From: Mr. Benn on

"webreader" <websitereader(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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On Mar 27, 11:41 am, "Mrcheerful" <nbk...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> The Medway Handyman wrote:
> > Tony Dragon wrote:
> >> The Medway Handyman wrote:
> >>> Doug wrote:
> >>>> On 26 Mar, 09:03, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)no-spam-
> >>>> blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>>> Doug wrote:
>
> >>>>> You claim to have been rammed in this video -
>
> >>>>> ?
>
> >>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4WOmrwXPg
>
> >>>>> The video is 26 seconds long. Could you specify exactly when you
> >>>>> were rammed?
>
> >>>> When the video cuts off and causing my thumb to slip on the camera
> >>>> button. Try reading the text that accompanies the video.
>
> >>> How could you be rammed by the taxi you were filming?
>
> >> And why was he preventing the taxi's right to pass & repass?
>
> > And his right to earn a living.
>
> and if there was a passenger then I doubt that he would have seen the
> funny
> side of paying to be held up by cyclists


Doug, when are you going to comment on the acts of lawbreaking shown
in your videos that were pointed out by marie?
==================================

Doug isn't going to answer. This is Doug's way of acknowledging that he is
wrong.


From: Doug on
On 27 Mar, 10:58, Tony Dragon <tony.dra...(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
> The Medway Handyman wrote:
> > Doug wrote:
> >> On 26 Mar, 09:03, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)no-spam-
> >> blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >>> Doug wrote:
>
> >>> You claim to have been rammed in this video -
>
> >>> ?
>
> >>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4WOmrwXPg
>
> >>> The video is 26 seconds long. Could you specify exactly when you were
> >>> rammed?
>
> >> When the video cuts off and causing my thumb to slip on the camera
> >> button. Try reading the text that accompanies the video.
>
> > How could you be rammed by the taxi you were filming?
>
> And why was he preventing the taxi's right to pass & repass?
>
I wasn't.

As the video shows the taxi had been corked as it was about to turn
right, with a queue of traffic behind it, by other riders to prevent
the remaining CM riders from being blocked. I was situated so as to
leave a gap for the taxi to exit right but it drive deliberately at my
back wheel instead and the driver then gave me the finger.

It is extremely difficult trying to video a ramming as it takes place,
partly because of its quick unexpectedness and partly to get a full
view of the point of contact as it occurs.

--
Critical Mass London
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
"Get out of my way you f*ing cyclist"

From: Doug on
On 27 Mar, 12:40, webreader <websiterea...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 11:41 am, "Mrcheerful" <nbk...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> > The Medway Handyman wrote:
> > > Tony Dragon wrote:
> > >> The Medway Handyman wrote:
> > >>> Doug wrote:
> > >>>> On 26 Mar, 09:03, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)no-spam-
> > >>>> blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > >>>>> Doug wrote:
>
> > >>>>> You claim to have been rammed in this video -
>
> > >>>>> ?
>
> > >>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4WOmrwXPg
>
> > >>>>> The video is 26 seconds long. Could you specify exactly when you
> > >>>>> were rammed?
>
> > >>>> When the video cuts off and causing my thumb to slip on the camera
> > >>>> button. Try reading the text that accompanies the video.
>
> > >>> How could you be rammed by the taxi you were filming?
>
> > >> And why was he preventing the taxi's right to pass & repass?
>
> > > And his right to earn a living.
>
> > and if there was a passenger then I doubt that he would have seen the funny
> > side of paying to be held up by cyclists
>
> Doug, when are you going to comment on the acts of lawbreaking shown
> in your videos that were pointed out by marie?
>
For the reason I have given previously. A few individual law breakers
do not mean that CM as a while is lawbreaking and the same applies to
any large group.

--
Critical Mass London
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk
"Get out of my way you f*ing cyclist"



From: Mr. Benn on

"Doug" <jagmad(a)riseup.net> wrote in message
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> On 27 Mar, 10:58, Tony Dragon <tony.dra...(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
>> The Medway Handyman wrote:
>> > Doug wrote:
>> >> On 26 Mar, 09:03, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)no-spam-
>> >> blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>> Doug wrote:
>>
>> >>> You claim to have been rammed in this video -
>>
>> >>> ?
>>
>> >>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4WOmrwXPg
>>
>> >>> The video is 26 seconds long. Could you specify exactly when you were
>> >>> rammed?
>>
>> >> When the video cuts off and causing my thumb to slip on the camera
>> >> button. Try reading the text that accompanies the video.
>>
>> > How could you be rammed by the taxi you were filming?
>>
>> And why was he preventing the taxi's right to pass & repass?
>>
> I wasn't.
>
> As the video shows the taxi had been corked as it was about to turn
> right, with a queue of traffic behind it, by other riders to prevent
> the remaining CM riders from being blocked. I was situated so as to
> leave a gap for the taxi to exit right but it drive deliberately at my
> back wheel instead and the driver then gave me the finger.
>
> It is extremely difficult trying to video a ramming as it takes place,
> partly because of its quick unexpectedness and partly to get a full
> view of the point of contact as it occurs.

I hope you enjoyed it. I presume you wanted to be rammed.


From: Mrcheerful on
Doug wrote:
> On 27 Mar, 10:58, Tony Dragon <tony.dra...(a)btinternet.com> wrote:
>> The Medway Handyman wrote:
>>> Doug wrote:
>>>> On 26 Mar, 09:03, "The Medway Handyman" <davidl...(a)no-spam-
>>>> blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> Doug wrote:
>>
>>>>> You claim to have been rammed in this video -
>>
>>>>> ?
>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4WOmrwXPg
>>
>>>>> The video is 26 seconds long. Could you specify exactly when you
>>>>> were rammed?
>>
>>>> When the video cuts off and causing my thumb to slip on the camera
>>>> button. Try reading the text that accompanies the video.
>>
>>> How could you be rammed by the taxi you were filming?
>>
>> And why was he preventing the taxi's right to pass & repass?
>>
> I wasn't.
>
> As the video shows the taxi had been corked as it was about to turn
> right, with a queue of traffic behind it, by other riders to prevent
> the remaining CM riders from being blocked. I was situated so as to
> leave a gap for the taxi to exit right but it drive deliberately at my
> back wheel instead and the driver then gave me the finger.
>
> It is extremely difficult trying to video a ramming as it takes place,
> partly because of its quick unexpectedness and partly to get a full
> view of the point of contact as it occurs.

must have been a very minor contact since there is no apparent movement of
the bike