If that's what gets on your nerves, you have a very fortunate life.

I don't think it's the pass itself that perhaps bothered the OP. This just shows how drivers stricken with MGIF get tunnel vision. There is clearly stop sign a few seconds ahead and the driver decides to pass anyway. Life-altering? No. Big Deal? Nope. Stupid? Yeah.

Also, how do I say this acronym out loud? You know, when I'm with the homies, do I say "Em Gif", "Em Jif", "Em Gee Eye Eff", etc.?

Yea....no, I don't get it. Who's Fred? OP or driver? Motorists can't be Freds. Or can they?

I replied,

That's pretty much what I thought. I found the original post and some of the follow up entertaining. More interesting than some threads.

White people problems.

OP... that wasn't worth documenting. I don't believe the motorist was anymore careless than you were by rolling through that first stop sign. I didn't have a problem with you rolling through... and I don't have a problem with the motorist going around you without any oncoming traffic. I was expecting something more like this in the video: (starting at 1:10 to 1:15)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAuktN2N10

^^^ that's the stuff that worries me.

Driving in the middle again with bell bottom pants on...they couldn't stand to look.....so they passed you.

I'd guess the motorist wanted to get in front of the cyclist (maybe to force the cyclist to stop at the stop sign). But once ahead of the bike.... lost sight of him in the blind spot and was afraid to return to the same lane the cyclist had been in.

Often times.... motorist mis-guessamate the speed of a cyclist and then use there accelerator to "fix things". At any given time... some number of motorists aren't having their best day. The more time you spend on the road... the more bad drives you will seem to see.

So typical. How about the van driving all the way to the stop sign in the parking lot entry lane, risking a head-on collision?
The yellow divider line is easy to see for those who care to look.

Where do you guys think a car is going to swerve while trying to avoid the head-on?

There might be some deliberate aggression in these videos, it's hard to tell. But yeah, I'd be famous if someone uploaded a video with my license plate on it every time I did something stupid.

I see pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists do stupid things fairly often with no negative results. Shedding a virtual tear over each one isn't going to fix it, or make anyone sleep better. Especially when the OP is a stop blowing hypocrite.....not that it matters as it was also a non event unworthy of documentation.

I suppose some people can't come to terms with the fact that they're just as imperfect as the rest of us, and must compensate by obsessing over the imperfections of others.

As an aside, [MENTION=396692]Buffalo Buff[/MENTION], are all your videos shot with a GoPro Session? When I was researching them it seemed that it didn't have quite as good image quality as the Hero 3/4, especially in low light. I ended up going with the Hero 4 Silver (don't have it yet, wife has it hidden somewheres :D ). Hopefully it works well.

Some drivers can't stand to be behind other vehicles, whether it's a bike, a truck or another car. I drive a small car (VW Golf) and this happens all the time. Other driver passes me, then slows down or turns. It's similar to drivers who have to be in the fast lane, even if they are going exactly the speed limit or slower.

The way some people drive, I am continuously amazed that there are not more accidents.

I cant imagine spending time to record my ride to and from a big box store, then edit it, upload it to youtube, then post about it on a message board when this is all that happened.
Seems like a lot of effort for what I watched.
Speaking of and thinking about it, I also cant believe I just read 2 pages on the video and am now commenting on it. I would like to say I have better things to do, but...

Some people (a LOT of people on YT actually) record ALL their rides, and then upload clips of anything out of the ordinary that happens.

Check out Traffic Droid's channel from the UK. The OP's video is nothing compared to what this guy uploads. https://www.youtube.com/user/SonofthewindsInc/videos

Just seems like a lot of effort for the result.


I get uploading accidents, some guy almost running you off the road while you can see him texting, or some odd part of your ride like a crazy intersection or something like that.
I get uploading great rides with great scenery.

It just seems like taking the time to get bent out of shape to upload the video that started this thread is a stretch. If this is the threshold for getting so upset that its uploaded to youtube and a thread is started, it seems like the OP is getting angry a lot in life. This is a pile of beans, not a mountain.

But hey, all of us have different tolerance levels and are outraged at some random things when critiqued by others.

I understand what you mean. Some of those guys in the UK upload a video for a car's front tires encroaching on the ASL (their version of the "bike box") which IMHO is stupid. The theory is that with the video containing the car's plate info, if something bad does happen, that plate can be searched on the internet to see if the particular car (and likely that motorist) is something of a habitual offender.

I don't think it's as effective in areas of the US where almost no one cycles. In the UK and other parts of Europe with lots and lots of cyclists, I could see it being helpful.

OMG! A video record of "not good driving behavior". Stop the presses for this hot scoop!!

I record every single ride. It took me less than two minutes to connect my go pro to my wifi, drag and drop one video file to my browser, then click upload. It took less effort than the post you just typed ;)

What a strange mentality. So if you ever point out anything in life that you do not agree with in full, does that mean you are "outraged?" In the video I said "Really?" and moved on with my life. That doesn't strike me as very outraged :)

I have a few older biking videos shot with a handheld HD cam, but I think only one of those is uploaded to my newest channel. So anything you see on that channel that's under 25 minutes long, the answer is yes, it's the session.

Didn't seem like a big deal to me. Brush it off and ride happy.

Agreed. It seems like to much hassle for me, but I suppose it gets simple with experience.

"Angry a lot in life"? How do you know this of the OP?

Can someone point to the OP's outrage, anger, or getting bent out of shape over this? I'm not seeing it.

Oh, it's a big deal... to those piling on the OP for posting it.

That is how I interpreted this and other postings with uploaded footage. I certainly wouldnt think the OP decided to upload the video and start the thread because he was happy. I would say its because he was irked. Miffed. Slighted. Etc etc etc.
And so going on that premise, that the OP didnt upload and post the video out of happiness, then it was uploaded for what reason?

I cant imagine focusing on the simple act of being slightly cut off while on the road to the point that I upload video of it. But like I said earlier, I also cant believe I am commenting on other people's video of the very event I wouldnt upload.

It has been my experience that if someone is driven to film, upload, and start a thread about the simple and common occurrence of being ever so slightly cut off because they were passed too late to not be affected at all, then the rest of life is only that much more filled with outrage and injustice. If this is what happens when a vehicle passes in a manner the OP dislikes, then what happens when a vehicle turns right on red when they arent supposed to or when a vehicle enters an intersection as the light turns red? Can the OP even function at that point, or are they so miffed at the poor driving that they simply cant handle it?
...this last paragraph is joking...sorta. Not really, but kinda. Just a lot of effort to document and discuss something that happens all over the place in every town in America every hour of the day- driving while not always thinking of all others around you.