Ponder's Blog

Opening on a Christmassy theme… on Remembrance Day! All piss taking aside, I’m not so humbuggy about it this year. It’s been a shit year all round so anything that makes people feel better is OK with me.

The rest of the video is quite eventful with impatience, once again, being the overriding theme. So many drivers just need to get in front, regardless if they’ve anywhere to go, pass with absolutely no regards to the safety of an unprotected person and plenty of red light jumpers, both with and without engines!

Traffic as we approach Christmas this year is just as bad as ever, and when combined with a but of rain it gets abysmal (rain being the other very prominent theme). I find I’m really relying on my wits and experience (and in some cases pure stubbornness) just to stay in one piece more and more!

Now for the video, both on YouTube and LBRY as usual.

What started as a quiet video ended up at over 10 minutes!
Road users complain about cyclists… well there are more motorised road users who just completely ignore Rule 167 of the Highway Code than cyclists who jump red lights, and all down to impatience.

Relevant parts of Rule 167:

DO NOT overtake where you might come into conflict with other road users. For example

• approaching or at a road junction on either side of the road
• where the road narrows
• stay behind if you are following a cyclist approaching a roundabout or junction, and you intend to turn left

The last one listed here in particular is smashed almost every time I go out!

The last clip of this video is almost a minute on its own, but what a catalogue of cockwombles that contains!

Anyway, you don’t want to read, you want to watch so here are some embeds!

Well it’s a monster 11.25 volume this time! (That’s what she said!)

Impatience rules the roost, as usual but it’s the last day that stands out.

In the clip at 9.25 you can tell alarm bells are ringing, and boy were they right! A less experienced cyclist would just be another statistic. I just wish I got the registration but sadly not seen.

On the way home in the bin lorry clip, I could see more than the camera shows, and knew it was clear. The car on the opposite side was also blocked.

Finishing with the future drivers being taught to treat cyclists like shit I think this is a very eventful video!

Beware, plenty of swearing at some points!

The theme to this collection of clips is:
Must Get In Front!

It’s not a long video in comparison to most because there are 5 days of clips and many are in the small hours. This doesn’t stop so many drivers’ impatience and cycle hatred coming through!

There will be a few weeks before the next one due to some time off, but rest assured that time will fly!

Not sure if it’s YouTube or WordPress but getting that video to embed was more difficult than usual!

Revenge of the Paint Scrapers!

Sometimes I just feel like riding along the middle of the lane, but I’m not an inconsiderate twat. I’ve said enough on this topic so moving on…

I’ve tried something new in this video. Watch for the moving arrows with the discarded cigarette. My views on SEP Syndrome can be found on this very blog right here.

Bonus comedy clip at the end 😉

This time we have quite a mixed bag.

It starts and ends with a Ninja, red light jumpers (as always), impatience (also as always), some very dangerous and to me aggressive behaviour, lead footers, indecision and even a UFO!

The hot weather really did seem to bring out some very bad driving. It wasn’t just me who noticed this either; I had others mentioning it at work.

One thing I’ll say time and time again, many people on bikes act like twats. This is not an excuse to put them, nor especially those of us who do abide by the road traffic laws, in even more danger just because you don’t like them. What you’re targeting is not an object it’s a living human. Would you just walk up to some random person and threaten them for no reason? Not if you’re a decent human, but being in a car and seeing a bike seems to remove all humanity from some. Don’t be one of those some.