Live blog: Ultra marathon athlete to RUN entire Tour de France route, Ian To targets LEJOG record, Mail pushes for Alliston perjury charge + more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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ktache 1 hour ago
@Mr Blackbird It's quite a skill.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@Terry Hutt good point, although while doing testing without a helmet I broke my shoulder and have suffered various other contusions. So I suggest the control should not be "no helmet" as in my experience that adds the confounding variable of your other limbs and appendages as (for some) instinct will mean you sacrifice them to protect your head...
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@mdavidford or the highly skilled cycle football / radball players...
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@No Reply dunno about childish, but I haven't heard that one since the 90s. Can't say I miss it.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Bit harsh on the BMXers.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
@No Reply Er, nope - there are no age restrictions on the site. As previously noted, though, if it were restricted to adults, your choice of language would seem to mark you out as someone who shouldn't be on it.
No Reply 3 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird This is an adult forum. If adults are getting so worked up over the term bum chum, then they need to get a grip. People have a right to be offended, people have a right to offend. But if someone finds offence in something, it doesn’t mean its offensive. It means they are offended. Two different things. I am as free to offend as you are to feel offended. Freedom of speech. Do you want to silence freedom of speech? Or just silence things you don’t like?
Mr Blackbird 3 hours ago
@No Reply You obviously have a lot of knowledge of cyclo cross and make a valid point, but why detract from your comment by using a phrase that is probably offensive to the majority of readers?
Terry Hutt 4 hours ago
@chrisonabike I think the important message here is that your head will fly 20% further if you are wearing a collapsible helmet. Has anyone researched how far your head will fly if you're not wearing a helmet at all? Seems worthy of a research grant.
Mr Blackbird 4 hours ago
Any cyclist caught cycling backwards (on a non-fixed wheel bike) should be jailed for at least 2 years and have their bike confiscated. Such a despicable manoeuvre is dangerously confusing to motorists and pedestrians.
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Ultra marathon athlete to RUN entire Tour de France route, Ian To targets LEJOG record, Mail pushes for Alliston perjury charge + more”
I was in Nottingham on
I was in Nottingham on Saturday. I thought the roads where I live in Northampton were bad. But Nottingham was much, much worse.
If only the Daily Mail could
If only the Daily Mail could use its power and influence for doing some good instead of pushing a fear inspired agenda of hate…
At the end of the day he got
At the end of the day he got convicted so his experience (or lack of) counted for nothing anyway.
Odd one perjury as basically if you lose your case then what they are saying is they didn’t believe you…so surely you’ve perjured yourself by losing your case anyway.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Exactly. Surely every defendant who pleads not guilty and is found guilty is a perjurer. Unless the prosecution are perjurers.
racyrich wrote:
I haven’t looked it up but I thought you entered your plea before you were sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth etc. etc… therefore perjury doesn’t apply to your plea.
Mark.
racyrich wrote:
Next they’ll charge him with not taking the sentence with a smile.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Not really, the jury’s duty is to weigh up conflicting accounts presented by prosecution and defence and decided which account is correct; both sides can believe their evidence is true, Aliston can believe the collisison was unavoidale, the prosecution alleged it wasn’t, the jury went with the prosecution. It’s only perjury if you gave an account which you know wasn’t true, for example if Aliston had said he wasn’t there at all. Generally, as far as I’m aware, prosecutions for perjury only tend to occur if a defendant (e.g. jeffrey Archer) was exonerated on the basis of something which later proved to be a palpable lie. Any lies told during the process of being fond guilty are taken, I think, to be punished by the sentencing, for example people who admit guilt immediately tend to have that taken into account.
But even if Aliston did perjure himself it’s in relation to such a tiny matter – exaggerating his couriering experience – that it’s clearly politically motivated, as was the whole case, which received more media attention than any number of drink drivers killing people. Shameful abuse of the judicial system to hammer an anti-cycling agenda.
So how many 10,000’s of
So how many 10,000’s of drivers are gonna get investigated for perjury then?
Thought so.
StoopidUserName wrote:
Exactly: I wonder exactly how many of those “my client is totally remorseful and needs to keep their driving licence otherwise their wife will leave them, their kids will turn to drugs, and they’ll lose their job, just before the sky falls in”-type pleas are actually a load of foetid dingoes kidneys…?
Is that not perjury too?
Speed-bumps on a shared-use
Speed-bumps on a shared-use path to slow down cycles? Is it April 1st already?
Why don’t they copy the UK and just put loads of broken glass over shared-use paths – that’ll slow down the bikes even more.
Imagine how much better a
Imagine how much better a place the UK would be without the Mail, Sun, Star, Express
This perjury “investigation”
This perjury “investigation” by the Daily Mail is another example of the hypocrisy and double standards which ran through the coverage of the case. See
https://rdrf.org.uk/2017/08/21/the-charlie-alliston-case-the-real-story/ and