Pointless overtake, aggressive revving, shouting and swearing
Channel: jaj991
Date: 2022-08-27

As I'm approaching the red light I'm a little surprised that anyone would bother to overtake, the inevitable outcome of an overtake will be me moving past them into the ASL which is what I do. Cue lots of aggressive revving of her engine. As she passes me she's shouting about "use the effing cycling way" and some more swearing, it's at this point I realise she has a child in the back of the car. The camera doesn't pick up anything she shouts due to wind noise but I heard it and it's not language anyone should be using in front of children.


At the roundabout it appears she's telling me I have to use the cycle farcilities to get round the roundabout, so why the shouting and swearing about cycle lanes earlier? There's no cycle lane where she overtook me and was shouting and swearing.



For the hard of thinking: I'm aware there's a filter lane for the ASL at the start of the video but that's not where she's shouting and swearing at me to use the cycle lane. At 41 seconds into the video is where she's shouting and swearing at me to use the cycle lane, where there isn't one. You may, probably will, argue that she's shouting and swearing about the cycle lane at the start of the video, I don't think she is.

For anyone who's read this far: cycle facilities are optional for cyclists, we don't have to use them. From the highway code "are not obliged to use them".



Saturday 27th August 2022