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CyclingMikey Sir Ian McKellen’s agent
CyclingMikey Sir Ian McKellen's agent (CyclingMikey) (Image Credit: CyclingMikey)

CyclingMikey says second angle of Gandalf Corner stand-off with Sir Ian McKellen’s agent proves he didn’t jump onto bonnet; Cav Q&A gets existential; Shell era begins with medals galore; Aero friends + more on the live blog

One more day and you can all head off into the weekend… Dan Alexander is bringing you home with Friday’s live blog
  • by Dan Alexander
Fri, Oct 14, 2022 08:07
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SUMMARY

  • Cav Q&A gets existential
  • Shell era begins with Track Worlds medals galore
  • Aero friends
  • "Whether CyclingMikey did or did not jump on the bonnet, the driver is not safe to be on the road"
  • CyclingMikey releases second angle of Gandalf Corner stand-off with Sir Ian McKellen's agent to prove he didn't jump onto bonnet
  • "Anyone who watches this and blames CyclingMikey needs their head testing": Jeremy Vine has his say
  • "The new facility will be behind fences": Geraint Thomas' former coach slams plan to bulldoze velodrome where Tour de France winner's journey began
  • Shimano 105 Di2 - It's a GRAVEL groupset
  • "Cycling needs funding, yes, but surely this doesn’t have to be the answer…"
  • Happy hi-vis man
  • DuraAce-ic Park, DuraAce-ic Park, get it... Jurassic Park...DuraAceic Park...no? Okay...
  • Revenge is a dish best served cold...(with pasta)
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14 October 2022, 08:07

Cav Q&A gets existential

What’s the meaning of life? Is there life after death? These probably aren’t the sort of questions Zwift expected to pop up when they put out the call for fan input for an interview with Cav…

Your chance to ask @markcavendish one question! What would it be? 👇 pic.twitter.com/kZWEPNLRA1

— Zwift (@GoZwift) October 13, 2022

Let the amusing interrogation begin…

Is death the end?

— Lord Sedegepig (@Lord_Sedgepig) October 13, 2022

If I open a can of Evaporated Milk, why is it still in there..?#AskCav

— Neon-Brown (@NeonBrown10) October 13, 2022 

14 October 2022, 08:07

Shell era begins with Track Worlds medals galore

The winning moment 🔥pic.twitter.com/q1vYlOGtvZ

— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) October 13, 2022

The Great Britain men’s team pursuit squad of Dan Bigham, Ethan Hayter, Ollie Wood and Ethan Vernon became world champions last night, handing out a shellacking (sorry) to the world’s best team pursuiters.

“It was a clean, solid ride,” Bigham said of the gold medal-winning race. “All of us are on cloud nine. We really focused on executing good, clean rides and having that drilled into us. It’s not about being here to win, it’s about doing everything we can to perform to the best of our ability and getting maximum performance out of it.”

In the women’s race the British quartet, powered by a returning Katie Archibald, Neah Evans, Anna Morris and Josie Knight took silver, losing out to the Italians in the gold medal race.

Next up, it’s the Women’s Team Pursuit final!

Going for gold!!🥇🤞 pic.twitter.com/fTt0p5RZhQ

— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) October 13, 2022

14 October 2022, 08:07

Aero friends

This… @DanBiggles22 🤝 @GannaFilippo #SQY2022 pic.twitter.com/6tIB5A9TkH

— UCI Track Cycling (@UCI_Track) October 13, 2022

14 October 2022, 08:07

"Whether CyclingMikey did or did not jump on the bonnet, the driver is not safe to be on the road"

Some of your early comments have started to roll in…

OldRidgeback suggested it’s irrelevant if Mikey jumped on the bonnet or not, the driving was still dangerous… “Mr Lyon-Maris shouldn’t be allowed to drive. Whether CyclingMikey did or did not jump on the bonnet, the driver is not safe to be on the road.”

