“This is what Red Bull do”: Mountain biker crashes hard during failed jump over busy road as locals brand viral clip “graphic definition of natural selection”; Driver slams “dangerous” cyclist while admitting speeding in 20mph zone + more on the live blog
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‘The cycle lane is going to ruin the town’s historic centre! Preserve our history! The cars are fine though, they can stay…’
> Politician furious at “disgraceful” cycle lane replacing “historic” paving stones with tarmac “mess”
Jonas Vingegaard and Visma-Lease a Bike’s Tour de France tunnel vision
Literally…
I could have sworn I was watching a Zwift video for a second there, instead of a recce ride in the Alps.
Though to be fair, Visma need a fair bit of tunnel vision to mentally set aside Tadej Pogačar’s watt-tastic performance at the Dauphiné. I can see the light, Jonas…
In search of a full-proof method that will stop your bike getting bruised and battered at the airport? Just call the baggage handlers sexy, apparently…
And you won’t even be arrested for harassment either. Well, at least mountain biker Brendan Carberry hasn’t, anyway (yet).
In a desperate attempt to avoid the frame-cracking and bike bag-kicking fate that’s befallen actor Alden Richards and Scottish Instagrammer Sam Wilson in recent weeks, YouTubing off-roader Brendan decided to head down the flattery trail when it comes to loading his bike on a plane:
“This is my best travel hack for bikes,” Carberry posted on Instagram yesterday ahead of his latest flight, showing off his bike bag’s “Baggage handlers are sexy!!” sticker.
“100 per cent success rate so far and the gate agent loved it today.”
So, did all that schmoozing pay off once again?
Success! Goes to show, if you want your bike to arrive in one piece for your latest far-flung cycling trip, just make ‘em laugh. Or blush…
‘Sexy’ flattery bike bag stickers – 60 per cent of the time, they work every time.
Former BBC and Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan reveals stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis – and says he’s aiming to take part in Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 sportive in September
Dermot Murnaghan, the former BBC and Sky News presenter, says he hopes to take part in Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity sportive in September, after announcing yesterday that he has been diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer.
“Some personal news. I’ve been diagnosed with Stage IV advanced prostate cancer,” the 67-year-old broadcaster said on social media.
“I’m fortunate to have a simply outstanding medical team looking after me, who I can’t thank enough – they are administering the best possible care with expertise, compassion, and sensitivity.
“I’m responding positively to their excellent treatment, and feeling well. I’m blessed to be fortified by the monumental love and support of my wife, family, and close friends.”
“Needless to say my message to all men over 50, in high risk groups, or displaying symptoms, is get yourself tested and campaign for routine prostate screening by the NHS. Early detection is crucial. And be aware, this disease can sometimes progress rapidly without obvious symptoms.
> Veteran Sky News presenter reveals hit-and-run injuries
Murnaghan, a regular cyclist who’s taken part in a number of cycling events over the years, including for Sport Relief, as well as riding around the south-west of England back in 2009 for a report on the region’s economic stagnation, added that he hopes to raise awareness of stage four cancer by taking part in Chris Hoy’s inaugural Tour de 4 in September.
“I’m aiming to take part in Sir Chris Hoy’s fundraising charity bike ride, the Tour de 4, in Glasgow in September. Please support it and join us if you can. Take care everyone,” he wrote.
The Tour de 4 was set up by six-time Olympic champion Hoy following his own announcement last year that he has been diagnosed with terminal stage four prostate cancer, and was told last year by doctors that he has two to four years to live.
The mass-participation charity ride and awareness day will start and finish at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow on Sunday 7 September, and will offer three distances, including a short family route, plus a static bike ride in the track centre for those who can’t make it out on the road.
Hoy’s former GB teammates and fellow knights of the realm Sir Jason Kenny and Sir Mark Cavendish have confirmed to take part, as have Andy Murray, Adam Peaty, and Paddy McGuinness, though the 11-time world champion say his primary aim is to bring the stage four community together.
