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in message <[email hidden]>, Tony B

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Rob Morley said:

In article <[email hidden]>, Tony B
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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

You are trying to defend the indefensible.

Quoted message said:

No I'm not.

OK, fair doos I stand corrected; it does sound apologetic though. I do
think it's dangerous though - there's maybe 70-90kg moving quickly
through peds crossing the road. Which would be like being hit with a
large hammer? How could that not be dangerous?

OK, slightly modify my response: it's not particularly
dangerous /to/ /the/ /cyclists/. If you pass an elderly or frail
pedestrian that close at that sort of speed they could easily fall, and
for the old and frail simple falls can lead to complications that can lead
to death. If you actually hit a pedestrian, even a young and healthy one,
you'd cause some injury, possibly even quite bad injury - but I'd be
inclined to believe that an actual impact is unlikely.

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Simon Brooke said:

If you actually hit a pedestrian, even a young and healthy one,
you'd cause some injury, possibly even quite bad injury - but I'd be
inclined to believe that an actual impact is unlikely.

So unlikely that it would never happen, and I'm sure the pedestrian
hit by a cyclist in the film takes comfort from the fact that it
didn't happen.

regards, Ian SMith
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soup said:

Simon Brooke said:

... but I think he's right about this one. It isn't nearly as dangerous as
it looks.

Have to agree, the idiots in this video look to be relatively
undangerous, compared to someone driving a Nitroglycerine truck, cycling
like that in typical London traffic flow. But view some of his other
videos ( from America) the roads are wider the traffic seems faster
moving and it is BLEEP BLEEP dangerous.

I watched the NYC video a couple of years or so ago and thought
something along the lines of "scary, but WOW" but my attitude to this
one was totally different, more akin to "****ing a***holes". I'm not
sure what caused the difference in attitude, being a bit older and
more sensible (hah, never!), being more familiar with the city or just
less in awe of the initial concept. I must admit when one of the
riders had a drink can thrown at him I was rather disappointed it
didn't have a greater effect.

Graeme