CyclingMikey Sir Ian McKellen's agent (CyclingMikey)
CyclingMikey Sir Ian McKellen's agent (CyclingMikey) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
CyclingMikey Sir Ian McKellen's agent (CyclingMikey)
CyclingMikey Sir Ian McKellen's agent (CyclingMikey) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

Rendel Harris agreed: “Precisely. In all these semantic debates as to whether CyclingMikey (CM) jumped on the car or was forced to pull himself on or whatever, people are overlooking (quite deliberately, in the case of the usual suspects) the fact that Lyon-Maris was illegally and dangerously driving the wrong side of the traffic island when he was stopped.

“Virtually every other driver whom CM has stopped there has, after grumbling, accepted that they were in the wrong and reversed back to join the traffic queue to take the turn legally. Lyon-Maris deliberately drove his car at a person on foot because he didn’t like being told to obey the law, that’s the bottom line. Doesn’t matter whether you think CM is a total prick and shouldn’t do what he does, the driver was breaking the law and when someone attempted to stop him doing so he drove his car at them. These are the facts of the case.”

ChasP compared someone climbing onto the bonnet to avoid being run over to “accusing someone of bullying for hitting your fist with their face”.

espressodan added: “The fact that it was a jury verdict says everything there is to say about the influence of cars on society and most drivers threshold for acceptable conduct on the road.”

14 October 2022, 08:07

CyclingMikey releases second angle of Gandalf Corner stand-off with Sir Ian McKellen's agent to prove he didn't jump onto bonnet

If you missed yesterday’s news, the agent of Sir Ian McKellen (and several other big-name actors) was cleared of assaulting CyclingMikey over an incident at Regent’s Park’s infamous Gandalf Corner in September 2021.

Dubbed Gandalf Corner due to Mikey’s ‘you shall not pass’ interventions to motorists ignoring the keep left sign to cut the corner, and beat the traffic, on the wrong side of the road, since seeing the footage some have somewhat strangely come to the conclusion the road safety campaigner might have jumped onto the bonnet deliberately…

Accusations Mikey rubbished by releasing this second angle last night…

To give the lie to all this “jumped on his bonnet” rubbish, here’s a top down view. He’s pushing me back, he drives into me several times, eventually I have to hold on to save myself from going under his car. I never go forwards to his car. pic.twitter.com/CH3WEL22Ql

— CyclingMikey (@MikeyCycling) October 13, 2022 

Regardless, a jury at Southwark Crown Court acquitted the theatrical agent of dangerous driving and common assault…

14 October 2022, 08:07

"Anyone who watches this and blames CyclingMikey needs their head testing": Jeremy Vine has his say

Anyone who watches this and blames @MikeyCycling needs their head testing (and their driving licence fed through a large shredder). Feel the ❤️, Mikey, from people who actually obey the law. https://t.co/RWAffYSlud

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) October 13, 2022

14 October 2022, 08:07

"The new facility will be behind fences": Geraint Thomas' former coach slams plan to bulldoze velodrome where Tour de France winner's journey began

Geraint Thomas, 2022 Commonwealth Games men's road race (Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
SWpix (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Geraint Thomas, 2022 Commonwealth Games men's road race (Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
SWpix (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

[Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com]

Plans to bulldoze Maindy velodrome — the outdoor Cardiff venue where Geraint Thomas first got into the sport — will be “a detriment to cycling”, according to the 2018 Tour de France winner’s former coach.

If development work goes ahead, Maindy Park would disappear under concrete as part of an expansion of the neighbouring school, Cathays High, while the velodrome would be relocated to the International Sports Village five miles away.

“The new facility is going to be extremely limited,” Alan Davies, who received an MBE for services to youth cycling in Wales, told Wales Online.

“The level of banking that is proposed I don’t think will be safe to ride anything other than the fixed wheel bikes. If you want to grow the sport you have to get kids interested at an early age.

“At no point have people been presented with options or choices. That causes me a disquiet because you’re no longer delivering a facility that the community want, you’re delivering what will fit.”

Meanwhile, Davies’ greatest talent — the Ineos Grenadiers rider — says he is undecided on if he will ride the Tour de France again, saying he has nothing left to prove and wants to “make the most of” what’s left of his career.

“When I won the Tour, it was nice to come back the next year to show it was not a fluke. And it was nice to come back this year as well, when people thought I was done. Now I feel like I have nothing else to prove.

“I don’t even know if I will do the Tour to be honest, maybe the Giro. It’s all up in the air, really. I wouldn’t mind doing something different.”

