The Sarge:
Here, see how close you can get to this truck - and leave us in peace…___________¶
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Brilliant! 
magnatom:
MrHappy:
And if we’re all very quiet…ssshhhhhhh… and just ignore him, he’ll get bored and go away. The Karma Police get us all in the end don’t forget
I actually agree with what you said earlier, the thread isn’t too bad, and some fair points have been made. I have no problem with debate and reasoned argument, even if it takes a long time to show you all I am always right…
Have to agree with you being right about the truck being too close in your OP… But in the video which has been posted later either by yourself or another member, i can’t remember, with the tanker on the roundabout i would say that that incident was caused by as much your fault as perhaps the tanker drivers, your positioning on the approach to the roundabout was in totally the wrong lane for your intended travel and should of been in the offside of the right hand lane instead of on the near side the left hand lane especially as there was no traffic causing a danger to you on your approach. As a professional driver your line would of said you intended to take the first exit and not the third as you actually did. It comes to a point when a truck driver has committed to a maneuver that the driver has to decide that it could be more dangerous to try stopping than to carry on as planned. As has already been said a bicycle has a right to use the whole lane as much as any other road user so perhaps you can forward plan it more next time to your advantage.
But roads are too danger for a lorry drivers. I think you should drive on pavement.
I believe the phrase you are looking for Orys is:
KEEP DEATH OFF THE ROADS, DRIVE ON THE PAVEMENT!
‘Crazytrucker’
Oh, by the way, why is it cyclists and more particularly the horse fratenity demand respect from us, but show none in return? 
They walk along two abreast and we have to put up with not only their ignorance but also their arrogance which seems to be the usual combination. And as an aside we have a horse ■■■■■ that allows her steed to dump all over our park with impunity, yet if our mutts dump and we don’t pick up after it we are treated like lepers?
Wheel Nut:
This crap is tantamount to breaching the forum rules on identifying drivers by registration numbers, not directly but through various godbothering, cycling sites and YouTube of course.The title needs deleting along with the rest of the thread, it serves no purpose other than to bully and abuse!
Through this knob riding along with a pre planned agenda, there may be three kids sat at home with no food on the table now
The voice of sanity WN, next to my own post just about sums it all up! Well said that man!
‘Crazytrucker’
I’m a trucker and a keen cyclist (Itake the bike to work with me as well to use when parked up).
The truck was far too close but I cant for the life of me think why you were not using the empty pavement? Surely its about minimizing the risk to yourself?
Looks a bit like an enviroment agency logo on the side but couldnt say for sure.
Thanks for the help guys. I didn’t know that the DVLA would provide the information about the company. However, I know for a fact who the company was now and have contacted them. My letter is on my blog (magnatom.net/2011/03/very-cl … laint.html)
As for winding people up?! I really do get confused by this. I came on an HGV forum, asking a question about an HGV and I am acused of winding people up? I think you’ll find that some on here wind themselves up, just because of my mode of transport. Change my mode of transport and the response would be different.
Shame really.
Use the pavement? It’s illegal, oh and the pavement along there gets very thin and is in a very poor state of repair anyway.
As for my tanker incident and the suggestions that I was in the wrong lane? 
Please have a look at the video and tell me how many marked lanes are there on that roundabout and on the approach? Also if if I could be bothered I could post the google view of the roundabout which shows (looking at the dirt on the road, i.e. clean road is where the traffic is) you can see I follow exactly the line of traffic through that roundabout.
I do sometimes ask myself, should I listen to the advice of random internet road safety experts, or should I listen to the opinion of the police as to who was at fault in this incident…hmmmmmmm.
magnatom:
Use the pavement? It’s illegal, oh and the pavement along there gets very thin and is in a very poor state of repair anyway.
The poor state I will go with as that may be unsafe but illegal… technically yes but I’ve yet to come across anyone who has been done for cycling on a pavement when there is no-one else around
It seems that with the amount of traffic on our roads these days the authorities are taking a more relaxed view on certain laws such as cycling on the pavement when safe to do so and not causing inconvenience to other pavement users
Well, if you don’t want to listen, I’ll refer you to my previous post…
Did someone with any sort of authority on here, say something?! 
should have stayed away from it .
magnatom:
Did someone with any sort of authority on here, say something?!
