Motorist on cycle path (source Ely and District Cycling Club on Facebook).PNG
A group of cyclists on a club ride on Saturday got a surprise when a motorist drove across a grass verge and took to a cycle path to pass them.
Members of Ely & District Cycling Club taking part in its easy-paced ride were cycling in single file when the driver made the unusual – and illegal – manoeuvre.
As he passed them, he made a hand gesture and shouted: “If you are cycling on the road then I'll drive on the path."
As the video shows, there were no vehicles coming in the other direction, so the driver could have safely overtaken the riders on the road.
The footage was posted to the club’s Facebook page by Derek Ricketts, who said: “Think the driver may be getting his collar felt when I pass it on to the police.”
Under section 329 (1) of the Highways Act 1980, a “cycle track” is “a way constituting or comprised in a highway, being a way over which the public have the following, but no other, rights of way, that is to say, a right of way on pedal cycles with or without a right of way on foot.”
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
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Nice to know he'd rather potentially mow down kids on a cycle path than actually overtake on the EMPTY road.
I'm guessing he's a piece of shit, a bit like his car.
That is a brilliant idea. I reckon on Sunday mornings cars should only be allowed to use cycle paths, leaving the roads free for cycling, running, walking, horse riding, kids in go carts, street hockey etc.
This may of course lead to calls by motorists and motoring organisations for cycle path facilities to be upgraded and expanded, but what the heck, that might mean they become fit for use by all cyclists during the week.
What a bellend
He was probably thinking, "This is clever and funny." But it isn't.
Probably jealous that someone can spend more on a bike than he can on a car.
Aww. Couldn't make out the plate to check if it's taxed or not.
New hobby
The roads are full of 'em plus the female variety. It's a chaotic world in which we live.
Another bogan. And yet, if we had been serious over the last fifty-plus years about using education as a means for developing an enlightened society, we wouldn't now have the benefit of millions of easily-duped voters, easily-recruited soliders, easily-exploited workers, and easily-enticed consumers, so really, what can you do?
What will happen? Probably a verbal warning for the driver. And, for our benefit, bollards installed on the bike path by the council. While I admit it would have been amusing to see that car smack straight into a bollard in this video, these will come too late, and will cost tens of thousands to install. But of course that won't be done properly, so when a cyclist rides into one of them at night, they'll have to spent yet more money to replace them with reflective ones. And then local kids will tie a line across them and nearly kill someone else.
This is what we have to put up with in Cambridgeshire....... so called "County of Cycling"....well so the Clownty Council claim...... K*ob Head Drivers... who moan because we are on the road..... Pedestrians moan if we use cycle ways.... I'm sticking to the road.... at least if anymore drivers pull this stunt they will find how rubbish the cycleways really are in Cambridgeshire
I got a cracker of a "why aren't you using the cycle path" incident once. Idiot drives level with me starts raging and pointing at the parallel cycle path, "asking" why I'm not using it. I ignore.
Arrive at next set of lights, pull into ASL alongside the same driver (she is stopped in ASL, naturally) and she starts having a go again. Just said "If I'm supposed to be on that cycle path then WTF do you think this big red box with a cyclist painted on it is doing here on the road?"
Cue apopleptic swearing and torrent of clichés, followed by much laughing from me. She then stalled when the lights changed, much extra lols.
I live for those rare moments when you get to slap idiots like that back down so effectively.
One of the greatest joys in life. They unfortunately missed that one out in Amélie.
The guy is not right in the head, hope the police find him and put him into mental care.
I've given up. Too many douche bags on four wheels, two wheels, two legs. One's bound to be a Ronnie Pickering sooner or later.
I've got the software for the job. I'll leave it to you to check the tax. Plate is a long one: SH1T4BR41N5
Thus proving that cycle lane bollards are effing pointless. Unless they drove into one, which would be funny
um, no need to bring sexism into it
How is that sexist?
Someone insults someone else with the word "bellend" and then someone else needs to single out "the female variety"? of bellends. In case you thought that somehow women were exlcuded? It just seems an extremely odd comment. Think of it how it would seem if you replaced "bellend" with any other modifier or descriptor. Like, what a jerk! Oh and the female variety also! Its, just uncalled for. Certainly women can be bellends too
I think you need to go look-up what 'bellend' means...
I think you need to go look-up what 'bellend' means...
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Oh dear, I seriously thought it just meant idiot. Apologies all round, although if you are going to take it literally, than the original comment also made little sense.
All the more hilarity for us.
Oh dear, I seriously thought it just meant idiot. Apologies all round, although if you are going to take it literally, than the original comment also made little sense.
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i think bellend and mingehole covers the spectrum efficiently.
Reminds me of the letter I wrote to Viz Top Tips:
"Drivers, if you use spotlamps all the time when it's dark, have you considered strapping a 14" fluourescent pink dildo to the roof of your car so that we'll know in daylight too?"