14 October 2022, 08:07

Shimano 105 Di2 - It's a GRAVEL groupset

14 October 2022, 08:07

"Cycling needs funding, yes, but surely this doesn’t have to be the answer…"

Here’s the work of Adrian Ridley, commenting on British Cycling’s Shell deal…

GB Shell kit (Adrian Ridley)
GB Shell kit (Adrian Ridley) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
GB Shell kit (Adrian Ridley)
GB Shell kit (Adrian Ridley) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

“Cycling needs funding, yes, but surely this doesn’t have to be the answer…” he wrote.

Powerful stuff.

Check out more of Adrian’s work on Instagram or over on his website…

14 October 2022, 08:07

Happy hi-vis man

Only one hi-vis jacket in this… and it’s not riding a bike…

You know you have a mainstream cycling culture when this is how helmets and hi-viz are used around young children.👷‍♀️👷

Meet the worlds happiest traffic controller: Johan Zandvliet from Zwolle.pic.twitter.com/pZy6yS8JI3

— Cycling Professor 🚲 (@fietsprofessor) October 13, 2022

By contrast, here in the UK it must be the annual ‘nights are drawing in day’ as Roads Policing Scotland have dropped a classic of the genre…

Here we go again, @polscotrpu in full on victim blaming mode, even though they know that this stuff doesn’t work!

What they should be doing is focusing on the source of the danger and enforcing speed limits which are proven to reduce KSIs… Stop the victim blaming Bullsh*t!! https://t.co/8brkot5PHg

— Kim Harding (@kim_harding) October 13, 2022

14 October 2022, 08:07

DuraAce-ic Park, DuraAce-ic Park, get it... Jurassic Park...DuraAceic Park...no? Okay...

Well, after five minutes of trying to shoehorn a groupset name pun into a 90s classic I’ve given up… there was something in it, I’m convinced. Any help from the comments would be gratefully received as my brain has reduced to mush…

Anyway…

🇲🇾 #PETRONASletourdelangkawi2022

Well, that’s one way to get up a hill faster, right @BarberoCbc? 😂 pic.twitter.com/78COWOoGSo

— Lotto Soudal (@Lotto_Soudal) October 14, 2022

14 October 2022, 08:07

Revenge is a dish best served cold...(with pasta)

The Italians got their revenge on Great Britain, Filippo Ganna and Jonathan Milan racing into the individual pursuit final, as Dan Bigham will have to settle for a bronze medal showdown against Portugal’s Manuel Alves…

Men’s Individual Pursuit Finals ⬇️

For 🥇 ➡️ @GannaFilippo 🇮🇹 vs 🇮🇹 Jonathan Milan
For 🥉 ➡️ @DanBiggles22 🇬🇧 vs 🇵🇹 Manuel Alves#SQY2022 pic.twitter.com/XMi6GZ2fGJ

— UCI Track Cycling (@UCI_Track) October 14, 2022

At least Bigham won the coolest wheels comp…

In the men’s individual pursuit, @DanBiggles22 qualifies third with an impressive time of 4:05.181, putting him through to the bronze medal ride against Portuguese Ivo Manuel Alves Oliveira🥉

Will he make it two medals in two days? 👀#SQY202 pic.twitter.com/HoIDiGapqQ

— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) October 14, 2022

14 October 2022, 08:07

Kent cyclist says driver ‘dressed like Blues Brother’ tried to strangle him with helmet strap

Kent cyclist says driver ‘dressed like Blues Brother’ tried to strangle him with helmet strap

Keith Patrick says driver, whom he believes had been drinking, also deliberately doored him after close pass

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Dan is the road.cc news editor and joined in 2020 having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Dan has been at road.cc for four years and mainly writes news and tech articles as well as the occasional feature. He has hopefully kept you entertained on the live blog too. Never fast enough to take things on the bike too seriously, when he’s not working you’ll find him exploring the south of England by two wheels at a leisurely weekend pace, or enjoying his favourite Scottish roads when visiting family. Sometimes he’ll even load up the bags and ride up the whole way, he’s a bit strange like that.  

