CyclingMikey named by Daily Mail as one of the “top villains of 2024” – alongside the Post Office, VAR, Oasis, Gregg Wallace… and Paddington Bear

There is no possibility that video from CM and other cycling cammers can be 'edited' to make it look as if it has been taken by a respectable driver - even apart from the rather reasonable view that severely edited video is unlikely to be accepted as evidence

oh you've misunderstood, i don't mean trying to trick people into thinking they're watching a car and i definitely don't mean footage submitted to the police. i just mean adding a timestamp and perhaps cropping it slightly before posting it on sm

If it's 'on the road' it's still going to be obvious it's a cyclecam

sorry i don't know how to explain it any clearer than i have

Car Delenda Est wrote:

'content creators' who ride around trying to find crimes to monitise.

"Filthy lycra weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!"

Car Delenda Est wrote:

dashcam footage uploaders

"Splendid fellows, brave heroes, risking their no-claims bonus for Blighty!"

Are there any dashcammer channels ? And not the compilation ones I mean equivalent to Mikey or Vine in terms of content and as a personal channel.

I presume there must be, just never bothered looking for any.

For me there's never an issue in having to hunt for incidents, any standard length bike ride will have multiple reportable incidents recorded on camera. Which is why I'm always perplexed when lots of the content the bike cammers produce are not the style of things I'd have bothered even noting during a ride.

That's when it feels like content for content sake and about feeding the monetisation algorithms.

There's the The London Dash Cam - he has it in for cyclists.

Part of the reason for posting stuff you see as ordinary is to highlight the problems that cyclists face, as there are plenty of people who think drivers are very law abiding and cyclists are not. Bear in mind what may be water off a duck's back to an experienced cyclist is very off putting to a casual one.

I can only hope for a cumulative effect on drivers in the long term to change their behaviours.

But is there like a car channel who posts never ending clips of cars pulling out at junctions, roundabouts, cutting across lanes stuff, jumping red lights?

And the only reason I ignore the minor stuff on the roads, is because the major stuff more than makes up for it in bucketloads.

But we rarely see the major stuff covered as often by these channels, and it's the major stuff that kills people.

I often think of compiling a set of worst stuff I've captured of the year, but life's too short to waste the time on it.

Ruby dash cam, exposed UK dash cam, UK dash cam all do yearly or monthly round ups.
Probably the best option to see major stuff.

Dashcams UK on Facebook, about 20% of the footage is from cyclists' helmet cams 😂

More karma points if he was reading the DM on his phone.

I wouldn't imagine that anyone working there actually reads their own "newspaper".  They all understand that it's best use is as backup toilet paper...

Rome73 wrote:

What a load of upside down blx really. The person who witnesses and reports a crime is a 'villian' and the person who commits the crime and is filmed doing so is a victim. Only in the unspeak of the media is such blx possible. I doubt a regular Mail reader would understand the paradox going on there. 

Whether you are the villain or the victim also depends on your wealth and/or 'type'* in the world of the Mail, I suspect...

*Yes, that is a euphemism.

Rome73 wrote:

The person who witnesses and reports a crime is a 'villian' and the person who commits the crime and is filmed doing so is a victim.

Until drivers stop seeing phone use whilst driving, speeding, etc., as 'victimless crimes', I doubt that this attitude will change, unfortunately.

You mean the 4th Viscount Rothermere? I don't know that there's too much dirt on him, but there's an interesting family history around the 1930s and 40s...

I believe he bleats on about patriotism whilst not paying taxes, as he is non-dom

Not really "dirt" but definitely an abuse of his position I'd say: he directed the DM's campaign against the Kensington High Street cycle lane, led by his friend and convicted drunk driver Nigel Havers, because he thought it would delay his 1.5 mile chauffeur-driven limousine journey from his Holland Park mansion to the DM headquarters in Derry Street, just the other side of KHS.

Not so simple. Assuming that heś UK resident (unlike his father) he´ll almost certainly be deemed UK domiciled and therefore not a non-dom for tax purposes (at least since 2017). The offshore trust arrangements will mean that a large chunk of DMGT shares are likely outside of UK IHT, but that will change come 6 April this year. 

However, itś worth pointing out that the fact that he does pay his taxes now is due to successive rule changes (under both the Tories and Labour) rather than any choice he´s made.

Well that was my mistake - choosing to pay tax.

On the other hand that choice is more sustainable the more money you have - to pay people to ensure that is fine under the rules. Or too much effort to thoroughly check!

Certainly up until at least 2022 he was still claming non-dom status by having France as his domicile of origin, being born in Paris where his old man lived most of his life to avoid tax. As I understand it (which is not very much) nondom status is being removed for those domiciled in the UK for at least fifteen of the last twenty years; not sure whether that applies to him or not.

I´d be surprised if he wasn´t deemed domiciled from 2017 (when the 15 of 20 year rule was brought in), unless he had a few years of non-UK residence. This would mean that he could not claim the remittance basis, whereby non-UK income (and gains) are not taxed unless brought into the UK. This is most likely to be relevant to distributions from the offshore trust which owns most of the DMGT Plc shares. I must emphasise, though, that if he brings funds into the UK to live on (which he would very likely need to do) then he´d pay tax on this (when UK resident).

The change from 6 April this year does away with domicle altogther, and it´s very unlikely that Rothemere would be able to take advantage of the new regime. It will also mean that the DMGT Plc shares in trust will be subject to IHT, which they probably would not have been before.

Boopop wrote:

I appreciate what he does and all but he blocked me on twitter after I called out one of his friends for telling a fellow cycling advocate to "f### off" when she claimed they were being ablest. I met him in person at an LCC event in the past few years, suffice to say I was seemingly the only one not fawning over him.

Reminds of that Jimmy Carr story where a woman accused him of being fattist. "I think you'll find you're fattest" he replied.

He blocked me as well, as he disagreed with me when I said that if you're wheelieing down the road, you're not completely in control of your bike. 

Well, if we're sharing these stories he didn't block me but unfollowed and refused to to speak to me because I said that I didn't like the guy (can't remember his name) who cycles round London with his cat (Sigrid, remember that) in the front basket, primarily it seems for TikTok clicks, because I thought it was putting the cat in unnecessary danger just to show off. It's a shame because I support Mikey's cause and actions and have robustly defended him - and still do - against his detractors but it seems he's definitely not the best at accepting contradictory opinions to his own.

I like Sigrid and Travis, I've met them in person and he inspired me with a better solution for taking my cat to the vet.

That said, everyone's allowed to have an opinion and deciding not to talk to you because you said you didn't like someone seems rather childish!