“The aim is to bring that community together, and to change the perceptions of what a stage four diagnosis can look like. I hope it’s going to be a really positive, uplifting day… something to really look forward to,” he said in April.
“A lot of people don’t really know what stage four means. I’d like to do something that reflects how I’m feeling right now – that, actually, life goes on. A lot of people are living with stage four.”
“The Tour de 4 is a big goal for me. Because I want to turn up looking and feeling as fit and healthy as I possibly can, I want to be an example.”
More details on the charity ride can be found here on the Tour de 4’s website.
London Dynamo cycling club investigating allegation rider spat in another cyclist’s face in Richmond Park
The alleged incident was reported to the police by a cyclist who claims he was spat at by a rider from an oncoming London Dynamo group ride, after shouting at the group, “taking up more than three-quarters of the road”, to “give some more space”.
Read more: > London Dynamo cycling club investigating allegation rider spat in another cyclist’s face in Richmond Park
Sorry Dave, here’s how you actually win the Brompton world championships
Reflecting on her big win in Coal Drops Yard at the weekend, fancy dress helmet and dog enthusiast Honor Elliot wrote on Instagram last night: “Dunno what was worse: running on concrete in cleats, my brain trying to process unfolding a bicycle under the pressure of hundreds of spectators, or riding at 191bpm in 30+ degree heat in knitwear.
“Yet somehow this was maybe the most fun race I’ve ever done?! (Big statement, may revise, inflatable snail/giant helmet/CX with my dog all close contenders).
“Absolute blast honestly, silly but hard racing is the best kind of racing and I absolutely cannot wait to be sending commutes on a sick pink limited edition Brompton.”
> Can I win the Brompton World Championships?
However, just like road.cc co-founder Dave, who started unfolding the wrong bike before crashing during his BWC heat, Honor has her own regret from her championship-winning ride.
“I did however photograph Alec Briggs 20ft in the air on a Brompton as he took his win and realised I probably ought to have come up with a fancier finish,” she said.
Ah, there’s always next year – isn’t that right, Dave?
More ball games, more skateboarding, and more cycling!
No skateboarding No cycling
— Alison Stenning (@alisonstenning.bsky.social) June 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Speaking of folding bikes…
> Best folding e-bikes 2025 – our favourites from those we’ve ridden (and folded and unfolded)
Chris Froome’s comedy career scales new heights
First, the ASMR Factor video (complete with disc brake touching), then that weird, silent wallet ad with the stereotypical French salesman… and now this – whatever the hell this is:
No wonder Froome can barely crack the top 100 anymore in stages races, he’s obviously far too busy working on his comedy sketch material to train…
The Tour de France countdown is well and truly underway: Visma-Lease a Bike name strong team to support Jonas Vingegaard’s yellow jersey bid, including Wout van Aert and Giro winner Simon Yates
It’s happening, it’s happening!
The Tour de France is just 11 days – yes, that’s right, 11 days – away, and the start list is slowly starting to fill up, as teams announce their eight-rider squads for cycling’s biggest race.
Yesterday afternoon, Uno-X pulled the team announcement trigger first, naming a strong line-up of attacking stage hunters, led by Jonas Abrahamsen and Magnus Cort Nielsen.
Tobias Halland Johannessen, Søren Wærenskjold, and Andreas Leknessund will also feature for the breakaway-focused Norwegian team, as will debutants Stian Fredheim, Markus Hoelgard, and Tobias’ brother Anders Halland Johannessen.
And now, tunnel training in the Alps complete (if you don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, scroll down for a bit), Visma-Lease a Bike have joined Uno-X and officially confirmed their Tour team – and boy, is it strong.
Jonas Vingegaard’s bid for a third yellow jersey in Paris will be aided by a typically well-rounded team of climbers and rouleurs, including two former grand tour winners: the flying Simon Yates, who just last month added the Giro to his Vuelta title, and 2023 Vuelta winner Sepp Kuss.
Double Paris-Nice winner Matteo Jorgenson, sixth overall at this month’s Dauphiné, will also provide strong support for Vingegaard in the mountains, while potentially serving as a back-up GC contender should the need arise.