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44 thoughts on “CyclingMikey says second angle of Gandalf Corner stand-off with Sir Ian McKellen’s agent proves he didn’t jump onto bonnet; Cav Q&A gets existential; Shell era begins with medals galore; Aero friends + more on the live blog”

  1. espressodan
    October 14, 2022 at 8:39 am
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    The fact that it was a jury
    The fact that it was a jury verdict says everything there is to say about the influence of cars on society and most drivers threshold for acceptable conduct on the road.

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    • squidgy
      October 14, 2022 at 10:02 am
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      The contrast with Sherrilyn
      The contrast with Sherrilyn Speid who nudged an eco protestor with her range rover is stark. A slick legal team works wonders for the in-justice system.

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      • Rendel Harris
        October 14, 2022 at 10:06 am
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        squidgy wrote:

        The contrast with Sherrilyn Speid who nudged an eco protestor with her range rover is stark. A slick legal team works wonders for the in-justice system.

        — squidgy

        She did plead guilty to dangerous driving though, didn’t she, so we didn’t get a chance to see what a jury would have made of her case – on this showing she probably should’ve taken her chances!

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  2. eburtthebike
    October 14, 2022 at 8:49 am
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    Was this video presented to

    Was this video presented to the court?

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  3. OldRidgeback
    October 14, 2022 at 9:10 am
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    Mr Lyon-Maris shouldn’t be

    Mr Lyon-Maris shouldn’t be allowed to drive. Whether CyclingMikey did or did not jump on the bonnet, the driver is not safe to be on the road.

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    • Rendel Harris
      October 14, 2022 at 9:23 am
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      OldRidgeback wrote:

      Mr Lyon-Maris shouldn’t be allowed to drive. Whether CyclingMikey did or did not jump on the bonnet, the driver is not safe to be on the road.

      — OldRidgeback

      Precisely. In all these semantic debates as to whether CM jumped on the car or was forced to pull himself on or whatever, people are overlooking (quite deliberately, in the case of the usual suspects) the fact that Lyon-Maris was illegally and dangerously driving the wrong side of the traffic island when he was stopped. Virtually every other driver whom CM has stopped there has, after grumbling, accepted that they were in the wrong and reversed back to join the traffic queue to take the turn legally. Lyon-Maris deliberately drove his car at a person on foot because he didn’t like being told to obey the law, that’s the bottom line. Doesn’t matter whether you think CM is a total prick and shouldn’t do what he does, the driver was breaking the law and when someone attempted to stop him doing so he drove his car at them. These are the facts of the case.

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  4. the little onion
    October 14, 2022 at 9:23 am
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    Given widespread prejudice

    Given widespread prejudice and ignorance against cyclists, there is a strong justification for not allowing jury trials of driver-ists who are accused of driving into cyclists.

    My comparison would be jury trials in the southern US in the 1950s, where it was impossible due to widespread prejudice for an all-white jury to find a white person guilty of murdering or assaulting a black person.

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    • chrisonabike
      October 14, 2022 at 9:29 am
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      Yes… but I’m not convinced

      Yes… but I’m not convinced the judges would necessarily be able to set aside their own bias either, such is the ubiquity of motoring and all the unspoken assumptions we carry.  And there is some wooly law.  They’d still have to put their finger in the air and make the judgement ‘now, is it *far* below the standard of a careful, competent driver?’

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      • I love my bike
        October 14, 2022 at 9:36 am
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        If it was a learner driver

        If it was a learner driver taking their driving test, would they have passed, been allowed to carry on, or been stopped & not carry on any further?

        Seemingly from the verdict, they’d have passed?

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        • the little onion
          October 14, 2022 at 9:50 am
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          Frankly, this should be the

          Frankly, this should be the standard for dangerous/careless driving offences – is it so bad that it would have cuased someone to fail their driving test?

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        • hawkinspeter
          October 14, 2022 at 10:03 am
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          I love my bike wrote:

          If it was a learner driver taking their driving test, would they have passed, been allowed to carry on, or been stopped & not carry on any further?

          Seemingly from the verdict, they’d have passed?

          — I love my bike

          This should be the standard used.

