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RIP CrippledCyclist
Just saw this dreadful news (below) about CrippledCyclist, aka Heavy Metal Handcyclist. Only knew him from Twitter and his contributions to discussions on road.cc, but he was always good humoured, funny and passionate about active travel and the rights of disabled cyclists. Sincere condolences to his family and friends.
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- Geordiepeddeler 4 hours 24 min ago
Cycling infrastructure does not force drivers to break the law, drivers are the reason they break the law, no one else.
- chrisonabike 4 hours 37 min ago
Ah but taking pictures of things to defy the man (avoid a fine) is righteous. Taking pictures of people to grass on them to the cops (perhaps...
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But getting paid for it is the very definition of professional....
- ktache 6 hours 35 min ago
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- Backladder 7 hours 22 min ago
If you're only looking at the guy in front of you then you're going to crash whatever brakes you have, you need to look beyond them to anticipate...
- jaysa 7 hours 47 min ago
As a woman, this works great for me! My chain broke once, and a kind guy stopped with a chain breaker and sorted it all out for me. We stopped at a...
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Same. I also have gone through a bunch of their tyres, and only the extralight disappointed (torn sidewall) but the standards are fantastic....
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My condolences to his partner, family and friends. I followed him on Twitter. He was incredibly knowledgeable on matters regarding disability cycling and helped a lot of people around those issues.
Aw that's sad news. Thoughts to his family and friends
Thanks for sharing Rendel - all of us at road.cc were really saddened to hear this, I see his last contributions on the Longleat story were as informative and witty as always!
I've been in touch with a friend of his who says a crowdfunder will be set up to raise money for some causes he cared about - I will post details on the forum if and when we get them.
RIP Crippledbiker, you'll be sorely missed.
Doug Paulley has set up a GoFundMe page - he says "fundraising for Wheels for Wellbeing, Transport for All, and Disabled People Against Cuts, in memory of Richard and to keep his work going."
https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-thanks-to-richard-the-heavy-metal-handcyclist
I discovered it via a tweet by Carlton Reid:
https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1508781138558476298
I hope this isn't duplicating anything already posted.
Thoughts to his real life family and friends. He made an impact here, so I can only imagine what people closer to him are going through.
I saw this news on twitter, too. So incredibly sad. RIP
Oh, that's really sad. He was an amazing force for good and taught me a huge amount about mobility and the law. Chatted often on Twitter. Lovely bloke unless you were running a train company
Missed this, and posted the same in the live blog
He was crippledbiker on here
https://road.cc/content/news/longleat-security-tell-cyclist-no-bikes-all...
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