Most cyclists are also motorists, as highlighted at the start of this Near Miss of the Day video from road.cc reader Dave, who takes to his motorcycle to show the safe way to overtake people on bikes.
What prompted him to do that is an incident, also show on the video, in which a motorist made a very close pass on him on a dual carriageway, beeping the horn as they approached; if that's ever happened to you while you're out riding, you'll know how intimidating it can be.
What adds to the intimidation here is also that there is ample space for the motorist to move into the outside lane and overtake the cyclist safely.
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Over the years road.cc has reported on literally hundreds of close passes and near misses involving badly driven vehicles from every corner of the country – so many, in fact, that we’ve decided to turn the phenomenon into a regular feature on the site. One day hopefully we will run out of close passes and near misses to report on, but until that happy day arrives, Near Miss of the Day will keep rolling on.
If you’ve caught on camera a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with another road user that you’d like to share with the wider cycling community please send it to us at info [at] road.cc or send us a message via the road.cc Facebook page.
If the video is on YouTube, please send us a link, if not we can add any footage you supply to our YouTube channel as an unlisted video (so it won't show up on searches).
Please also let us know whether you contacted the police and if so what their reaction was, as well as the reaction of the vehicle operator if it was a bus, lorry or van with company markings etc.