          I’d consider that careless driving would be non-intentional driving that would cause a driving test fail (e.g. failing to look and see a pedestrian/cyclist/driver) and dangerous driving would be intentionally flouting Highway Code recommendations (e.g. deliberately driving on the wrong side of the road) that would immediately cease and fail a driving test.

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        • eburtthebike
          October 14, 2022 at 10:29 am
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          I love my bike wrote:

          If it was a learner driver taking their driving test, would they have passed, been allowed to carry on, or been stopped & not carry on any further?

          Seemingly from the verdict, they’d have passed?

          — I love my bike

          He was found guilty of driving offences, so they wouldn’t have passed.

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  5. wtjs
    October 14, 2022 at 9:46 am
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    In the meantime…brilliant

    In the meantime…brilliant work from our (and the Italian!) team pursuiters!!

    It ought to be obvious to all cyclists by now that the law thinks there is open-season on cyclists. Kill one, and you have a good chance of getting away with joke community service. We know about the police: we’ve had Essex claiming that a close pass doesn’t count ‘if you don’t wobble or brake’, Northumbria telling you not to cycle at busy periods, South Wales advising ‘no cycling in the dusk or dark’, Worcestershire saying ‘it’s too dangerous to send officers out on close pass operations’ but doing nothing about such appalling driving, Lancashire which has never conducted any close pass operation and has never prosecuted a driver for close passing (they may have issued warning letters, but are determined to ‘not notice’ such previous action when the driver does it again) etc. etc.

    We’re just riding around waiting to be KSI’d

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    • Secret_squirrel
      October 14, 2022 at 10:11 am
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      Whilst it’s tempting to see

      Whilst it’s tempting to see it in that light I don’t think I’d agree. Don’t forget Mikey has had plenty of victories to accompany this defeat. As have many others. 
      And honestly – if you’re not a cyclist – the video Mikey’s submitted for evidence is pretty ambiguous. (Waits for the flaming). Which is how jury trials work rightly or wrongly.  

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      • Rendel Harris
        October 14, 2022 at 11:39 am
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        Secret_squirrel wrote:

        And honestly – if you’re not a cyclist – the video Mikey’s submitted for evidence is pretty ambiguous. (Waits for the flaming). 

        — Secret_squirrel

        Not going to flame, I agree that it is certainly ambiguous as to whether there was any danger or harm done, so one can certainly see how a jury would on balance decide that the assault charge could not lie. However, Lyon-Maris was also charged with dangerous driving, which is defined on the UKGOV website as “driving which falls far below the standard expected of a careful driver.” He drove his car at a person on foot, he admits that, the video shows that. How can deliberately driving your car at a pedestrian who is posing you no threat (I think we can discount Martin73’s ridiculous “He might have been about to rob your Rolex” excuse) not be far below the standard expected of a careful driver?

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        • Secret_squirrel
          October 14, 2022 at 1:44 pm
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          Good point which I cant

          Good point which I cant really refute.

          I can only speculate but I wonder if the juries logic was no assault = no danger.

          I do wonder if there had been a careless driving charge whether that would have stuck.  But we shall never know.

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          • Rendel Harris
            October 14, 2022 at 1:50 pm
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            Secret_squirrel wrote:

            I do wonder if there had been a careless driving charge whether that would have stuck.  But we shall never know.

            — Secret_squirrel

            I suspect it might have done, simply on the basis that the jury took over four hours to decide and at one point returned to court to ask the judge for clarification on what exactly constitutes dangerous driving, which implies that they thought it was pretty close. It’s always struck me as odd that juries aren’t allowed to propose a lowering of the charge, it has to be either/or, e.g. (as I understand it, willing to stand corrected) if someone is on trial for murder the jury have to find them guilty or not guilty, they can’t come back and say we don’t think they are guilty of murder but we definitely think they are guilty of manslaughter.

          • AlsoSomniloquism
            October 14, 2022 at 1:51 pm
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            He had already been charged

            He had already been charged and accepted “Careless” for the initial wrong side of the road / cutting the corner part of his poor driving. Apparently driving down the wrong side of the road approaching a busy junction and the wrong side of the pedestrian refuge is not dangerous to anyone else on the road and a “momentary lapse”. 

            But then driving along with someone clinging to your bonnet as they no longer have any safe option to disembark is not dangerous either so shouldn’t be surprised.

