My spin on all the above is:
1. I like to teach good road skills
2. I assume no one bothers with advance driving/riding techniques
3. If people do daft things on the road the only time they will learn safer skills is if they are told or involved it an RTI (Road Traffic Incident)
4. I feel very vulnerable as a cyclist and passing at refugees is a big scare as one tone of 30mph metal brushes past very close
5. With virtually no traffic police available for education getting a Carless Driving notice with an option to attend training rather than points is a good educational tool.
6. I will continue with my Dash Cams on cycle, motorcycle and car in my bid to improve Road Safety
7. I will ride/drive/cycle as if I'm always on someone's camera SLAP (Safe/Legal/Advantageous/Perception)
As before thanks for all your input, I still have the stigma of 'being a grass' but see no viable alternate as every cycle ride on our roads I see my fellow road users not exercising best practice. My acid test is "Would I do that if I were being followed by a Traffic Officer?"
Take care out there its a jungle.
I probably would not have responded to this thread again, but the above points to several issues.
1. Please tell me which organization hired you on to teach "good road skills"?
2. Your assumption is a blanket statement, only accurate to a portion of road users.
3. Please look in the mirror. Who is teaching you safer skills? More pointedly, what advanced road cycling course(s) have you taken?
4. Seek counseling and you may find empowerment in having the skills, knowledge and abilities to not put your self in harms way.
5. It is not the job of the traffic police to educate road users. It is also not their job to make final determination, that is the judge/magistrate's responsibility.
6. Again, who hired you on? Not your job. And when you create the situation that causes poor behavior, consider how often are you seeking to create that situation, Vs how often it's just happening? Or, is your 'normal' behavior actually creating these situations, which you then record and tattle on?
7. This is a victim's attitude. Understand that being safe isn't necessarily the same as being legal. Laws are general things not intended to apply to every single situation in life. The traffic police are expected to use their judgement, derived from training and experience, to make the decision to cite or not. Do you have this training and experience in traffic enforcement?
As a cyclist, what really stands out to me about your vid and your responses is that you imply that the overtaking is illegal and merits the citation, but neglect to mention how long that vehicle was behind you, waiting to overtake. The driver did not display angst or make abrupt moves, did not appear to make gestures or otherwise interact with you, only go around you. You should be bloody thrilled that he didn't overtake you in your lane inches from your elbow.
Your perspective seems to be that you do no harm and that you maintain a "holier than thou" attitude. As ShawnK mentioned, an attitude that is seen often from bicyclists behaving badly, yet crying out that others must give them room, when they make little or no effort to keep their slower traffic out of the way of other road users.
Because your comfort level as a cyclist is apparently low and you feel vulnerable, this does not excuse your actions. Cyclists are sharing the roadways with larger, faster vehicles that are largely impervious to damage from the cyclist. You would be a fool to rely on the behavior of others to keep you safe. It's YOUR job to keep you safe.
I watched the video again. At times your lane position is quite reasonable. At other times you are well into the road. Lane discipline is important for you so that other road users see you as predictable and don't worry that you're suddenly going to weave out into the roadway. On the line or to the left of the line when there is no dedicate bikeway lane. You are moving much slower than motorized traffic, don't assume you will hear them in time to move over. The behavior they see when approaching you in part dictates how they will react to you. Are you another hazard, and an unpredictable one, to manage? Or are you well and good to the side of the road, predictably following your line w/o weaving in and out of the roadway that can be safely overtaken w/o danger of harm to you?
In the US many states have foolishly passed laws and put up signs requiring motorized traffic to maintain 3 or 4 feet between the bicycles and their vehicle. I say foolishly because this ignores the FACT that bicycles are required by existing laws in the US to follow the same rules of the road as other road users. And more often than not, the roadway is not wide enough to allow a car/truck to pass a bicycle with a 3-4 foot margin w/o crossing the center line or moving out of their lane. This is compounded when the bicycle or group of cyclists is well into the roadway or riding abreast instead of single file.
Despite the issue that all road users are required to follow the same rules, traffic officers rarely cite bicyclists for poor behavior. Running a stop sign perhaps, but rarely the wide variety of other violations that a motor vehicle would instantly be stopped and cited for. I put this down mostly to training or lack thereof and the "low hanging fruit" concept of it simply being easier to cite the motor vehicles.
My daily commute path took me up a 1.6 km hill. The shortest alternate route would have added 20+ km to my route. My speed up this hill was often in the 8-25 km/h range. No bike lane. No shoulder. The fog line was literally painted at the very edge of the pavement and the pavement gave way abruptly to a ditch or brambles. Speed of traffic was posted at 70 kph, but often really moving closer to 90 kph.
I rode with my tires on the single fog line every day of my commute. Since commuters, like me, often take the same route and the same time every day, the other road users got to recognize me as I did some of them. After about a week of riding this path, most of the other vehicles would pass me w/o slowing down and giving me a foot or so of space between their car/truck and my elbow/bar end. I was much more pleased with this response than the ones that slowed to my pace and held up traffic, creating a new hazard for the other road users. Or the ones that swung out into the oncoming lane of traffic to overtake me. Oddly giving me more space than they would to another car, and again, creating a new hazard for other road users.
Over the years of riding this commute, on rare occasions I would have an opportunity to converse with the motorists that I shared that stretch of road with. Not once did someone insult me or complain about my behavior. Instead, I was often thanked for being well to the side of the road and not creating a hazard for them. Some would ask if there was a safer route I could take and I would explain the problem of doing so doubling my commute distance. Most understood that was more significant to a bicycle rider than to a motor vehicle user.
We share the road. We also share the responsibility of being a safe road user that doesn't create hazards for the other road users.