Wout van Aert, who showed he was back in form at the Giro after a turbulent start to the season, will come in handy on any terrain, as well as being expected to sniff out the odd stage win, while Tiesj Benoot, Victor Campenaerts, and Edoardo Affini will be ever-present on the front of the bunch for three weeks, you can be certain.
“With these eight very strong riders, we believe in the plan we made for the Tour de France,” the Dutch team said in a statement today.
“From day one we will have to be there as a team to optimally assist Jonas in the GC. In addition, there will be opportunities for several riders to go for stage wins. We are very deliberately focused on ourselves and our own plan. We have an optimal preparation behind us and with that, we think we can get the best possible result.”
Anyone else starting to get very excited?
“When cyclists use this road, the risk factors multiply, leading to serious safety concerns for both the cyclists and motorists alike”
> Isle of Man’s “feel-good radio station” shares bizarre petition demanding cyclists are banned from Mountain Road because “they cause a backlog of traffic” and “increase risk of collisions”
Extreme pro cycling tan lines
Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Gianni Vermeersch here, upping the ante when it comes to ridiculous cycling tan lines:
Cheers Gianni, you’ve made me feel a lot better about my new tan lines from last week. I suppose they’d have been even worse if he’d been wearing gloves…
Former MotoGP star Aleix Espargaró set to “swap leathers for Lycra” and make road racing debut for Lidl-Trek’s development team at next month’s Tour of Austria
Ski jumpers, investment bankers, and now… MotoGP riders?
Well, following Mark Cavendish’s stint in the MotoGP pits in Tuscany at the weekend, it looks like the world of big engines and sharp corners has decided to return the favour, with Lidl-Trek announcing this afternoon that former Grand Prix racer Aleix Espargaró is set to make his professional cycling debut next month.
After retiring as a full-time rider last year, Espargaró joined Lidl-Trek as an ambassador at the start of 2025, while participating in training camps and being coached by the squad’s performance staff.
And now, the 35-year-old is set to dive headfirst into the world of motor-less bike racing – by lining up for the squad’s development team, Lidl-Trek Future Racing, at the Tour of Austria on 9 July.
To make things even more complicated, just a week before his first foray into elite pro racing, Espargaró will head back to his old stomping grounds and compete as a wildcard at a MotoGP event in the Netherlands. Sounds like a fun week.
“I’m very happy about how this year has gone, completely changing my life and everything I did before,” the Catalan said.
“It’s been amazing to be part of such a big team like Lidl-Trek. I’ve grown a lot as a cyclist and learned many things in these six months. I’m feeling good, and I really can’t wait to race and test my legs against some of the best cyclists in the world. I’ll have a strong team around me to show me the ropes.
“It’s also going to be cool because the week before racing in Austria, I’ll compete as a wildcard in MotoGP in Holland. It will be a nice challenge, but I have no expectations for my cycling debut. I’ll try to learn as much as possible, help my teammates, and most importantly, enjoy the suffering!”
Somebody told him we race without motors, right? Well, most of the time anyway…
“It’s just one more week, that’s all I’ve got to commit to now”: Geraint Thomas optimistic about Tour de France start after “pretty good” recovery following Tour de Suisse crash
Geraint Thomas says his knee “seems pretty good” and his recovery is going to plan, a week on from his race-ending crash at the Tour de Suisse, as the Ineos Grenadiers rider all but confirmed his place at next month’s Tour de France, his final one before retirement, on the latest episode of his Watts Occurring podcast.
The 2018 Tour winner was forced to abandon the Tour de Suisse last Tuesday after crashing heavily on a tight corner during the previous day’s stage, injuring his knee and sparking concerns about whether he would be fit enough to make it to next week’s Grand Départ in Lille.
However, while Ineos are yet to announce their eight-rider squad, Thomas insisted that his withdrawal from the Tour de Suisse was mainly a precautionary measure ahead of his final Tour de France, which he all but confirmed he will be starting.
(Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
“My knee didn’t feel too bad, it was more the muscles and from the twisting of it really,” he said, reflecting on last week’s crash.
“The doc was basically like, ‘yeah, we don’t want to take the risk, we think you’re better just having a few days off, make sure it’s 100 per cent and then you can train again and be good for the Tour’, rather than battling away through here, maybe making it worse or overcompensating, twisting your back, pedalling differently.
“I think because it was Suisse and two weeks out from the Tour, they were super cautious with that side of things. Any other race it probably would have been like, ‘oh just start tomorrow, see how you are’. I wanted to start, but it made sense, so that was the call.”
The 39-year-old then spent a few days off the bike at home in Monaco, before undergoing some recovery work with an Ineos physio.
“To be honest, that’s the worst bit for me,” he admitted. “I’ve got nothing against the physio, obviously, he’s only doing his job, but I just hate all that rehab stuff, it just cracks me.
“Luckily it’s been pretty straightforward, it’s not too much. You know when you’ve got to do all these different exercises using the bands and all this and that, I’ve never been one for that, I’ve always struggled with that.”
(Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
Speaking on his podcast, Thomas – who, along with his 2018 Tour win, has finished on the podium in Paris on two other occasions, in 2019 and 2022 – appeared certain that he will start this year’s race, despite Ineos never officially confirming that the Welshman was a certain pick.
However, while there is often little room for sentimentality in cycling (just ask Bradley Wiggins, and his experience of being left out of the Tour’s British Grand Départ in 2014), it would have taken something dramatic for Thomas to miss out this year.
The 39-year-old is set to retire this autumn after the Tour of Britain, with the Tour of Germany sandwiched between his farewell ride in Cardiff and his upcoming final lap around France.
(Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
Asked about how his knee is faring a week on from his crash, Thomas said: “It seems pretty good. I need a big week now, that’s the only problem. I’m not really chasing it, but it’s more just the mental side. I could have had five more days of racing.
“Racing these days, it’s a bit more intense, you’re sprinting more out of corners, so I feel like I have to do a bit more of that in training – which is tougher to do, because in a race you’ve got a number on your back and you’re racing. So it’s easy to dig in and dig deep. To do it in training, obviously it can still be done, it just takes a bit more mental energy.
“But I was also thinking, I’ve only got one more week of that, forever. A week of that, I’ll go to the Tour, then I’ve got three weeks until the Tour of Germany, then there’s a week in between until the Tour of Britain.
“But that will be a lot less intense, I’ll be training obviously but it’s a different vibe. So, it’s just one more week, that’s all I’ve got to commit to now.”
Driver complains to local paper about “incredibly dangerous” cyclist “flying” onto road with children… while admitting speeding at 30mph in 20mph zone – ironically claiming “you shouldn’t be cycling if you don’t know the rules of the road”
How little self-awareness do you reckon it takes to call up your local newspaper, send them a video of your recent near miss with a cyclist, complain about the “incredibly dangerous” rider’s lack of understanding of the rules of the road, and urge cyclists to take greater care… all while admitting to driving at 10mph over the speed limit at the time of the incident?
Well, believe it or not, that’s exactly what an incredibly self-aware company director from Brighton did this week, after a female cyclist pulled out in front of him at a junction during the school run.
The 52-year-old motorist, who wished to remain anonymous, was driving his son to school on Davigdor Road near Seven Dials, Brighton, when the cyclist, carrying two children on the back of her bike, “shot” out of a side road as he approached.
In dashcam footage of the incident sent to the Argus, the driver is forced to hit the brakes and come to a stop (or, as the local reporter bizarrely wrote, he “slammed on his bikes to avoid crashing into them”).
“It was incredibly dangerous. If you’re going to take your own life into your hands, don’t include your children in that,” the motorist told the Argus, saying he’s sharing the footage to urge others to “take more care when cycling”.
And while he’s absolutely right that the cyclist’s failure to give way was daft at best, it probably doesn’t help his case that he then goes on to admit to travelling at between 25 and 30mph at the time – despite driving in a 20mph zone.
