[Closed] Vegan Cyclist loses it at close passing driver.

Needs to get some meat down him.

Alpina eh? Quite a rare car that, not many on the roads these days.

Another one who needs to ride defensively - GET OUT OF THE GUTTER!

Yawn. Too much conflict in the world.

It wasn't even that close

That Durianrider guy is a pretty angry chap. Amazed he's not on here actually.

That car driver deserves a beating.

All the stickers in the world don't make it an Alpina.

that was close?

yup - illegal in aus and deliberately intimidating

illegal in aus and deliberately intimidating

putting stickers on your car?

Vegan cyclist needs to have a bacon butty and calm the **** down.

Well that just wasted 2 minutes of my life.

Durianrider is a weapons grade bellend, I can't stand the bloke. I bet the bloke in the Alpina twigged who it was and aimed for him...

as an aside, why do vegans feel it's necessary to publicise their choice of food? like this guy with VEGAN on his ass and on his vest. It's a bit weird, I don't go around with a shirt saying 'meat eater' nobody cares bro.

If I got angry at every car that overtook me*, I'd never ride.

*Not to mention all the hours editing footage.

These PASSRAGE! videos are getting boring now.

robowns - Member

Needs to get some meat down him

think he likes meat 😉

I find I only get them when I lose concentration and forget to ride wide. Never get them when riding in primary

Had a prick in of all things a Rolls Royce deliberately buzz my wife and I (including blasting his horn) a couple of weeks back. No idea why - we were riding single file and there was no traffic coming the other way so didn't even slow him down at all. Sadly I didn't get the chance to ask him because while I caught up with him intending to ask(!) he jumped a red light and got away. The 1/2 mile or so chasing him down was my highest output so far since fitting a power meter!

If he hadn't jumped the lights then the language in that video would have seemed very tame in comparison...

I find I only get them when I lose concentration and forget to ride wide. Never get them when riding in primary

+1

in my post near miss review; result is often - i should have been further out.

What a blouse , the car was knowhere near him. He really is a bawbag and his youtube videos prove It. I'd imagine this was all done for a bit of publicity.

not even close

I get all angry when I'm hungry too.

green tyres on a blue bike - oh the humanity!!

Disc brakes too - he should have removed a wheel and slashed his face up with it.

Durianrider is a weapons grade bellend, I can't stand the bloke.

If all vegans were that ****ish the whole vegan movement would have been pounded into a bloody pulp years ago.

Why did he overtake then pull over for an argument?

If all vegans were that ****ish

If?!?

Cracking video, I like his style!

Being ill and bored I clicked on his channel....whaooo there! Also linked to his (recently ex) girlfriend's channel. There are some messed up folk our there living odd messed up lives 'to camera' with even odder messed up sycophantic people addicted watching and commenting on their every utterance. WTF has happened to the human race.

jekkyl - Member
as an aside, why do vegans feel it's necessary to publicise their choice of food? like this guy with VEGAN on his ass and on his vest.

They don't...it's just a facet of his already immeasurable knobbishness. I expect was he not vegan, he'd still suffer from the former affliction.

There are just as many T-shirts proclaiming that the wearer eats meat. WGAF?

Being ill and bored I clicked on his channel....whaooo there! Also linked to his (recently ex) girlfriend's channel. There are some messed up folk our there living odd messed up lives 'to camera' with even odder messed up sycophantic people addicted watching and commenting on their every utterance. WTF has happened to the human race.

I have been engrossed for 2 hours

the I dumped him cause he couldn't get it up... video was [s]rofl tastic[/s] mental

Being ill and bored I clicked on his channel....whaooo there! Also linked to his (recently ex) girlfriend's channel. There are some messed up folk our there living odd messed up lives 'to camera' with even odder messed up sycophantic people addicted watching and commenting on their every utterance. WTF has happened to the human race.

Fortunately nothing. The Internet has simply allowed the small amount of cocks in this world to broadcast their cockishness to a wider audience.

[quote=jekkyl ]as an aside, why do vegans feel it's necessary to publicise their choice of food? like this guy with VEGAN on his ass and on his vest. It's a bit weird, I don't go around with a shirt saying 'meat eater' nobody cares bro.

