Even after braking hard enough that their tires squealed, they were still carrying speed through the intersection. Very thankful that they started paying attention in time to miss me and that the truck behind me was turning instead of going straight. Otherwise, there's no way they would've avoided them.
Also ignore the random date on my front cam. Its been doing this weird thing where sometimes the date and time settings get reset if the battery gets fully drained, and I didn't notice it until looking at the footage from today.

In June this year I cycled 350 miles across England and Wales to recreate the journey taken by "Number Six", the protagonist of the 1960's British spy-fi series "The Prisoner". Along the way I shot this film based on the show's famous opening titles!

This morning's close call was ridiculously close to putting me in the hospital, or possibly the morgue. The only reason I didn't get smashed was because I started to pull over for the police siren, which gave the moron juuuust enough room to squeeze between me and the truck to my left. (The officer and I have had spats in the past. I've flipped him off multiple times for close passes and trying to enforce non-existent laws. He's out of his jurisdiction and has attempted to pull people over multiple times outside his city and outside his authority. However, this time he might have saved my life.)

This is a 35 mph section of road that goes past multiple schools and is popular with the MTB community as a go-between two different trail systems.

I shudder to think what would have happened if I'd been six inches to the left, or if there had been a group of children crossing the street down the road.

Hi everyone, fellow sensible cyclist here. I was driving 20mph when there were two cyclists ahead of me, each of them were on the left with one in front of the other. The one at the front decided to suddenly start veering right with zero indication nor hand signals etc. and then was in line with my right headlight and suddenly started slowing down, again with no indication at all of the manoeuvre. At this point I was driving about 15mph I checked on the dash, as he was slowing down I could not tell his next move as he was pedalling and braking pedalling and braking and I sped up to 20mph and moved slightly to the left to pass him as he was clearly not riding properly. However, at this point the other cyclist from the start of the story was on the left side and I did get slightly close to him unfortunately, I would estimate about a metre away. He then followed me and started taking pictures of my car and plates. I wanted to talk to him to explain but there wasn’t enough time. What is the verdict here given the situation, and am I likely to face punishment should this go to court etc. Thanks in advance.

The nhow Hotel in Amsterdam RAI presents a unique contemporary architectural art. Here is my POV take over bike.

Hello everybody, here is my cycling asmr POV:  https://youtu.be/kq7uUkP4fcY

Original post here: https://old.reddit.com/r/BikeCammers/comments/1ihm8k6/warning_drift_innovation_ghost_does_not_honor/

After exhausting all the consumer protection options available to me and none of the seller platforms associated with Drift Innovations would take any reasonable action, I decided to go all-in on this as a learning exercise at the very least and figure out what it would take to engage in litigation against this company. I wasn't necessarily hoping to get any money back, it would be nice, but this was more about principle at this point and I had the spare time and money* to bother figuring out the process.

*I decided that if the process took more than the total spend of what the original camera and accessories were I would just abandon it altogether and finally put it to rest. This was around $350.

I looked up information on small claims court in the UK and to make a long story short, the automated online process will not accept any claim without a UK address. I tried to email the court directly to see about this barrier and if I could use a postbox but never received a reply.

I used UK Gov's Find a Solicitor website to contact some law offices (many of which are close to Drift's registered UK address) in the area of consumer protection. I didn't get a lot of response which is fair, this is small potatoes in comparison but the responses I did get ranged in estimates of 600GBP all the way up to 1500GBP to take any action. They also informed me that in small claims, you cannot recoup legal costs in addition to the claim being made.

So I decided to register for a postbox service to get a local address (I also looked into a phone forwarding service for a UK phone number but ended up not needing it) and went forward with the small court claim thinking "this is the last ditch effort, it can't hurt." I didn't pay for the postbox up front, it was a per-use service if something was mailed to me. The filing fee for the small claims court was 70GBP or around $94 (I did end up having a couple letters sent to me by the court, basically the result of the judgement in duplicate that I did pay to have processed which was around $7).

As you can see from the original post, I had an extremely detailed timeline, all support correspondence, receipts, emails, etc that I added to the claim. I attached it all and hit submit with no expectations whatsoever.

A month later, I had a default judgement against the company and a court order for an amount that included:

• The original price of the equipment plus the memory card they destroyed during the RMA
• Cost of the return I paid to the post office
• Interest the claims website asked me to calculate over 649(!!) days since the RMA was confirmed and not fulfilled
• Time over the 2.5 years I spent out of my day communicating with their support people AKA frustration fee (I didn't get all of this but I did get a good amount)
• The court claim fee ended up being included in the judgement

Now some astute readers may notice that I'm out an additional $100 with nothing but an official piece of paper to show for it. The company stopped responding to emails from me years ago so I'm basically in the same position; I can't force them to pay.

Even so, I reached out to their support team via their website, opened a new case in their Zendesk and explained what occurred. When I received the automated response, I replied and submitted the default judgement document and to my surprise they responded they would pay it.

I was shocked to be honest. There was some initial back and forth about method, they wanted to do a bank transfer (HAH I'm not giving you my bank account information) or Paypal (ugh) and I inquired why this was the case. They admitted to having zero staff in the UK and based on their admission on where their stock comes from, and the timeline of responses always taking +13 hours, whoever I was corresponding with was in China. A lot of payment services are blocked in China, Venmo, Zelle etc.

I tried jumping through the Paypal hoops but that's its own story (never fucking use Paypal, what a shit company) so I opened a brand new account with separate Account and Routing info from my main Checking account and provided that and they transmitted payment. Justice.

I just purchased the Cycliq Fly12 (with all the add-ons/mount/etc) with the judgement amount. Feels good man.

I saw this biker guy from the window in south west norway with 3 friends. I waved him, and he waved me back. Then he came back and we saw each other again.

Just wanna say hi😂

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to grab the plate number...