  6. hawkinspeter
    October 14, 2022 at 10:07 am
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    Maybe the solution for Mikey

    Maybe the solution for Mikey is to strap some porcelain statues to his legs, so that the next time some idiot tries to drive at him, he can then get them done for criminal damage. I’m sure the courts would take damage to property more seriously than an actual person that’s not particularly rich.

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  7. eburtthebike
    October 14, 2022 at 10:31 am
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    The latest in the Shell memes

    The latest in the Shell memes.

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  8. brooksby
    October 14, 2022 at 11:16 am
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    It would have been fun to

    It would have been fun to have called the drivers of the other ten or so cars that Mr Lyon-Maris happily drove past because he was IN A HURRY as witnesses, see what they thought of his driving entitlement…

    Problem is, as with the death-by-driving type cases, witnesses, juries, and judges all have an attitude of “I’m not going to find him guilty, because I might have done the same thing”.

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    • Rendel Harris
      October 14, 2022 at 11:33 am
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      brooksby wrote:

      Problem is, as with the death-by-driving type cases, witnesses, juries, and judges all have an attitude of “I’m not going to find him guilty, because I might have done the same thing”.

      — brooksby

      Haven’t there been cases (I know it happens in America but I think it’s happened here too) where the defence or prosecution have successfully applied to have a trial moved elsewhere on the basis, for example, that a Newcastle fan on trial for hooliganism in Newcastle is most likely to be facing a jury of fellow Newcastle fans (town chosen at random, no slur on Newcastle fans intended)? Seems as though some similar safety valve is required for road traffic offences.

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      • chrisonabike
        October 14, 2022 at 11:58 am
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        Where were you thinking? Sark

        Where were you thinking? Sark?  (Or somewhere warmer…)

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        • Rendel Harris
          October 14, 2022 at 12:39 pm
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          If Hydra was good enough for

          If Hydra was good enough for Leonard Cohen for seven years I certainly wouldn’t be objecting to being called for jury service there.

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      • Patrick9-32
        October 14, 2022 at 11:58 am
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        Driving, and more

        Driving, and more particularly, criminal driving, is so consistent and ubiquitous across all demographics that it would be very difficult to find a full jury of people who honestly didn’g have a bias for or against dangerous drivers. 

        If you fill the jury with those without driving licenses the bias would be way too heavy, if you take driving out as a consideration of juror validity you end up with only drivers (on average, you might have one non driver) and you have heavy bias the other way. 

         

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        • Rendel Harris
          October 14, 2022 at 12:38 pm
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          I agree and the same applies

          I agree and the same applies for many other types of events, that’s why, as I have mentioned elsewhere, I think we should consider moving to the French system of a tribunal of highly trained legally qualified judges rather than a jury.

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        • wycombewheeler
          October 14, 2022 at 4:18 pm
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          Patrick9-32 wrote:

          Driving, and more particularly, criminal driving, is so consistent and ubiquitous across all demographics that it would be very difficult to find a full jury of people who honestly didn’g have a bias for or against dangerous drivers. 

          If you fill the jury with those without driving licenses the bias would be way too heavy, if you take driving out as a consideration of juror validity you end up with only drivers (on average, you might have one non driver) and you have heavy bias the other way. 

           

          — Patrick9-32

          Just try driving offences with a panel of three driving examiners

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    • BalladOfStruth
      October 14, 2022 at 12:07 pm
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      brooksby wrote:

      Problem is, as with the death-by-driving type cases, witnesses, juries, and judges all have an attitude of “I’m not going to find him guilty, because I might have done the same thing”.

      — brooksby

      And this is the crux of the issue. You don’t have to look much further than speed compliance data. Speeding is the most common driver-related factor leading to car accident fatalities, yet you’re not going to get a jury of drivers to agree to throw the book at a speeding driver when most drivers speed, most of the time.

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  9. Bungle_52
    October 14, 2022 at 11:30 am
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    Re Cyclng Mikey.

    Re Cyclng Mikey.

    More info here : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11312013/How-YouTube-vigilante-CyclingMikey-caught-thousands-drivers.html

    From the article :

    “However, he was slated by defence lawyer Michael Epstein, who suggested video of the incident proved his real motive to achieve online ‘notoriety’.

