t's time for the second season of the road.cc Podcast in association with Altura, and to kick things off we're speaking to none other than the king of camera cyclists Mike van Erp, better known as CyclingMikey (link is external). How does one man with a busy day job have time to make all those submissions to the police, and how does he feel about being wrongly dubbed a 'vigilante'?

We first became aware of Van Erp a number of years ago thanks to his YouTube channel, where he regularly uploads footage of drivers texting at the wheel, speeding, close passing... and perhaps most famously, telling drivers who decide to cut a corner on the wrong side of the road to "go back" at a spot outside Regent's Park that is now known as Gandalf Corner.

He now reports hundreds of drivers a year, recently scoring a points victory over Chris Eubank and filming Frank Lampard with his phone in hand at the wheel. The latter was thrown out due to lack of evidence, despite the footage showing Lampard driving his Mercedes G-Class with a cup of coffee in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.

“…I have no personal feelings about Frank Lampard at all," says Van Erp.

"A few months after I caught him, I was riding through Hyde Park with an autistic friend of mine. He recognised Frank and wanted to have a photo with him, and he was very happy about it.

“Frank was very kind and willing to spend time with him."
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How does Van Erp have time to report so many drivers alongside his day job and other commitments?

"It does take some discipline and some practice. What I do is I have a habit of as soon as I come home, I stick the memory cards in my computer and then the files get downloaded onto my import drive. From there I will extract any occurrences from throughout the day and place them in a project folder..

"From there the remainder is really easy. I cut out the piece of video for the incident, give it the same sort of naming schema and make a report from that.

"I don’t spend too much time on this, I have a job and a life and stuff I want to do in my own spare time too. Each incident takes me about 10 to 15 minutes maybe."

And what about those who accuse Van Erp of looking for trouble?

"Now Gandalf Corner, that’s fair enough. When it’s busy… then I will go for an hour or so before work. And that’s mostly because it’s just so dangerous what those drivers are doing.

"I don’t think many people realise how many of our friends are cycling and training around Regent’s Park, and how much risk they are put at by these wrong-side drivers.

"That’s about the only time I do go out and look for stuff. The rest of the time I may take an extra pass along a busy line of traffic if I have a few spare minutes before a work appointment. But apart from that it’s really when I’m just going from place to place."

https://road.cc/content/news/cyclingmikey-episode-16-roadcc-podcast-289665

swldx...@gmail.com wrote:
> t's time for the second season of the road.cc Podcast in association
> with Altura, and to kick things off we're speaking to none other than
> the king of camera cyclists Mike van Erp, better known as
> CyclingMikey (link is external). How does one man with a busy day job
> have time to make all those submissions to the police, and how does
> he feel about being wrongly dubbed a 'vigilante'?
>
> We first became aware of Van Erp a number of years ago thanks to his
> YouTube channel, where he regularly uploads footage of drivers
> texting at the wheel, speeding, close passing... and perhaps most
> famously, telling drivers who decide to cut a corner on the wrong
> side of the road to "go back" at a spot outside Regent's Park that is
> now known as Gandalf Corner.
>
> He now reports hundreds of drivers a year, recently scoring a points
> victory over Chris Eubank and filming Frank Lampard with his phone in
> hand at the wheel. The latter was thrown out due to lack of evidence,
> despite the footage showing Lampard driving his Mercedes G-Class with
> a cup of coffee in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.
>
> ".I have no personal feelings about Frank Lampard at all," says Van
> Erp.
>
> "A few months after I caught him, I was riding through Hyde Park with
> an autistic friend of mine. He recognised Frank and wanted to have a
> photo with him, and he was very happy about it.
>
> "Frank was very kind and willing to spend time with him."
> cyclingmikey 1
>
> How does Van Erp have time to report so many drivers alongside his
> day job and other commitments?
>
> "It does take some discipline and some practice. What I do is I have
> a habit of as soon as I come home, I stick the memory cards in my
> computer and then the files get downloaded onto my import drive. From
> there I will extract any occurrences from throughout the day and
> place them in a project folder.
>
> "From there the remainder is really easy. I cut out the piece of
> video for the incident, give it the same sort of naming schema and
> make a report from that.
>
> "I don't spend too much time on this, I have a job and a life and
> stuff I want to do in my own spare time too. Each incident takes me
> about 10 to 15 minutes maybe."
>
> And what about those who accuse Van Erp of looking for trouble?
>
> "Now Gandalf Corner, that's fair enough. When it's busy. then I will
> go for an hour or so before work. And that's mostly because it's just
> so dangerous what those drivers are doing.
>
> "I don't think many people realise how many of our friends are
> cycling and training around Regent's Park, and how much risk they are
> put at by these wrong-side drivers.
>
> "That's about the only time I do go out and look for stuff. The rest
> of the time I may take an extra pass along a busy line of traffic if
> I have a few spare minutes before a work appointment. But apart from
> that it's really when I'm just going from place to place."
>
> https://road.cc/content/news/cyclingmikey-episode-16-roadcc-podcast-289665

Boring cunt.

On 21/01/22 06:58, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
> Boring cunt.

Thanks greatly for the compliment.
For you I will be a walking vomit.