I wear mine as its a good way to annoy people who dont care apparently:wink:

Why do they have to wear club colours or why do they need to have the brand of their bike on it or Rapha or wear t-shirts about bikes when not on a bike

Some folk like to tell you things like their musical tastes or hobbies or food they eat on their t-shirts - I am surprised you have only ever encountered vegans who do this.

I dont know why they wish to share this probably because they care.

It never ceases to amaze me how anti bike this forum sometimes is. That was clearly a close punishment pass - remember its a wide angle lens. the car could easily have gone another 2 m wider but didn't 'cos he was wanting to scare the cyclist and was overtaking on a bend

Sadly that just seemed like the average pass to me. In my experience it's rare somebody actually gives the right amount of space or hangs back until it's safe to pass.

The cyclist is taking it a bit far though. Getting angry is fine, but semi incoherent swear rambling solves nothing. Was the driver male or female? Looks like a bloke, but appears to have the voice of a ten year old girl.

I quite like Durianrider. He talks crap but I find him strangely entertaining. Totally over the top. I didn't think the driver passed him that closely, but doing it on a blind corner is a bit rude manoeuvre and deserved that point to be made to him. But acting like that and getting all angry just loses him the moral high ground and undermines his argument. If I were the driver and faced with a super angry cyclist I think i'd argue back for the sake of it even though i'd know I was in the wrong. Some people need to grow up and realise they're no longer on the school playground and threatening fifty-cuffs is just a bit lame. But knowing Durianrider i'd probably just sit back and enjoy the show.

funkmaster - your average pass is under a metre? 'cos thats what that one looked like to me.

its close but we have all had closer

If you choose to stop it can only be to explain the rules and why it was not safe
It never works so I never bother.

Junkyard - I have got apologies for close passes from car drivers - usually when going with the line - "you scared me"

funkmaster - your average pass is under a metre? 'cos thats what that one looked like to me.

Pretty much, that's why I mentioned it. One of the reasons I stopped riding and started walking to work. Narrow roads and impatient cockwombles leaves little passing space.

well you are either more diplomatic or persuasive than me

A video of him confronting a big angry giant of a man might be a bit more interesting.

Well, looks like somebody didn't get any sleep with that pea under his mattress.

Why did he overtake then pull over for an argument?

Durian rider is a weapons grade bellend, I can't stand the bloke. I bet the bloke in the Alpina twigged who it was and aimed for him...

^this. He's so annoying I've decided to abandon my plans for a veggie supper and eat a steak

Problem is it's the norm here in the UK for a car to buzz past you within 3 foot. In Australia they are much more conciderate so this would seem bad. However Harley was playing it up for the camera. Amazed how many people on here don't know him considering he's the most popular cyclist on YouTube.

Durianrider is a bit out there but if you guys wanna watch a channel of a cyclist that really makes you have love for the sport then watch cycling Mavens channel. The guy is an absolute gent and some of his vlogs are golden.

Didn't watch it all as I've better things to do.

Yeah the car was closer than you should pass, but hell hardly that close. Happens all the time, especially if you ride that close to the kerb.

When I was young and rode road a lot I'd bang on the side windows of a car I could reach. Often they'd stop and rant at me. Usually they'd calm down when I showed them my arms aren't six feet long. Of course I'm more mature now so just give them 'the finger'.

More seriously it's the number one reason I started mountain biking. I don't even own a road bike anymore

Yeah, but was he full natty brah?

Does his shirt have rude words on it? If so.....even more of an asshat than I'd previously thought.

NEver heard of him until this thread... Seems a complete tosser though.

Durian. Isn't that the fruit that smells like shit? Or vegan breath.

I wear mine as its a good way to annoy people who dont care apparently:wink:
Why do they have to wear club colours or why do they need to have the brand of their bike on it or Rapha or wear t-shirts about bikes when not on a bike

Some folk like to tell you things like their musical tastes or hobbies or food they eat on their t-shirts - I am surprised you have only ever encountered vegans who do this.

I dont know why they wish to share this probably because they care.