Davigdor Road
In fact, if you’re driving on Davigdor Road, which has been restricted to 20mph for over a decade, you couldn’t miss the lowered speed limit – there are huge 20 signs painted all over the road (like the ones above), including just before and just after where our company director was forced to slow down.
“That lady didn’t look left at all. I was doing about 25/30 miles per hour,” the driver admitted, seemingly unaware he was speeding himself.
“It’s a junction so I always slow down there. She flew out and I slammed on my breaks [sic].”
Please, for the love of all that is holy, could someone tell the Argus that it’s ‘brakes’, please?! And, if he slowed down to 25/30mph before the junction, how fast was he going beforehand?
Brakes! Brakes! Brakes!
In any case, the little matter of breaking the speed limit by 10mph hasn’t stopped our company director from climbing up on his road safety high horse in the local press.
“Whoever this lady is, she needs to have a think about what’s happening there,” he told the Argus.
“I think she should understand the road. She’s got a helmet for the kids so I’m glad she thought about that.
“That is just basic road safety when you’re taking your kids to school. You shouldn’t be cycling if you don’t know the rules of the road.
“Anything could have come up the road, buses come up that way. I cycle myself a lot, I have done for 20 years. In 20 years of cycling, I’ve never seen something that dangerous.”
Apparently, the driver considered sending his footage to the police, but instead reckoned that exposure in the Argus (and now the live blog) will “encourage people to think twice on the roads”.
Self-awareness, anyone? Anyone?
“This is what Red Bull do and we pay to see them”: Police launch investigation after mountain biker crashes hard during failed jump over busy road in Spain, as locals brand viral video a “graphic definition of natural selection”
Don’t try this at home… Or over your nearest single carriageway.
A video of a failed DIY ‘road gap’ jump in Catalunya has gone viral, after a young mountain biker came up short, rather dramatically, in his bid to leap over an open road, crashing hard and – rather miraculously, considering the impact – escaping with just a broken foot and a battered bike.
The wannabe Red Bull stuntman attempted the jump last week near Badalona, just north of Barcelona, as his friends stopped traffic on the Vallensana road and others filmed.
The rider was trying to emulate the kind of freeride jumps we’ve grown accustomed to seeing at the Tour de France in recent years, where mountain bikers soar off ramps and over the heads of the peloton, all in the name of some TV exposure and thousands of YouTube clicks.
However, this particular DIY stunt failed spectacularly, with footage of the jump posted on Instagram showing the rider misjudging the distance and landing with a sickening thud on the road, a few yards away from his intended destination.
Ouch.
According to Reddit, the jumper escaped the crash with a broken foot, though his bike took a bit of a battering too:
The clip, which has since gone viral in Spain, has attracted the ire of both locals and social media regulars, who have criticised the rather ill-conceived stunt.
“People watch too much TikTok,” Maria said on Instagram. “If you want to do this, do it in a circuit, not bothering and endangering others.”
“Graphic definition of natural selection,” added Roger, while Cesc nominated the rider for the ‘Darwin prize’.
To add legal proceedings to insult and injury, according to reports in the local press, the crash is now being investigated by Catalunya’s regional police, who say the young riders had removed safety barriers on either side of the road, built improvised ramps over, and blocked traffic without permission.
Residents had reportedly also claimed that the youngsters had been riding in the area for months, building jumps and performing similar stunts, with police now increasing patrols to clamp down on the freeriding craze.
That angle… Grim.
However, not everyone was up in arms about the failed jump.
“He who doesn’t risk doesn’t gain. Cheer up kid and keep trying, that’s how you learn. The others can watch from the couch,” one Instagram user said.
“Brutal!” wrote another. “This is what the Red Bull do and we pay to see them, instead they do it in Badalona and we ask that they stop it. Speedy recovery kid! The next one will turn out nice.”
Hmmm… Maybe we should just leave all the big ramps, tow ropes, and social media danger debates to Red Bull, eh?
