bournemouth prom cycling story [ daily echo clickbait cycling hatred again]

I liked it but could have had some more shots of terrified pedestrians running for their lives.

You might as well send it in to them to help add a bit of balance, but I doubt it'll make much difference to the frothing readership.

It's partly a matter of perspective. When you went down the ramp to the prom I clearly saw a cyclist being very considerate and giving the young family crossing the road a wide margin of care. Someone with an anti cycling bias will see, or at least claim to have witnessed, a mother literally snatch her young offspring from the slavering jaws of certain death.

As ever there will be a minority of a'holes zooming down those ramps inconsiderately. You cannot defend every moron who happens to utilise a bicycle. What you can support, if there is sufficient verifiable evidence to demonstrate an actual problem, is the enforcement of appropriate sanctions, in the same way that, hopefully, other antisocial behaviour on the prom is dealt with.

I do chip in to the occasional Bournemouth letter pages, you do have your work cut out with some utter retards on those pages.

lt looks v quiet down there, David, quite late on? 23 May was a Saturday, so I'm suprised.
Chapeau! to your road riding - looked like a fair old clip you were doing. 
yes, send it in, but you've got to be clear what point you want to make in doing so. It maybe the rarity of incidents that drives the complaints.  We live in an uncritical "cars will be cars" world.  
there may be some trolls about in the DE comments column, but I fear many of them are all too real and drive that bad attitude all over town.  It's certainly lively, and I chip in occasionally to give some balance.
It's a pity about the clickbait aspect, but we're watching the gradual decline of professional local news-gathering and reporting, preferring instead our own generally ill-informed and inaccurate accounts on SM. Present company excepted, of course. 
I thought the Jack Crewe letter was an attempt at being constructive, but he can stick his additional two months of ban around the back of his beach hut (that's a joke: if you don't follow the B'mouth news, around this time, lots of visitors were coming, but the public toilets were still closed).  
I especially liked the "serious money" comment - he must live in cloud cuckoo land and/or have very little idea about how much things like that cost to install and maintain. 

I found the vid compellingly interesting. I don't know the area. I can understand why in parts of the vid cyclists wouldn't be welcome. Unless they are at very low speeds. On other parts (where all the parked vehicles are for example) it seems perfectly fine to cycle. Children should be exempt from any 'ban'. I think your advice at the end of the video is best; maintain a low speed. If you show respect you get respect in return. 

I can understand your reluctance to send the vid to the local press if it is used as a magnet for ignorant, hatefilled responses.  Which in the 'social media free speech' era seems to be the way.