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

[ByDandyTurtle]

He's not putting fumes in people's lungs from his car and sees people doing illegal activities that kill others or make our premiums go up.

OP was talking about pursuing motorists though. That's the point. I haven't said a single thing about this guy and said I haven't seen his videos. I was specifically referring to OP's point about pursuing motorists. How many times does that need to be said!?

It takes about 30 seconds for a driver to refocus after interacting with their phone, so a driver who is at the front of a line of traffic texting, thinking "it's fine because I'm stationary," is vastly more likely to cause an accident when they move off from the lights than one who hasn't been texting. So yes, it would be capable of endangering others.

Here is one source for that, there are dozens of others: https://www.onfocus.news/new-study-34-of-crashes-happen-within-60-seconds-of-phone-distraction/

Love from a smug holier than thou fucker who doesn't have "just one drink" when driving, doesn't text "just in stationary traffic," doesn't transport a toddler without a car seat "just a mile down the road," doesn't go through red lights "just behind the last car," doesn't park in disabled bays "just to pop in for a pint of milk" and also doesn't break the speed limit "just by a couple of mph".

If they hit someone, by definition that would be dangerous driving.

Of course it’s dangerous. A child could run across, not looking left as they don’t expect to. You could hit a cyclist or another car coming round the corner.

Why do you think it’s illegal to use your phone even in stationery traffic?

Worse kind of human's a bit strong! Not paedophiles, murderers and dictators?

In stationary traffic it isn't actually dangerous to use your phone. Nor is it always dangerous to drive a couple of meters on the other side of the road (eg clear empty road, and you want to skip the queue to make a right turn).

id disagree with this. If you’re in your phone and suddenly realise the traffic has moved the chances are you chuck your phone down and set off in a hurry without properly checking there’s no cyclist filtering through.

the corner he often stands on where people,go the wrong side of the road to turn right (if clear) is dangerous. It’s on a junction. By the time they’ve pulled out and committed to being on the wrong side of the road a cyclist or indeed a car could turn left from the main road into their path.

Yep. I got my motorcycle license years before my car one. When I was in my car, when waiting in traffic, I would be looking around all the time for bikers coming up the middle etc.

There is the SMIDSY campaign (Sorry Mate, I Didn't See You).

That isn't the definition of dangerous driving.

You can't hit anyone in stationery traffic. That's the point they're making. Starting to move again when you haven't checked properly is obviously dangerous - sitting in stationery traffic is not. Yet both are equally as illegal. That's the point being made. Illegal does not always mean dangerous.

I say this as a non-driving cyclist. It's not a difficult point to understand.

Bit odd to comment on something you haven't watched.

I didn't comment on something I haven't watched - I commented on what OP said, and explicitly said I wasn't commenting on him or his videos, only on OP's comment. If you didn't read what I said before deciding to have a problem, that's not my fault.

If I started a post about Love Island and said "cats are black but dogs aren't", it doesn't take knowledge of Love Island for someone else to say "I haven't watched Love Island so I don't know what happened with Yasmine but I have a black dog so dogs can be black".

Looking at phones, sending messages, watching videos in slow moving or stationery traffic is dangerous. You're not looking at the road or around you. Someone honks and you set off without looking. Just don't.

what does jeremy vine say?

It's not dangerous though, is it? Being in non-moving traffic is not dangerous in any way. It's only dangerous when you start to move again. You cannot hit someone if your car isn't moving. The point is that some things are illegal but not dangerous. If you disagree with the very clear stationery traffic example, there are tonnes more I could give you.

He's definitely not on love island

If the police did their job he wouldn’t be needed. thank goodness for him. some mutters on our roads who endanger cyclists. I wish there were more like him.

This bloke’s just another vigilante. He may be a middle-class-approved cycling vigilante. But he’s doing the same thing as Ring doorbell camera zealots putting their stupid videos on Facebook warning of suspicious men in the neighbourhood, or online ‘paedo hunters’.

Leave detection and enforcement to the police.

Not dangerous to be on your phone whilst driving?

Right ok

Because drivers get frustrated in non-moving traffic, and as soon as it begins to move again they will often try to change lane, or will suddenly move out and accelerate if they think they can make their turn into the next street if they go quickly. Or they are carrying a passenger they're dropping off who thinks it will just be quicker to walk the last 50 yards and suddenly throws their door open. If they're on their phone and don't notice a cyclist or motorcyclist filtering then that can end very badly.

He's not. They are all breaking driving laws. The rest aren't

I'd never heard of him until now, but I'm not surprised. One day, he'll piss off the wrong person, and come to a sticky end. (I'm surprised that none of the JSO crowd got run over.) And I'm not going to line his pockets by clicking on him.

And is his cycling always impeccable? He never rides on pavements, never ignores red lights, obeys 20mph zones? (Some fit cyclists can ride faster than that.) Does he have insurance, as lots of people preach that cyclists should have it?

Incidentally, if it's illegal and allegedly "extremely dangerous" to operate a phone in stationary traffic, why do modern cars have touch screen controls for so many things like heating, so you have to look at the screen to adjust it, when previously, with an actual tactile switch, you could do it by feel, keeping your eyes on the road?

They’re good mates

That’s not true. He’s just another self-important ‘crusader’.

Yes his cycling is impeccable but if you really wanted an unbiased viewpoint you would watch some reaction videos at the very least