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@imajez Most people would have walked, but we take your point. I've never had a problem with riding on stoned tracks, designated as footpaths, but I'm not ripping up the surface on downhill footpaths. 0:-)
'Rather than using cups that cartridge bearings sit within, the MAXhit is the bearings, if you catch my drift' Still none the wiser - stick with dub and a ceramic Chinese affair at that which are brilliant for cost & durability in my experience!
@tomlew Will check Neco, cheers.
I’m not sure it’s a knee jerk reaction from Adam Hansen’s point. I think it’s more the media, as per usual, having a full statement in front of them about everything that was wrong with the tragic incident on Friday, and running with the headline that will get the most attention and clicks. No doubt this very publication will be the same come Monday. My sincere condolences to Finlay’s family and friends.
@mdavidford Always worth remembering with these spending outcries as well that a fatal road incident costs us as taxpayers £2.7M, and a serious injury incident £325,000. So if just one fatal road incident, or a small handful of serious injury ones, has been prevented across the whole of Oxfordshire by 20mph limits in the last four years, the taxpayer is actually in profit.
For reference, annual highways spend is about £80m (out of a total spend of £999m). Less than 0.013% is an interesting definition of 'high'.
Maybe the problem is the bikes are too good to make the trails challenging. Hence the growth of trail centres. Most MTBs are ludicrously competent now, particularly e-MTBs. Want a challenge? Change the bikes to something less competent.
Didn't move with the times, consequently it failed. Sad for the employees, but the real Raleigh died years ago.
"If there wasn’t enough parking the car-owning residents would be up in arms organising and petitioning the council" There isn't enough parking, in pretty much every neighbourhood. There a street in my town, where just about every house has off road parking for at least 2 cars, but somebody still saw fit to paint lots of parking bays along it. In addition to just encouraging even more car ownership, it causes regular incidents where people simply can't wait for a gap in the traffic and overtake the parked cars into oncoming traffic. (Said road is on a bus route, and a short walk from a well connected railway station, a large supermarket and not too far from town, but people still feel the need for multiple car households. It's a strange mindset that we've got ourselves into.
Chris King are fairly serviceable. And the warranty does indeed require it. I enjoy the xtr plug and forget on two of the bikes. Until they die, and I just fit another. Chris's headsets are worth it, superb seals. It's such a mucky area, and I haven't had adjustable cup and cone BBs. on a bike since my Peugeot racers in the 80s, I was relieved when starting my mountain bike adventures in the 90"s that the fit and forget square taper BBs just worked. The seals on the hubs were awful back then. Singletrack FGF featured this, https://burgtec.co.uk/product-category/hardware/shimano-crank-bolt/, I'm wondering if it will replace my seemingly made of butter bolt on the xtr 960 cranks, almost impossible to find back in the day.
24 thoughts on ““This is what Red Bull do”: Mountain biker crashes hard during failed jump over busy road as locals brand viral clip “graphic definition of natural selection”; Driver slams “dangerous” cyclist while admitting speeding in 20mph zone + more on the live blog”
I’m sure this “I’m a cyclist
I’m sure this “I’m a cyclist myself” sends in videos of the (inevitibly) much more dangerous driving he’s encountered over the years to the local paper too to urge motorists to understand the road? Or is he too busy breaking the law himself to notice his fellow drivers doing anything that could endanger themselves and others?
Driver: “In 20 years of
Driver: “In 20 years of cycling, I’ve never seen something that dangerous.”
Only cycles at center parcs then.
George Monbiot in the
George Monbiot in the Grauniad:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/24/lower-thames-crossing-britain-addicted-infrastructure-projects
Yeah but if we don’t build
Yeah but if we don’t build this motor infra now, we won’t be able to grow to need far more motor infra in the next few years…
(I mean if I was a politician I’d might do the same. There doesn’t seem to be any off-ramp to this, not even the possibility of slowing down. Movement of goods seems to be a “predict and provide” with “goods = good” and even “not increasing goods = bad”).
Motornomativity – clearly
Motornomativity – clearly breaking the speed limit whilst piloting 2000kg of metal, admitting it, but somehow saying that a cyclist is the dangerous one.
