Originally Posted by
Slaninar
The guy with the camera was clueless: first speeding up, then braking and swerving to the left. Did it look like intentional provocation to the BMX guy? It might have. We just see a short part of the video from the handlebars point of view. So it's hard to say who's really right or wrong.
What swerving? At what point in that video was swerving seen?
I saw the following, basically:
- The BMX guy stopped, looking behind him in the hopes of merging into the bike traffic.
- The roadies passing the stopped BMX guy ... and they move on.
- The camera guy tucking in ~15ft behind the guy in the white shirt, who's somewhat to his left of center.
- The BMX guy tries a 1/4 pass attempt, but that's about all it can be called, running out of room as he approaches the rear of the bus. Done at a time when the camera guy is roughly ~4ft out from the edge of the buses/cars parked along the left.
- The only "tucking in" that I can see is when the camera guy approaches the guy in the white shirt, at which point he realizes he's heading a bit far out into traffic and then tucks in behind the guy.
- Several seconds later, the BMX guy comes up on the right-hand side and takes out the camera guy.
Are you saying that tucking in behind the guy in the white shirt was done spitefully, that something in the vid shows it was done for reasons other than heading a bit too far out into traffic?
Or, are you calling the BMX guy's running out of space at the back end of that bus an example of the camera guy tucking-in?
Just wondering if we're seeing the same things in that vid.
Granted, the vid is from the road guy's perspective, and who knows whether it's the full and unadulterated view. Seems to be unedited.