    ‘I suggest that was a conscious move on your part to get on the bonnet of his vehicle,’ he said. ‘That was a pre-determined choreographed action to grab and hold onto that bonnet.’

    Mr Van Erp denied his actions were deliberate. ‘He specifically drove into me twice. Mr Lyon-Maris drove right up to me and hit me.

    ‘You are trying to suggest I am the antagonist here.’

    ‘I am,’ replied the defence lawyer.”

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    • Patrick9-32
      October 14, 2022 at 1:18 pm
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      As I read somewhere else

      As I read somewhere else today (maybe in these comments, maybe on twitter?). Reporting criminality is not vigilanteism and vigilanteism is a crime. By calling Mikey a vigilante, the mail and other similar publications are committing an act of libel. I would guess he would have a good chance to win a lawsuit on that one as they would have to prove he was committing that crime, which he is not or at least that they believed he was (which is true I have no idea, I am not a lawyer)

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      • eburtthebike
        October 14, 2022 at 2:00 pm
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        Patrick9-32 wrote:

        ……vigilanteism is a crime.

        — Patrick9-32

        Got some evidence for that claim?

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      • SimoninSpalding
        October 14, 2022 at 2:49 pm
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        I don’t believe being a

        I don’t believe being a vigilante is a crime per se, the issue is that you do not have the legal protection of, for example, being a police officer who are granted additional powers under the law. Many actions taken by vigilantes can therefore lead to prosecution for assault, false imprisonment etc.

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  10. Patrick9-32
    October 14, 2022 at 11:39 am
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    If you hit someone with your

    If you hit someone with your car on purpose, you should lose your right to drive permenantly. Doesn’t matter the speed you are going or whether you are in a REALLY BIG HURRY!! 

    The only mitigating circumstance would be avoiding a car jacking. Someone standing in front of you holding a camera asking you to reverse doesn’t quite fall within that. 

    Mikey was standing with his feet planted, not moving towards the car when the driver chose to drive into him.

    This fuck was allowed to drive home from court. 

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  11. alexuk
    October 14, 2022 at 1:24 pm
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    Where can I get that Shell

    Where can I get that Shell Jersey? – thats cool. It would be great if some green-solar-energy company could sponsor them, but guess what – their business doesn’t make profit. Fossil Fuel companies are the reason we can afford to sit and complain on this website all day, rather than working in the fields. Oil has saved more lives than it will kill. How many will have died from the cold alone if there was no oil or gas? …we might even find out this christmas.

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    • Rendel Harris
      October 14, 2022 at 1:34 pm
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      alexuk wrote:

      Oil has saved more lives than it will kill.

      — alexuk

      You might like to think about how many lives have been lost in wars fought over oil before making that statement. Not to mention the seven million global deaths each year from air pollution and the death by famine of those whose farmlands have turned into deserts due to global warming. Not sure it’s quite as clear cut as you make out.

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    • HarrogateSpa
      October 14, 2022 at 2:02 pm
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      Those comments are cynical

      Those comments are cynical and demonstrate a failure to grasp the scale of the problem we face and the urgency in tackling it.

      Global heating is a slow-moving disaster. This glacier that threatens a 1.5m sea-level rise is just one aspect of it.

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    • SimoninSpalding
      October 14, 2022 at 2:50 pm
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      The last I heard companies

      The last I heard companies supplying renewable energy to the UK were so profitable the government was planning to cap their income, in contrast to their approach to the entirely reasonable profits being made by oil and gas companies.

       

      Or something

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  12. danhopgood
    October 14, 2022 at 1:25 pm
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    For me, the charge of

    For me, the charge of dangerous driving in the Cycling Mikey case was excessive for the video evidence I’ve seen.   The direct action approach to wrongdoing by Mikey is provocative for some, although I have taken direct action myself on the issue of unsafe parking around schools (without much success).  For me the answer is simply more enforcement.  Rules are made by society, but fair enforcement of those rules is required – by independent  resources (like the Police).  The current lack of control through enforcement is damaging for all of us.