I’m totally with you but…
I’m totally with you but… having watched the video, it doesn’t look like great cycling either. Can’t tell if she looked first because they have comprehensively blurred the whole bike area.
It’s the kind of thing,
It’s the kind of thing, whilst not carrying two kids on the back to school mind, on a 20mph road and drivers at 30mph who would be visibly speeding.
That id ride across like that just to make the point, maybe not the most sensible approach to take, but it would feel like a win.
In search of a full-proof*
In search of a full-proof* method that will stop your bike getting bruised and battered at the airport?
Just slip the baggage handlers a gift.
* I think you meant fool-proof
Ryan wrote:
*something something* glass houses *something something* stones.
Perhaps they were being
Perhaps they were being allusive? I’d hate getting my bike back and discovering it was bruised, battered, had its oils removed and had shrunk…
Or maybe they had a different
Or maybe they had a different kind of Fuller in mind – though that would only give a 4.7% chance of getting the bike back undamaged, which doesn’t seem great.
The ‘Angry Person in Local
The ‘Angry Person in Local Newspaper’ article reminds me of the time I was riding home a few weeks ago and a kid on a MTB came hurtling onto the road from my left. They had come down a hellishly steep footpath in my village (Star Lane) with ‘no cycling’ signs at the top and bottom, and I suspect had picked up a bit more speed than they had expected…
I nearly checked out at
I nearly checked out at during childhood due to something like this… (I think it was a “BMX” back then though).
There is a new I SPY book
There is a new I SPY book just been published especially for motorists called spot the law breaking cyclist – also in the book is a useful section by Loopy Loophole that explains to motorists how to get away with drink or drug driving, driving faster than the speed limit, using a hand held smartphone when driving, going trough a red light, driving no hands and eaing food or putting makeup on when driving.
What the hell is wrong with
What the hell is wrong with drivers ? I was just doing 30 in a 30 downhill taking the lane when a open back van driver thought it was to overtake. They were doing almost 38. I pointed at them and shouted Oi, Oi to which they then brake checked me.
My assumption is that by
My assumption is that by being able to cycle at that speed on a pedal bike You had emasculated him in his motor vehicle.
So he felt he had to punish you for it.
I think this is a big subconcious reason for a lot of dangerous driving/overtakes by male drivers.
That would explain why male
That would explain why male drivers with a female passenger often behave particularly badly.
No doubt there’s a bit of
No doubt there’s a bit of that, but I think the bulk can be explained simply by cyclists being “in the way”. That is – they sometimes go slower than the minimum speed limits, or at least don’t necessarily accelerate as fast as some motor vehicles – so they’re in the way!
Actually, I think that is
Actually, I think that is wrong Brooksby. I think they are instead driven crazy by the idea people on bikes can get around a city faster than they can. It creates a need in them to pass a bike at any chance they get just to prove they can.
There is a route I ride
There is a route I ride occasionally where I will be going uphill at 10mph in a 30mph limit for a few hundred meters. It’s narrow-ish and a bit twisty though, so drivers tend to hold back. At the crest of the hill, the speed limit changes to 20, the road points downhill again and I’m pretty much instantly doing the speed limit. That’s when they choose to overtake
So the driver who had to use
So the driver who had to use his “breaks”
(His old school English teacher would be proud) states
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“I cycle myself a lot, I have done for 20 years.
“In 20 years of cycling, I’ve never seen something that dangerous.”
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I assume he’s referring to his own speeding here ?
Some Redditor apparently
That was pretty much my reaction too.
I saw footage of that Spanish
I saw footage of that Spanish MTB rider making the jump attempt on Instagram. I’m glad he wasn’t seriously hurt. It was a pretty stupid stunt to try though. And others could’ve been hurt, not just him. The Red Bull stunts are rather better planned.
“The man considered sending
“The man considered sending the footage to the police….” For what? A cyclist doing what motorists regularly do at the same intersection? And how, exactly, does he know she didn’t look? Was he looking at her face the entire time he was illegally speeding toward the intersection?