malnar wrote:Just got to convert it from .mov to something else so I can edit it in movie maker. Journo from The Age wants to see it.
this should be good

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Postby jules21 » Thu Jan 10, 2013 5:46 pm
malnar wrote:Just got to convert it from .mov to something else so I can edit it in movie maker. Journo from The Age wants to see it.
Postby g-boaf » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:07 pm
malnar wrote:cp123 wrote:malnar - can you post your being chased by a rabid dog video... and tell us, have you got yesterday's conversation on tape too? that would be pure gold to the authorities..... bwhahahaespecially if the owners admit it chases riders....
Get got the lot on vid. Audio very clear.
- He acknowledges that it bit,
- you can see & hear the fact that they ignore his verbal commands
- he acknowledges that they are in breach of the council rule stating that dogs attracted to moving bicycle tyres cannot be off lead.
- I said it chased me for 500m & he corrects me by saying it was more like 800 (I have to agree with his estimate),
- he said he was yelling at me to stop, & if I had, nothing would have happened.
- There's even a complaint from the wife about cyclist scaring her as they pass.
The whole thing is gold, funny, farcical and sad.
Just got to convert it from .mov to something else so I can edit it in movie maker. Journo from The Age wants to see it.
Postby fatdudeonabike » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:32 pm
Postby zero » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:31 pm
csy75 wrote:zero wrote:He is doing 55 (in your video - have to pedal hard to push 60+ there), you are doing 70.
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outstanding!
apparently you can guesstimate someone's speed off a youtube clip versus my actually being there.
if you can do that i cannot disagree on anything you say anymore, based your superior powers of observation.
i bow down before you sir.
Postby clydesmcdale » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:50 pm
fatdudeonabike wrote:I think you're thinking of Today Tonight dude.
Voice over: "Rex and Mary were out with their dog, Fido. But then tragedy struck"
Rex: "We were just out on our Sunday walk, and this cyclist came back at hundred miles an hour. He just had no regard for any of us."
Voice over: "You can see from the video here as the cyclist narrowly misses Fido. Fido chases to remonstrate, as Mary falls into shock."
Rex: "We couldn't do anything. Fido's upset because he nearly got run over. Mary's upset because the cyclist sped past only 5 metres away from where we were walking. The guy was a madman!"
Voice over: "Fido gave great chase, bravely going head to head with the cyclist that had tried to kill him."
Rex: "They're just good for nothing. They run over people walking on bike... I mean footpaths. They get themselves killed on the road. They should just ban the lot of them"
Naomi Robson: "It really does make you wonder, doesn't it? When will the Government outlaw bicycles?
Postby ColinOldnCranky » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:20 pm
jules21 wrote:
this guy went off-tap when i rode around him, while he crossed in front of me. he kept insisting i should have warned him by sounding my bell. i couldn't believe this and had to watch the video later to see if it was worse than i thought it was at the time, but i don't think so.
Postby fatdudeonabike » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:39 pm
twizzle wrote:fatdudeonabike wrote:Driving up a busy 2 lane road in Canberra (Gungahlin Drive for locals) this afternoon... the road should be 3 lanes, and the 2 lanes they have aren't wide enough. ...
Which part of GD? The only narrow bit I can think of is the section at the first lights in Mitchell when heading North, but the morons in charge have FINALLY provided a slip lane up to the shared pathway when the on-road lane ends. Although getting back onto the road on the other side of the lights to get to the on-road lane that starts after the lights that easy.
No - cyclists don't have to use the shared pathway, but they *do* have to use an on-road lane if provided, unless "impractical", ie. you cut across lanes to turn at an intersection.
Postby jules21 » Thu Jan 10, 2013 9:50 pm
ColinOldnCranky wrote:In fairness to the guy, while he was wrong and unreasonable in his assessment at least he didn't seem to go off.
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Postby ColinOldnCranky » Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:04 am
malnar wrote:cp123 wrote:malnar - can you post your being chased by a rabid dog video... and tell us, have you got yesterday's conversation on tape too? that would be pure gold to the authorities..... bwhahahaespecially if the owners admit it chases riders....
Get got the lot on vid. Audio very clear.
- He acknowledges that it bit,
- you can see & hear the fact that they ignore his verbal commands
- he acknowledges that they are in breach of the council rule stating that dogs attracted to moving bicycle tyres cannot be off lead.
- I said it chased me for 500m & he corrects me by saying it was more like 800 (I have to agree with his estimate),
- he said he was yelling at me to stop, & if I had, nothing would have happened.
- There's even a complaint from the wife about cyclist scaring her as they pass.
The whole thing is gold, funny, farcical and sad.
Just got to convert it from .mov to something else so I can edit it in movie maker. Journo from The Age wants to see it.
