'The most British thing ever': Hilarious moment polite pedestrian stops for motorbike... as rider fist-bumps helpful bus driver

The clip has gone viral after being dubbed the 'most British moment ever'
Royal Jordanian / YouTube
Tom Powell6 June 2018

A viral clip of a London bus driver nonchalantly stopping a biker from hitting a pedestrian before fist-bumping him has been hailed “the most British thing ever”.

The video, recorded on the biker’s helmet camera, shows him slowly driving between two lanes of traffic as he approaches Piccadilly Circus.

He is about to pass a stationary double-decker bus when the alert driver suddenly waves his hand to warn him to stop.

The biker, a YouTuber known as Royal Jordanian, pulls to a stop before a man suddenly appears in front as he crosses the road.

The pedestrian thanks the biker for stopping, before he in turn thanks the bus driver with a thumbs up.

The pair then share a fist bump and head off down Piccadilly towards the junction at Piccadilly Circus.

The incident took place on Piccadilly as the traffic approached Piccadilly Circus
Royal Jordanian / YouTube

Royal Jordanian claimed he was riding a silent electric bike that meant the pedestrian would have not be able to hear him above the sound of the traffic.

“If your Spidey Senses do not help you, maybe a cool bus driver will,” he wrote under his video on YouTube.

The bus driver and the biker shared a fist bump after the exchange

The clip has gone viral across the world after being shared thousands of times on Twitter and Reddit.

Jonno Hopkins tweeted: “This is the most British thing I’ve ever seen”.

Another person described it as an “example of how we should be”, while one said it was “nice to see people acting respectfully towards each other”.

Do you know who the bus driver is? Get in touch at news@standard.co.uk

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