He was completely unrepresentative of any cyclists on b3ta
Every cyclist that posts here is extremely careful when they break the law and endanger other people's lives and they only do it because they are forced to do so by those evil, polluting, inconsiderate car drivers anyway.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 9:51, 1 reply)

Your automatic assumption seems to be that the cyclist was deliberately being a dick, rather than simply being a shockingly-bad road user; I tend more towards Hanlon's Razor in such cases. I can't imagine any cyclist would want to deliberately crash into anything at speed.

Careless, stupid, and selfish people exist in all forms of transport - and if you're going to be hit by one, it's probably better if he's on a bike, rather than in a car. Red light jumping is, of course, daft - if you really can't wait, dismount and use the pedestrian crossing - but at least in this case, everyone walked away.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 12:51, closed)

Hanlon's Razor is all well and good
But being stupid while in charge of a vehicle means that you necessarily put other people at risk, therefore it's (albeit unintentionally) malicious behaviour
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 15:31, closed)