This one is doing the rounds on the newsfeeds and in the media. I\u2019ve linked to the YouTube version because it isn\u2019t screwed up with stupid 30-second ads which papers like the Mail insist on putting in.<\/p>\n
[EDIT: As is typical with the halfwits who are involved with these things, the video is no longer available]<\/strong><\/p>\n It concerns a cyclist\u2019s video of a road rage incident in Farringdon, London. The Audi driver is obviously a prat, but as I\u2019ve pointed out many times before, that\u2019s just evolution at work \u2013 it goes for virtually all Audi drivers. However, the cyclist is also clearly seated on that rung on the evolutionary ladder that is typical of his<\/strong> kind.<\/p>\n The Audi shouldn\u2019t have encroached on the forward area to start with. For that, he is at fault. However, the cyclist who opened his big mouth \u2013 and who ended up getting punched \u2013 was hardly without blame. Let\u2019s face facts: he<\/strong> actually started the road rage incident in the first place because the Audi would just have driven past and that would have been the end of it. By shoving his face into the Audi he initiated the whole affair that developed, and he certainly precipitated the outcome with his subsequent behaviour and language. Indeed, the group he was part of appeared to be deliberately trying to ride in the way of traffic instead of staying to the left, and he was hardly out of the way of following traffic as he veered all over the road in his attempts to catch up with the Audi. This is standard cyclist behaviour, unfortunately: they consider themselves more important than motor vehicles.<\/p>\n As I say, the Audi was wrong. The Audi passenger\/driver who punched the cyclist was wrong. But the cyclist was in the wrong, too.<\/p>\n Drivers are required to stop at the first line of the cycle forward area. A large number don\u2019t \u2013 just as an equally large number encroach on single stop lines at traffic lights when there\u2019s no camera (taxis are by far the worst culprits there). Encroaching on the forward area unnecessarily is bad driving.<\/p>\n But, then again, cyclists are also bound by rules which they ignore. Many just ride through traffic lights whatever colour they\u2019re on. They\u2019re hardly the angels they\u2019d have you believe that they are.<\/p>\n