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Don't be a wankerDon't be a wanker: One Aussie's message to drivers
"As a white, middle class, hetero male, it’s not often I get to feel like a hard done by minority. It’s why I love cycling. It gives me an insight into some full blown, Aussie bigotry.”
That’s the view of TV reporter and cyclist Charlie Pickering, who has made a video encouraging drivers to ‘stop being a wanker’.
On the ABC show The Weekly, Charlie takes to the roads to poke fun at drivers who (wrongly) believe that they pay for the highway upkeep and should take priority.
On a serious note, he points out that four in every five crashes between bikes and cars are caused by the latter.
In the familiar format Aussie show Family Feud, clipped for this feature, the host asks: “What's something annoying a cyclist might do?" -- the reply 'everything' was the third most popular answer.
Pickering concludes: "Stop being a wanker. More people would ride, the roads would be less congested if everyone, cars and bikes, just stopped being a wanker... Because only when we all stop being wankers can we all pull together."
Latest Comments
- Martin1857 47 min 33 sec ago
I did a Cytech 2 course some years back with a mechanic from Wiggle who told me that he'd seen bikes in Halfords with the forks mounted back to...
- Backladder 1 hour 26 min ago
I don't disagree with you about drivers but surely the whole point of manslaughter is that there wasn't an intent to kill and what I saw on the...
- leedorney 1 hour 43 min ago
NEVER understood narrow shoes, never still I ever, Lakes all the way, even the Lake 333 is possible to get in wide, these no, poor show Decathlon,...
- jbuckx2 1 hour 47 min ago
Your right, it's not finished, but if this was road works (for motorists) would this be acceptable? ...
- Rendel Harris 1 hour 57 min ago
Well that's some pretty spectacular nonsense you've got going there. Everyone I know who uses Zwift is also a keen road rider with multiple bikes...
- David9694 2 hours 15 min ago
and we're all left squabbling over drivers' leavings as ever...
- Backladder 2 hours 33 min ago
But how many drivers are they actually locking up, they can barely be bothered to fine them!...
- Mr Hoopdriver 2 hours 51 min ago
Typically, for dodging a £2.00 ticket on the railway, fine will be £50.00 + prosecution costs of £hundreds. Same for private hire drivers picking...
- Backladder 2 hours 58 min ago
I think queues of traffic might be very vulnerable to a cyclist swinging a U-lock at their windows! Bring on the revolution!
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If we all pull together doesn't that make us all wankers?
If we all pull together doesn't that make us all wankers?
Reminded me of this:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/232428030743135948/
Last Leg remake please. Or just show this as is.
What is it with the violent animosity against cyclists in anglo-saxon countries? As a Swede I find it both bewildering and shocking. Cyclists take up 1/6th of the space on the road, we save society a bunch of costs, and we don't poison your kids/grandkids/spouse/environment with exhaust.
This is brilliant. Needs to be widely shared and watched. It would be interesting to see data on how much exercise cyclist-haters partake in. Pushing the guilt buttons a little, maybe? Just a theory.
Yes, the message is for everyone that's out and about. As we all know, it's not the car, bicycle, motorbike... or any other form of transport that's at fault (including pedestrians). It's all about the grey cells controlling the limbs... controlling the vehicle...
Some grey cells are considerate to others around them, others behave like they're alone in their own microverse... So what's changed in the last million years? The only way to ensure civility is through well constructed laws and enforcement of the law. As we see far too often though, this is where we're dropping the ball IMO.
I need to send this video to my boss.