Not getting the sympathy you thought , eh Mark 
you should realise that most of us on here are whiter than white and always perfect 
He was just left of the white line, his body and the cycle frame, his handle bars stick out almost onto the white line, my road position was typically a meter from the line, the issue is that had the prat been using high visablity clothing or dare I say it shock horror a red light on the rear of his bike he would half got plenty of room, instead he played chicken with his life, surprised the monkeys out of me and came much closer to death than he ever needed to.
Frankly anyone who can defend a cyclist like that clearly shows the lack of general respect road users show each other these days.
He got a blast of horn for being a prat, maybe he will invest in some batteries, he lost his legal right to share the road with me when he decided not to use a light as also legally required 
Just watched it again.
Seems to me that he is wearing reflective clothing, certainly it seems to light up as a glare in your headlights.
Phantom Mark:
He got a blast of horn for being a prat
Well, like I said, perhaps you should check whether that is one of the reasons given in the HC for sounding the horn.
del949:
Just watched it again.
Seems to me that he is wearing reflective clothing, certainly it seems to light up as a glare in your headlights.
Trust me mate, he isn’t, all dark clothes, the vid has slightly enhanced contrast / brightness via youtube to improve the light levels a little.
To be fair it’s a bit stupid to be cycling on a road like that in those conditions without lights, but to be honest I think you made more of what happened than was really necessary, the cyclist was in what appears to be a cycle lane though he could have been further over to the left where he would certainly have been safer.
All in all by riding slightly wider than he needed to and without lights the cyclist put himself at risk, no-one else was at risk so I’d have to say that in my humble opinion it’s much ado about very little to be honest.
The time to get stressed out is when you actually hit a cyclist and you have all those bloody statements to make
ps. Smegged out, is that a new way of getting dead ? 
Smegged out
Lister in Red Dwarf I think!
I seem to disagree with most of you here!!!
To be fair with op, I think given the time of the video the poster is proberly tired and looking forwards to finishing his night shift or thinking " bloody early starts are terrible ". So with that in mind I can see exactly where he is coming from, the last thing on his mind is some suicidal cyclist with no lights on. I bet it did shake him up some as it would do me.
And Harry
He would have got a bloody good blast of my horn to try and bring him to his senses as well.
appears to be a cycle lane
A narrow strip of hard shoulder sadly, I don’t think the council around here would be suicidal enough to put cycle lanes around Sleaford on the A17
To be fair with op, I think given the time of the video the poster is proberly tired and looking forwards to finishing his night shift
I wasn’t tired at all to be honest, but mentally on the wind down approaching the end of my shift (and only a 10 hr one at that), being a night driver you generally have no drama’s through the night and it’s a pretty relaxed place to be 99% of the time, thanks anyway.
And yes, from the outside, and even watching it after the event it all seems over the top reaction to something so minor, however when your sat in that seat going along minding your own business then all of a sudden from out of nowhere appears a cyclist your so close to hitting reaction takes over a little, I was more angry at the guy for being so stupid than anything else tbh…
Like I have said before, imagine I had hit him, killed the poor sod, accident investigation team turns up, I get carted away in cuffs and a police car, accident investigators conclude lights were fitted and probably functional but destroyed by the impact, then idiot here ends up in jail for something which was never my fault in the first place, all in the name of earning a days wages whilst dodging around idiots playing chicken with their lives and my livelihood, that’s why I was angry as well.
Best £26 I ever spent was on that Camera, at least it is some protection against the idiots.
To be fair with op, I think given the time of the video the poster is proberly tired and looking forwards to finishing his night shift or thinking " bloody early starts are terrible ". So with that in mind I can see exactly where he is coming from, the last thing on his mind is some suicidal cyclist with no lights on
If thats you defending the OP, don’t ever spring to my defence
You are implying that he wasn’t concentrating on the job and was too tired to be doing the job properly.
You call that protection?
It looks more like a liability to me.
I can’t see how you can still be ranting about a minor incident two (I think) minutes later, and then feel the need to post it on youtube… 
Seriously you need to calm down, the cyclist posed no threat to you and there are hazards everywhere, you know that. I think your camera is affecting your driving.
Well, funny enough, the car that just passed you, saw him very well, and left plenty of room, visible on the film
You were speeding and hands free or not hands free, you were on the bloody phone, more concentrated on the conversation than looking in front of you.
cycling down a dc at night without lights 
and still you get people trying to defend him
absolutley unbelievable
I don’t think that anyone has tried to defend the cyclist.
What they have done is point out that apart from the light issue, he is doing nothing illegal.
As for cycling on a DC, he is legally allowed to do that (light issue aside) and may not be in a position to choose not to use the DC to get where he was going.
I do know that if I were the driver, and if I had knocked the cyclist off his bike, I wouldn’t be too happy at taking that video in as part of my defence, as it is far from being conclusive evidence of innocence on his part.
you say “apart from the light issue” as though it`s only a minor factor 
commonrail:
cycling down a dc at night without lightsabsolutley unbelievable
I don’t think people are defending the cyclist either. See where assumptions lead to?
Taken from his own video the cyclist is visible well enough
Up to you to decide if is that not a small flashing light, I think the driver should get his eyesight checked, and I’m not defending the cyclist, the driver is on the wrong, 54 Mph, on the phone and half blind
there is no light, do you really think I would have posted a thread like this and uploaded a vid on the tube to show myself to be a lying A hole in the tallest order, get a grip man.
The 1up-manship on these forums is hilarious sometimes, people trying to make others look foolish with clever comments and regulations.
more concentrated on the conversation than looking in front of you.
I think my video clearly shows my reactions from seeing him to swerving over to avoid him were at the least more than adequate given the closing speed and visability 
del949:
I don’t think that anyone has tried to defend the cyclist.
really 