The tricky bit is the ones that 'care' in the most overt ways (and I'm not really confining this to veganism) are often the most maladjusted and about the worst 'adverts' for the cause. The ones that just get on with being regular members of society but just happen to be vegans/gay/religious etc, not hiding it but its just a factor of their lives known to those that know them, tend to be the best role models.

There was a lady at work who came out as lesbian in her late 20s who just obsessed about it. She wore a t shirt with a pro lesbian slogan most of the time and if not a pin when she needed to be smarter. Every decision, be it big or small she felt like she was required or entitled to a special opinion. A self appointed LBGT arbiter. I kid you not when it came to the choice of team christmas lunch location (Ask or Prezzo - we lived large) she sent around an email that said 'as a lesbian I would be happy with either' without a trace of humour or irony. And this is in a work community of 20% LGBT employees who were the first to roll their eyes are her every utterance. I felt a bit sorry for her in the end (she ended up leaving as work pressure was getting to her and she wanted to focus on her 'lesbian inspired' art) as this one factor of her life had consumed and paralysed her for being a complete member of any community. Maybe it was caused by years of self (and who knows family) generated repression but it was not healthy.

That was a long rambling way of saying that whilst wearing your tribe (quite literally) on your sleeve might have positive promotional aspects to it you are always going to be at risk of aligning yourself to the counter productive nutters.

Sadly that just seemed like the average pass to me. In my experience it's rare somebody actually gives the right amount of space or hangs back until it's safe to pass.

Yep. On EVERY ride I will get at least one person overtake me on a blind corner/blind crest. Never give enough space, never contemplate that a car may be coming in the opposite direction.

I ride in primary and when I have had 'discussions' with the driver their first line is usually "what are you doing riding in the middle of the road making it hard for me to overtake".
I always ask them whether they would have overtaken a car in the same spot but even they they don't really get it.

I think the upshot is they just don't care as they must know it is not safe to overtake on blind corners?

I always ask them whether they would have overtaken a car in the same spot but even they they don't really get it.

Same.

A (non-scientific) study of this with friends, some of who are cyclists but the majority not, and the 'reason' was really scary, namely that overtaking a car in that position, if something is then coming they can't pull back in and will have an accident.

Whereas they 'can' pull into a cyclist and while it might scratch the car and put them onto the pavement / into a hedge, the motorist is unlikely to get harmed as a result.

In cold light no-one I spoke to thought that was reasonable, that they'd willingly harm a cyclist before themselves but equally those that admitted they'd overtake in that situation, it must have been factored into their judgement somewhere.

Don't know what the answer is, because it's all being calculated subconciously at the time, but end of the day it comes down to self >>> others. And i suspect that is because they don't see the harm that many of us that use the roads potentially come to every day, hence no idea how dangerous they are being.

The guys makes a large amount of money from revenue from his youtube site which he gets through clicks. So being a bell-end in a strangely entertaining way is what he does. It was not a good pass, but it was an opportunity to make another video to get lots of people to view an comment on.

Very similar to a lad round here,known for not taking crap off anyone, car cut him up while cycling along the side of Coniston, followed with a few rude gestures at car, car waiting further up road, lad rides over to drivers windows, few heated words ,leans in grabs keys hurls them into Coniston Water and rides off with a smile on his face leaving a gobsmacked motorist stuck!!

whilst wearing your tribe (quite literally) on your sleeve might have positive promotional aspects to it you are always going to be at risk of aligning yourself to the counter productive nutters.

I think this depends I know a fair few militant vegans and lesbians - not always mutually exclusive- and it just sort of depends.
SOme are passionate some are a bit nuts

I do tend to agree that when a person lets one thing consume their entire identity its rarely a good thing whatever that is...cycling for example

I dont own anything that shows I am vegan but i do own things that show I am cyclist
I assume I have angered folk [ at work] more for my pro cycling arguments than my veganism.

the otherjohnv

Its because cyclists are not seen as a threat subconsciously

I assume I have angered folk [ at work] more for my pro cycling arguments than my veganism.

Yeah, you keep telling yourself that's why they're angry with you.......

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