rydabent

Doubt if it was staged. Do you know what rear view mirrors cost these days?

unterhausen

the motorist was threatening to drive through the cyclist because he thought he had the right to the place in line. This really places the whole scenario on a different level than being cut in on by the cyclist.

about $30 on ebay. Good quality, new mirrors. Found that out when my wife was run into in a parking lot. That wouldn't have been so bad, but the guy then proceeded to pull forward and break our mirror and do thousands in damage to his vehicle. I think the allegation is that the damage was edited in, not that it was actual damage.

detroitjim

Definitely NOT staged. The Location is Russia if judged by the plate numbers

Clearly not using the mirror anyway.

Hundred bucks says the driver was a female

percy kittens

True that. Here is how I agree with your statement:

When a motorist behaves menacingly with, towards or around a cyclist, is it not the cyclist who has the scarier experience? It is their life after all which was just threatened. Motorist drives off, and takes with him an anecdote, no lessons, just a story most likely forgotten by the next mile driven.

The cyclist, however, has another reason to fear or loathe cars...whichever word one chooses, it slowly but surely widens the gap of motorist vs. cyclist.

Anger (defined here as the reaction to any person, place or thing posing an immediate threat to one's security) serves to grind an incident clear into one's memory, right there into the forefront. Only in this case, as you stated, correctly, whatever the righteous lesson the motorist hoped to demonstrate to and for the civic betterment of the cyclist was lost entirely. It is most often filed under: another dickhead on the road today.

percy kittens

How do you propose to verify that?

Chris516

It is somewhere is the Middle East or in the northern region of the continent of Africa because of the plate not having numbers n' letters the full length of the plate. Because the printing on the license plate is both too short, and looks Arabic.

I was born in Germany, lived in London, and traveled through most of Western Europe, parts of Eastern Europe, and the country of Tunisia(next to Libya....UGH). All of those regions, apart from Tunisia, have the thin(top to bottom) n' wide(side to side) plates with numbers n' letters all the way across. Only Tunisia has plates similar to the one in the video of all the countries I have been to.

Keith99

He punched the side mirror and it came flying off. I think that may be why one posted thought it was staged. In my prime I was a big strong guy. I could easily hit a side mirror hard enough that somethgin would break, but even money it woul dhave been my hand with modern sidemirrors.

Keith99

What a twisted view of things, the driver of the silver car was BEHIND the black car and tried to force his way into the lane. In any case signaling does not magically give you the right of way, that belongs to vehicles already in the lane. If thsi was not staged the driver in the black car was a serious danger to anyone near him.

kuan

I've often felt like I wanted to do just that.

nelson249

If the cyclist had any brains at all they should have stayed out of the path of the silver car especially given the lack of rearward visibility of most cars. It was patently obvious what was going to happen. I still hope his wheels get smushed for that little stunt.

detroitjim

No Way! Take a look at the people on the left ,at the very beginning of the clip. Not at all dressed in the garb of either the middle east or northern africa. No Arabic characters either. Take a look at the cyclist ,blonde hair . Examine the orange and white van it comes into view twice midway and at the end. Russia.

For those that think the vehicle had its turn indicator on.... ITS NOT . Those are the brake lights. You can plainly see the location of the winker lamps when the goofball puts on her 4-ways.

work4bike

Like I said in the other thread:

The little silver car did some wrong things, but the cyclist was also in the wrong by coming up the driver's side of the silver car. In that situation you should pick a lane and stay in the middle of that lane. He rode up very close to the driver's side of the silver car when it was obvious that the silver car was changing lanes.

Made cyclist look really bad.

Booger1

If you split lanes on a bicycle or motorcycle,your fair game.......

BAMGrad2012

i saw that video and was laughing

wvridgerider

Do what I did to a tractor trailer once, he ran me off of the road but when I caught up to him a mile down the road, I reached over and spun his fuel cap off.