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  13. Hirsute
    October 14, 2022 at 3:35 pm
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    Aldi Ludlow.
    Aldi Ludlow.
    How not to install cycle racks. Hard to fathom the result.

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    • Sriracha
      October 14, 2022 at 3:43 pm
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      An example of this?
      An example of this?

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  14. Hirsute
    October 14, 2022 at 3:39 pm
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    There is no point engaging
    There is no point engaging with a contrarian PBU.

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  15. wtjs
    October 14, 2022 at 3:51 pm
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    Theatrical agent Lyon and

    Theatrical agent Lyon and Martin 73 are both unpleasant pieces of work.

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  16. ktache
    October 14, 2022 at 7:02 pm
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    GANNA!!!

    GANNA!!!

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  17. spen
    October 14, 2022 at 7:20 pm
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    Averdict delivered by a jury

    Averdict delivered by a jury of drivers perhaps.  Was anyone really surprised?

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tomlew 7 hours ago

@Destroyer666 I totally see your point. The good news is there are indeed BBs which use industry-standard bearings. Take Neco, for example - they offer exactly what you want. Maybe the bearings in the set are not perfect, but you can replace them with SKFs later.

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Rendel Harris 8 hours ago

@chrisonabike I was just reading that myself, it seems a bizarre kneejerk reaction before poor Finlay's cause of death has even been fully investigated. What does Mr.Hansen think has been going on, have the manufacturers had the means to make safer, more robust helmets that are just as light and well ventilated but haven't bothered releasing them? Or does he want the peleton racing in motorcycle helmets, because that's the only way there's going to be a chance of meaningful protection in 100 kmh crashes?

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chrisonabike 8 hours ago

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work: AFAICS anti-social consequences are inherent in the business model. Models which seem to work better: advertising (Santander cycles), using bikes to make using another service which is more profitable (or less unprofitable) easier (Dutch OV Fiets). After that it's "local authority subsidises it" and then you're down to "flogging customer data"...

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Destroyer666 8 hours ago

Back in the day square taper bb's rolled on bearings that were considerably larger than inside these Maxhit ones. The ball bearings in these fully serviceable models cost a couple of euros. Don't get me wrong, they had their issues, like poor sealing. But those days, servicing bearings was the norm. The current state seems to be something of an attempt at non-serviceability, where efforts made at making products that you DO NOT have to service are accompanied with products that you CANNOT service. And those two things are mixed in different ways. For example with this Maxhit bearing you pay a crazy amount of money for supposed durability - that you are nonetheless expected to service once a year. And once these bearings wear enough, there is no way to service them anymore - no cups, cones, ball bearings to replace, unlike with the old bb's (sure, it was not THAT easy even with them to e.g. find just cups in bike shop). I guess my point is that while I applaud e.g. Enduro for making "bike specific" bearings, I nonetheless long for products that are just easy to service - that is the key to durability. And that does not have to mean it costs a lot. To prove my point: There is absolutely no reason why Shimano could not manufacture it's ubiquitous 20eur BB-MT501 with easily replaceable industrial standard 6805 bearings (where SKF quality bearings cost about 20eur), for the same cost they manufacture the BB in it's current form. They just chose not to. And I would choose that over crazy expensive bb's with marketing schpiel and small print regarding warranty any day.

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chrisonabike 8 hours ago

He's wildly over the top / backwards about what is a risk to the hard-pressed motorist and local places: those are "other motorists" and "mass motoring" respectively. He's almost right though in that many places - even in the UK - are gradually realising that a great way to save themselves money, improve their places and aid their chances of hitting targets on health, obesity, climate etc. is indeed to slow down motorists, restrict parking and deter (not prevent...) much *private motor* travel.

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chrisonabike 8 hours ago

RIP. According to the president of the Cyclistes Professionnels Associes the first thing they need to look at is ... helmets? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/czxqqlpnx98o Of course this could make perfect sense for a professional sport, perhaps standards haven't kept pace etc. It's certainly a rarefied extremely fast and hazard-rich environment, compared with my experience of normally <20mph utility-and-leisure cycling. But since the main factor seems to have been an uninvolved vehicle on the course this does sound like a convergence with the standard "cycling safety" narrative? ("Can't fix anything else, so what we *can* do is...")

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