Postby outnabike » Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:03 pm
jules21 wrote:ColinOldnCranky wrote:In fairness to the guy, while he was wrong and unreasonable in his assessment at least he didn't seem to go off.
thanks colin. actually, the mic doesn't pick up most of what he's saying. he wasn't abusive, but he was carrying on like a pork chop. he was really incredulous that i would just pass him like that. oh well
Postby il padrone » Sun Jan 13, 2013 12:51 pm
Postby Mulger bill » Sun Jan 13, 2013 5:12 pm
Postby cp123 » Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:08 pm
Postby gretaboy » Mon Jan 14, 2013 2:42 pm
cp123 wrote:CW/Adelaide Ave Southbound, Thursday afternoon last week. After a week of 38 degrees or so days and doing a couple of late shifts, I was dribbing home on Thursday evening. Now I'm not real quick anyway,and all the boy racers pass me every morning and every night, but I was probably even more cruisey this night. Anyway, Mr young subcontinent looking lad with the yellow shirt and long black tights on passes me just before the lights near the croquet club in canberra. Trouble is, our lights went red approximately 30 seconds before he got there, but he did a quick scan and took off through the red one anyway.
So i pulled up and waited my turn because i'm not one of "them".I did happen to notice that ever pedal left he swung his bike 45 degrees left and every pedal right was the same - so he was weaving significantly with every pedal stroke. So finally the lights changed and off i struggle up towards the parliament house tunnel. But as I was around near the Canberra Avenue exit I saw he hadn't actually really gotten too far away from me (I guess its road bike gearing vs Huffy or similar). anyway, so then the chase was on. Well, not really,
but as i got to the downhill bit past the lodge i did start to gain on him. I crossed the killing zone at Hopetoun Circuit and was bearing down on him. he had just crossed the killing zone at the Kent street turn off and was still rocking his bike from side to side madly. But he was travelling right next to the left gutter which is at least a car width or so to the left of the killing zone. So I stayed straight in the green lane and thought beauty, here was the opportunity to pass and get away from him.
So I was approximately 4 foot on his right hand side and in the bike lane (just approaching the cotter road exit). Without so much as a turn of his head he decided to swing right and pull into the green lane so he could go straight over cotter road. in that last nanosecond before i thought i was toast he came in at me from 45 degrees left and i saw and heard loud music blaring from his earplugs. I roared LOOOOOOKOUT and he grabbed his brakes and by a bee's whisker i made it past him. i looked back and went "bloodyellareyoufriggingstupid" or something similar and just shook my head.
he was obviously off with the fairies or didn't think he needed to look. i honestly thought i was going down into the leftmost car lane. and it was seriously damn lucky that i didn't. I'll be more careful next time.
Postby Summernight » Mon Jan 14, 2013 3:39 pm
Postby cp123 » Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:57 pm
gretaboy wrote:[
On the upside...you got a CCR scalp
Postby fatdudeonabike » Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:46 pm
Postby skull » Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:28 pm
fatdudeonabike wrote:- eventually he gets jack of having to dodge buses. So just sits in the middle lane, because the traffic apparently doesnt suck enough already.
Postby fatdudeonabike » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:15 pm
skull wrote:fatdudeonabike wrote:- eventually he gets jack of having to dodge buses. So just sits in the middle lane, because the traffic apparently doesnt suck enough already.
He must have been going slow to make a difference as the it is easy enough to keep pace with the sucky Northbourne Ave congestion in the morning.
Postby PB12IN » Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:15 pm
Postby m@ » Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:51 pm
fatdudeonabike wrote:skull wrote:He must have been going slow to make a difference as the it is easy enough to keep pace with the sucky Northbourne Ave congestion in the morning.
He was ducking between cars, getting to the front of the queue, and then holding the lane up when the light went green. Absolute peanut.
Postby Howzat » Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:04 pm
PB12IN wrote:Dumb cyclist = Me
Out riding with a friend on some country roads out the back of nowhere, he says to me, “Want to try my bike?” me riding a Giant Defy with Sora gears, him having a Lynsky with Ultegra Di2. Says to me “just don’t crash it” I get on and look down to see what is happening with the gears. And veer strait off the road on to the steep gravel shoulder. Thankfully I managed to get back up on the road without falling.
Umm Whoops…
Postby find_bruce » Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:17 pm
PB12IN wrote:Dumb cyclist = my friend
Out riding with a friend on some country roads out the back of nowhere, he says to me, “Want to try my bike?” me riding a Giant Defy with Sora gears, him having a Lynsky with Ultegra Di2. Says to me “just don’t crash it” I get on and look down to see what is happening with the gears. And veer strait off the road on to the steep gravel shoulder. Thankfully I managed to get back up on the road without falling.
Umm Whoops…
Postby wexford » Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:53 pm
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