The Cyclist Making London Safer - Who Is Cycling Mikey? 

Thank you for everything you do, Mikey. You're awesome.

Thank you for your service and bravery!

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Mikey, I wish there were more people like you and I hope one day I'll see you around London and buy you a pint! 🍻

@@clivepreston2228 Long time mate, how are you?

Thank you very much!

You've said it...

Yeah , put a helmet on him

@@pavels470 😅😅

Helmet would help

Thanks so much! Yes, I would prefer not to feel the need to film all the time. I rarely feel the need to film in the Netherlands, although drivers there are just as bad as in the UK.

@@CyclingMikey thanks for making the world a better place. Go get 'em.

If people didn’t kill people there wouldn’t be any murders as well

safer from people that are stationary at traffic and having a look at their phones lol..get a grip and use your brains a little better you fool.

Yes he would he’d just stalk somewhere else

There are more and more such people all over the world. In Poland, it is still unreasonable to "pick on" drivers with their phones. We have much more to do with driving culture. I respect Mikey very much

Thanks man! I appreciate that so much, as well as our many years of interaction on RU-vid.

You dont always need to prosecute but educate people if what hee does changes peoples driving habits for the better and makes them safer that's good thing it could save a life

@@ericwalsh3200 Yes, if it were possible to change behaviour without prosecution, I'd be fine with that. My impression is that most people won't change without actual punishment, and that's been confirmed by several police officers. I've caught quite a few drivers more than once, btw., which usually results in disqualification if it's for a mobile phone offence.

I agree persistent offenders need to be prosecuted these are are the people that think the law dosebtcapply to them most people are compliant but still see it ever day from my truck cab

Ah you're awesome, Hannah! Thank you so much.

If you think people breaking traffic rules are the worst people alive, you are truly ignorant.

@@petesmitt cry more, cager

@@petesmitt They are

@@petesmitt That's true. I mean, there's you, for instance.

That’s very sad to hear. Sorry about your uncle. What a tragic accident

Thanks, more of a leg end really. Also I'm filled with fear all the time, I might seem calm and relaxed on camera and on the outside, less so on the inside.

What should we all be doing again Dave? Impersonating police? Chasing criminals for them? Why not just join the force lmao

He’s fearless because he records everything and works closely with the police, guys a protected nonce👍🏻

It's not the rules to wear a helmet in the UK

@@Cade_Media quite right, i should say stickler for safety

cycle campaigners don't believe helmets make cycling safer

@@Cade_Media then they are silly, my dad came off his bike, fractured his skull and now is deaf in one ear, had he have been wearing a helmet, he would probably be fine. I was knocked off by a lorry on my commute once, ruined a helmet but I was fine. Personally I cannot take a cyclist griping about road safety seriously if they aren't wearing a helmet. They are clearly using safety as a convenience to make pedantic points about rights of way. They may think they are helping but they don't do us any favours in the long run.

​@@mikelewis2533And he seems to wear dark clothing which is ridiculous. When I'm cycling I always wear something hi-vis and a crash hat. I'm a car driver too so I know how invisible cyclists are to fast moving cars and trucks .

Grow up

I'm not convinced they were actually doctors. Doctors typically are able to keep themselves together and display control in chaos and these people were not able to do that. I think it's likely they lied about what they did in an attempt to justify their actions and imply that it had great importance and significance.

@@kidkarbon4775 Agreed. But they did make the claim even if they didn't exactly act like clinicians (perhaps they were Drs of philosophy!)

@@kidkarbon4775 They display control when they're getting paid but they're just as shitty as anyone else

@@kidkarbon4775 They are proper medical doctors. He has confirmed this.

That sums it up- it's about the cycling community , not law breakers . He only shows motorists doing wrong , and who should be reported for ignoring the rules . Bit there are thousands of cyclists breaking the law around him and he takes no notice- doesn't video or report them . Hence he is not the Saint the cycling community claim, just an anti motorist.

Too many cyclists ride on the road unsafe every day , educating them would be better time spent . There’s cameras , yellow boxes , anpr cameras , bus lanes , bus gates all designed to penalise drivers but cyclist still struggle with the basics

@@winnie6354 he does tell cyclist off though and cyclist are most likely to crash.

Your all dicks who think you own the roads

Lmfao another cycling bellend

Both parks are awesome! I've turned back a few cars on the cycle lane there, mostly it's just confusion on their part. They can't handle Dutch sized cycle paths and think they are roads.

But why should anyone give a sh1t about some random guy? He's not the police, If this corner was near me I'd I'd there just to knock him out

Almost as if they’re not expected some Voldemort looking nonce to creep up behind them with a go pro on his head

Just hope he's managing his GDPR responsibilities.... A SAR from a few thousand people would keep him quite busy...

And I bet you still ride in the middle of the road genius

@Luke Sheppard and why shouldn't they?

