content, I imagine he makes a tidy sum from his channel! I don't think he minds the hate.

Perhaps lobbying the DVLA to make refresher courses in appropriate road use a licence condition.

People would at least have some respect for such a measure.

A variety of criminal and dangerous things that they shouldn’t be doing. I wish more people called out dangerous behaviour but malt people would rather keep their heads down and ignore it

Or drive on the wrong side of the road.

He’s not going round picking on random people, it’s selfish twats breaking the law in the most dangerous ways.

Sometimes people deserve having their arse handed to them

Is he little?

Hey, Mikey, maybe explain to us, using your words, why we would want to click on your link.

Seems like a good cause to me. But then I don’t use my phone at the wheel.

There was a recent thread on here where OP was caught by a Cycling Mikey type. She was caught using her phone whilst in control of her car. Tried to argue that she was vulnerable and unsafe as he was a man and she had a baby in the car.
I believe some police authority areas actually encourage people to send in footage of people using phones whilst driving. Operation Snap.

He is being a twat though for confronting people. Just film them and send in the evidence.

But that is not really relevant. Yes many accidents are caused by people on phones. Cycling Mikey is also a horrible little man. One has no bearing on the other. He isn’t actively stopping accidents or reducing people breaking the law and he has no authority to do so. He is making money off TikTok and YouTube whilst being deliberately provocative and antagonising as that’s what gets views, all whilst pretending he’s doing it for a good cause.

User1786, you couldn't be more wrong. I use public transport when have to travel, I have a disability preventing me from driving.

What I dislike about his behaviour is the way that he deliberately provokes people going about their daily lives. I dislike bullying and dangerous behaviour, which is exactly what he engages in. Most of us have enough going on in our lives without some contemptible busybody patrolling the roads.

I hope he's arrested for breach of the peace.

I suspect his actions will be his downfall, as I have said.

Exactly, police officers are always trying to deescalate.

That's why I couldn't do it, I'm not a people person and wouldn't wield power lightly. I'd be more police by baton than police by consent. It's something I recognise in myself, I'm a stickler for the rules and would like everyone else to be too. Hence I've never had the desire to put on a uniform.

Maybe cycling mikey needs to pause and dabble in a little self reflection as to understand why he acts in the way he does. It sounds like he's doing more harm than good.

I have no problem with people submitting footage from head cam or dashcam to their local police force, as far as that side of what he does I think it’s not unreasonable. I do have a problem with him standing in the middle of the road ordering motorists to go back. He’s got the footage of the driving offence, just submit it, it’s not his responsibility to redirect traffic. His YouTube videos are monetised so he benefits financially from the confrontations so he’s not completely doing it for the altruistic reasons he suggests.

He is a fucking idiot. I have nothing against speed cameras, all for them in fact. I’m a firm rule follower.

I like cycling Mikey!

Brass neck cheeky fuckers, like people who drive on the wrong side of the road, endangering lives to save a few seconds, spend their lives getting away with it because they’re not called out. And people who kill cyclists, pedestrians and children on the roads aren’t the type who are normally careful considerate drivers. They’re the type who think their time is SO much more important than everyone else’s. Cycling Mikey is doing the work to protect people. I can’t imagine why anyone would be annoyed by that.

I would have thought statistically more accidents are caused by drivers using mobile phones than by one possibly antagonistic man on a bike?

OP I’m not giving clicks to someone who sounds like an arse.

Can you describe one of his videos and say why you like it so much? And how it causes problems-social behaviour.

Presumably the people that dislike him are the same ones who object to speed cameras, i.e the ones that break the law

Agree with PP that at some point something will happen to him.