Nope, I just think you are abusing the hospitality now. You’ve done your best to get somebody fired, so now I think we’d be grateful if you jog on…
There really is no point in any of us continuing this argument with this fella, he’s got an answer for eveything, more ‘links’ than an anchor chain and is becoming a complete bore. I capitulated yesterday just to try and get him to disappear and if everyone follows suit hopefully he will. He did try to conceal his smugness in the victory that I handed him through utter boredom, but failed with his last comment, so please ignore any further posts from him cos to be honest, i’m on the verge of wanting to run over some cyclists in retaliation.
Thanks very much 
The Sarge:
magnatom:
Did someone with any sort of authority on here, say something?!Nope, I just think you are abusing the hospitality now. You’ve done your best to get somebody fired, so now I think we’d be grateful if you jog on…
+1
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Mr Happy, much sense you are making! Leaving alone idiots I will be
magnatom:
Thanks for the help guys. I didn’t know that the DVLA would provide the information about the company.As for winding people up?!
Shame really.
Yes for £2.50 the DVLA will give your details to anyone.
“winding up” I could not careless about you.
What you do need to do and I recommend it to any anti truck people, is to go a sit in a HGV.
The blind spots will shock you and you will never want to get with in 100 feet of a HGV again.
If you do then more fool you but it will be on camera. Your last monments.
Please stay clean.
Magnatom might be interested in this, it’s something my employer did about a month ago for cycle/lorry awareness;
agg-net.com/news/mpa-cycle-s … -in-oxford
Be interseting to see what he thinks of that…
Muckaway:
Magnatom might be interested in this, it’s something my employer did about a month ago for cycle/lorry awareness;
agg-net.com/news/mpa-cycle-s … -in-oxford
Be interseting to see what he thinks of that…
I think these sort of incidents are brilliant. In this case it’s HGV drivers and cyclists learning from each other which is brilliant and exactly what it is all about. Mutual respect from both sides, I would absolutely love to get some experience of driving an HGV, and have said this on many occasions. I’d certainly be open to offers!
Truckerjimbo, yes I certainly know about the blind spots (although haven’t actually seen then for myself). I will never filter down the left of an HGV unless it is very obviously stopped in heavy traffic, and only when it is in the right lane of two. I also prefer to sit behind an HGV in a queue than disappear below the front of the cab.
Do mirrors help at the front?
As for abusing hospitality, some have certainly shown it, others have not.
In fact Muckaway, you have given me an excellent idea! I think I will suggest that the company that owned the HGV in my incident takes part in a similar event. Can only be good all round.
How can they refuse?! 
magnatom:
Thanks for the help guys. I didn’t know that the DVLA would provide the information about the company. However, I know for a fact who the company was now and have contacted them. My letter is on my blog (magnatom.net/2011/03/very-cl … laint.html)As for winding people up?! I really do get confused by this. I came on an HGV forum, asking a question about an HGV and I am acused of winding people up? I think you’ll find that some on here wind themselves up, just because of my mode of transport. Change my mode of transport and the response would be different.
Shame really.
Use the pavement? It’s illegal, oh and the pavement along there gets very thin and is in a very poor state of repair anyway.
As for my tanker incident and the suggestions that I was in the wrong lane?
I do sometimes ask myself, should I listen to the advice of random internet road safety experts, or should I listen to the opinion of the police as to who was at fault in this incident…hmmmmmmm.
Touch a nerve about the roundabout did I ? Ok so there are no white hazard lines but the size of the junction should give half a clue to most people of what position they should be in to take the third exit. As my little picture taken from your video shows is that you were taking the shortest route across the roundabout instead of the correct onewhich i have denoted with a red line and which should of been the proper approach with the yellow one by signalling right with your arm perhaps on approach■■? As you can see the road surface is still clean where the yellow line is starting from so shouldn’t of been any danger.
Whilst on the subject, on your blogs about cycle lanes being dangerous due to parked cars etc,why did you not use the one on the road that you travelling along before the roundabout as i didn’t notice any dangers along that one?? You seem to like using most of the road when it suits you but not when it could show some benefit to other road users…
I don’t profess to being a road safety expert either, just somebody that has passed a car test, Category C test, Category CE test and have also recently undertaken MiDAS training to drive a school minibus so believe i have a fair understanding of a good driving practise. As i said in my original post i do think that your original video showed bad road usage by the tipper driver but it’s not always lorries that are wrong:roll:
It’s also possible that that is why the Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) decided there was insufficient evidence as perhaps they saw the same as me, perhaps i can get a job with them?? 