@@lukesheppard1065 Cyclists do that for your safety as well as their own.

serves you right for cycling,learn to drive ffs

@@lukesheppard1065 I stick to the correct side of the road (riding with traffic) unless I am making a turn in which I will be crossing traffic. I take the lane in those instances because I have had drivers cut me off because they couldn't stand to be delayed by a few seconds of going slower to let me take my turn. I have been run off of the road though even when sticking to the side because of those arrogant drivers that think that only cars should be on the road as if there isn't plenty of space. While I have certainly encountered arrogant cyclists that disobey traffic laws and become a nuisance, a cyclist is much less of a danger than a driver in a vehicle that can crush a person and/or accelerate to deadly speeds in less than a minute.

Maybe he doesn't want to be a Police Officer?

@@cholloway0046 Yep, I don't want to be a police officer. That's a hard job. It's easy to do this in a few minutes a day of my spare time.

@@CyclingMikey what gives you the right to stop others doing as they please? You are not the police and it’s a free country. You have no right to stop people doing as they please. Unless you are a saint you should mind your own business as what others do has nothing to do with you. I have to laugh as well it sounds to me as though you are not even English. You are in a foreign country telling the English what to do, your arrogance and self righteousness knows no bounds. Do you chase other cyclists down that ride through red lights or are you selective with your policing? When you see cyclists riding on the pavement do you stop them like you do the motorists?

@@cholloway0046 maybe the people of London don’t want him telling them what to do? If the people of London wanted a self appointed police force I am sure there would be one by now. The arrogance of thinking that you can tell others what to do is beyond belief, it’s called self righteousness and the self righteous shout and ball at others when they break the law for instance whilst all the time forgetting that they themselves have broken a law themselves. The hypocrisy of this guy is going to be there for all to see that know him. They will know what he has done and I wonder how he would feel if they stood up in public and shouted about that.

@@user-bu9nb8wr6e Xenophobia, you're a nice person. It's you and the drivers who think they have the right to do as you please. Camera cyclists, and there are tens of thousands of us, are here to stop that bad driving behaviour. I'm not even in the top ten most prolific reporters in London.

Waahaaay! Long time subscriber and thank you. I'm just one of the more well known ones, and thankfully there are many thousands of us all helping to make our roads safer.

But it's ok for Creepy Mikey to weave about live roads distracting them.

He literally posts all his videos to the police, who act on them by prosecuting the drivers not Mikey. Do you think the would do that if he was breaking the law? BTW which laws do you think he's breaking?

@@zivkovicable I'm referring specifically to the cases where he stands in front of moving vehicles, deliberately obstructing the road and blocking it to all traffic. I pay my taxes and I expect the Police to prosecute all law breakers.

I find the opinion of his blanket statement people who disagree with what he does supports law breaking and we have zero integrity .That is absolutely wrong there are beautiful decent law abiding people who just disagree with Lord Mickey

He is a 51 yo snitch who looks 15 years older.

@@michaelnedsmar9106 Only a law breaker would come out with a comment like that!

I'm neither a law breaker nor a law enforceror or a snitch .

@@georgereed5266... cycle mikey has probably saved a few lives already. cycle mikey is a hero and a scourge to sum bags like greoge reed the dangerous cell phone driver. i hope the cops bag you, ya scum bag bum.

hey reed, your comments have been scrubbed by you tube. maybe they'll bar you from making any more criminal comments. 🤣

@@cocodog85 I would say something back but you’d just report me your like the cycling mike of youtube

@@georgereed5266... so folks you can see by geroge reed's comments that he has no regard for human life...not even his own. george would risk your lives, and his, rather than wait to get out of his car to read his phone safely. selfish people like george are the reason we need cops and cop helpers. i hope george gets caught before he kills some innocent person on the road. 👺

@@cocodog85 can you tell me how many people were killed by stationary vehicles last year? I’m actually interested

I’m sorry to hear that was he stuck in traffic ?

I didn't fully appreciate just how good at editing Francis is until I spent the day with him and then saw him produce this video. I'm gobsmacked to be honest! I better start upping my game haha!

Possible. Drivers exagerate fast.

And they will end up in prison.

Thank you so much!

That's also what an angry motorist might say.

Thanks so much!

Percy pigs 👊

@@Cade_Media First time I ever had Percy Pigs, and they are a winning swap with those Dutch and SA sweets I got you. :)

Well said sir. Totally agree.

And me👍

Exactly. He intentionally seeks confrontation and winds people up. He could easily record and report without looking for arguments with random motorists in the hopes of getting something dramatic for RU-vid. He's an absolute hypocrite and does more harm than good. Obviously his fanboys are too daft too notice any of this.

Hahaha! You're probably right. :)

It's a good idea, I've played with using one. The best use so far as been as Gandalf's Staff at the corner. It got footage there when one driver bonneted me and the impact knocked my GoPro off my cap, and the 360 footage shocked the police officer.

It wouldn't be a New idea! There have been thousands of hours on TV and social media of motorists driving badly.

​@@neiltaylor8198 I suppose that's fair although in tesla vehicles specifically, they are working on self-driving so less accidents because of lack of vigilance. The issue primarily is that humans are terrible at keeping focus typically so removing any distractions have at least some potential to reduce threats to other people occupying the roadways. Not to mention a large number of people still don't even own vehicles with screens (like myself), whereas the number of people who have a smartphone is considerably higher. I fail to see how punishing people on phones when they are supposed to be driving isn't helpful at least. Definitely would be safer all things considered.

Exactly. He loves peeping through windows, he's definitely a nonce

He is genuinely creepy and sinister. He gets off on the power.

Disagree with the stationary bit for a couple of reasons. 1. A driver that is breaking the law using their phone when stationary is also likely to do it while moving 2. It still distracts the driver and is still dangerous. If you watch you will notice gaps between drivers when the person behind is on their phone. Mikey calls it the “WhatsApp gap”… They aren’t paying attention to what is going on around them. They therefore don’t know what is around them, a cyclist could be passing for example. When they do notice they have “missed the lights” or similar because they have been distracted by their phone they react badly, suddenly pulling away in a panic, not checking their surroundings possibly, missing that cyclist or pedestrian.

Stationary phone drivers are still dangerous for many reasons: 1) Should a child or shorter person cross in front of them they wouldn't even see them, and would likely then move off, running them over. Notice how WFN364 (google for videos) drives forwards whilst looking at his phone? This is common behaviour from phone drivers. Here's an example someone else caught where the driver almost takes out a pedestrian at a crossing: twitter.com/phonekills/status/1491526464520560641?s=20 2) They are entirely unaware of filtering cyclists and motorcyclists. These drivers are often slow to react when the queue starts moving, and then when someone behind them beeps they drop the phone and hastily move off without even looking. 3) If you imagine these people only use their phones when queuing at the traffic lights, that's terribly naïve. The gardener in LM63BTZ was on the phone whilst driving along, and quite likely had been doing it for some considerable part of his journey. These phone users are constantly using their phones, but it's just much easier to catch them when they're in the queue. 4) Phone distraction lasts for a good 10 minutes after you put the phone away. Even if you're only using the phone in each traffic queue at each junction (which is highly unlikely), then you're constantly topping up your mental distraction and are basically as disabled as a drunk driver. 5) Phone driving is worse than drink driving for distraction rates, and that's why it's part of the #Fatal4 behaviours that police target heavily. 6) Mobile phone laws are about to get even more restrictive because of the govt, police, DfT all recognising the danger of phone use. New laws making it even more strict and easy to catch came in on 25th March 2022. 7) People who knowingly break minor driving law will likely also break more serious laws. Strong policing of minor traffic offences has a strong effect on reducing collisions resulting in killed and seriously injured people. It's good to police these phone drivers. I'm really not interested in this nonsense of "it's not dangerous when stationary, because it clearly is and it's clearly still very appropriate to catch these drivers.

He causes drivers to be even more distracted because of his silly interactions with them. Dangerous

Cheers! One of my favourite t-shirts. :)

Well it's not a major failure of authorities, every system has its limits. The question is whether those limits have been reached. A system would be perfect if authorities monitored every persons movement but that is not practical.

@@william_8844 When the guy files dozens of complaints about one particular site and no police manager every thinks to send their own people there or to change the road setup, then you have a system which does not work for public safety.

It's because everything you think you know about helmets is wrong, Ben.

@@CyclingMikeyUmmm that's a pretty vague answer and rather daft thing to say without any explanation to back it up. I have been cycling for more than 24 years and I know they have probably saved my life on at least 2 occasions. What do you know about helmets that most people dont?

@@bendrummond3063 LOL, honestly, you imagine your helmet has saved your life twice, but it didn't. I'm bored of Helmet Jehovah's Witnesses, carry on, you keep the faith without the evidence.

@@CyclingMikey LOL ! Wow what a horrible response, you are ridiculous claiming my helmet did not save my life as you have no details of my accident. It was the opinion of the health PROFESSIONALS that told me that. Calling someone a helmet jehovah's witness who praised what the person in your video was doing and simply asking for an explanation of why he chooses to not wear a helmet. You are clearly not the person to be taking advice from about safety just because you think YOU know it all. What a complete and utter tw@t you are Michael. Enjoy trying to be a social justice warrior instead of an advocate for the safety of cyclists. Funny how every cycling competition enforces mandatory helmet wearing in the interests of safety

Maybe what he mean is urban biker, just an ordinary man using bike moving from A to B and not a hobby as tour-de-X-cyclist aka race cyclist.

Professional snitch.

Im a cyclist as well and I’m glad I’m not the only one that feels this way. I feel that any of the good this man does is negligible at best, but in the process he causes a lot of misery, distress and conflict with people that are doing what would otherwise harmless things. Worst bit is that he goes out looking for it and seems to take enjoyment out of it, there’s something especially sadistic and possibly narcissistic about it. I also expected him to be a lot younger, I’ve always considered him immature, so I was bit surprised when I saw the face behind his camera.

@@NitroNuggetTV Yeah the enjoyment I found weird to, its not like most cops would jerk of on giving you a fine.

One day he’s gonna meet a driver who won’t hesitate running him over when he does his usual nonsense at the Gandalf corner.

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Thanks very much! I too am an SADB fan, at least of their road work. Sadly I read that their politics aren't so good, which saddens me.